Victoria and Albert Museum, Entrance Hall

  

The wonderfully atmospheric entrance hall of the Victoria and Albert Museum.  These images were taken from another fabulous room: Room 141, The McAulay Gallery of Contemporary Ceramics on Level 6, full of cutting edge pieces and site specific installations.

Darwin Centre cocoon, Natural History Museum

Take two children to the superb new interactive section of the Natural History Museum, and what do they want to do - play on their hand-held computers!  The museum did a fabulous talk with a resident entomologist about stick insects.  We had the rare opportunity of petting some live ones, although some of our group passed on it!

The magnificent cocoon structure protects and houses the Museum's most valuable specimen collections.  Designed by internationally renowned C F Møller Architects of Denmark, construction took 28 months and was finished in September 2008.

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