Museum ofLondon, learning (Museum of London)

Member Name: logberg

Product:	Museum of London
Date:	17/08/05 (84 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Extremely well presented exhibitions

Disadvantages: None

Everything London interests me.
From unbelievable, ancient old relics to the Lord Mayor's coach, the Museum of London holds plenty of surprises for anyone visiting for education, entertainment or research.

London Museum is definitely well planned for journeying through the evolution of one of the world's biggest cities; clearly showing and outlining in a ''user-friendly'' way just about everything you need to know about London, up to the early 1900s. (Not sure of the exact cut-off year, sorry!)

I found the attention to detail quite amazing. I learned so much I never knew and recommend people visit just to get a perspective of how the Thames has, and is, so integral in the evolution of London in terms of geographical, environmental and and social factors.

Highlights for me were the costume sections, the little olde shoppes corner, the Fire of London, the Lord Mayor's coach and the focus on the vast Roman influence.

The beautifully presented, internal courtyard has plants from yesteryear and it is so neat to see how they survive and provide an oasis of calm, right there in the middle of London.

Museum of London is easy to roam around, lots of information readily to hand and quite honestly you spend hours there and need to go around again to take it all in.

London Museum is a modern presentation of how life was and is worthy of your time and local support so it will continue to grow; to provide just the right balance of history and learning.

My only disappointment is that the history of London stops before the Second World War and I would have loved to experience this era and times since.

The Museum of London was not on my first list of visits but it should have been.

Summary: Museum of London, showing so well, it how it was