Horniman Museum...review

[eater81]

Just thought I'd come on here and mention what a pleasant afternoon I had at the Horniman museum yesterday.(Sunday). The gardens were lovely and many of the museum exhibts were absoultely fascinating. I was genuinely surprised at the scope of the natural history section (check out the bat skeletons) and the aquarium took me off to far flung foreign seas.

Wholeheartedly recommended and comes at the extortionate cost of..................fook all!

[siousxiesue]

One of my favourite places in all of London, I'm always recommending it! Go in summer for the flowers too...Wonder if I can have my ashes scattered there....

[KidKruger]

Top museum - the bee hive is much reduced as the colony dies off for winter, check all the dead bodies in the exit pipe which the remaining bees have removed from the colony, they only dump 'em outside when the weather is warmer so that they don't die themselves...

[Roll Deep]

Upon finishing my annual Grand Tour of the continent. I like to sit in a summer evenings retreating embers, amongst the Hornimans flower terraces and make a formal account of my pilgrimage to Rome in time for the Sunday supplements.

On hearing the wardens closing bell, my soul simmers on a recurring reassurance so gratefully aknowledged - You're always as young as you feel.

[HAL9000]

Whatever you're on, can I have some?

[KidKruger]

Yeah skin-up a fat one and share it you tight person. Don't just wave it in front of us like that !!

[Roll Deep]

If I've learnt one thing from discovering this topical message board, its that insinuation is rife.

[Nero]

Retreating embers, absent apostrophes, wayward full stops and elbowing-in hyphens. I'm weeping, R Deep.

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[Nero]

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[katie1997]

I really like the Horniman Museum - especially the upstairs gallery.

Went there last week when I had a day off. Love the gardens too.

[MrBen]

Good to have nearby but the Victorian glass cases of stuffed animals now look like some kind of freak show. Does anyone else find these exhibits freaky? Dead cats pickled in brine anyone? The ghostly eyes of a dead monkey forever staring in silent anguish? Cases of dusty lifeless butterflies? Its time has passed surely. Nice gardens though....

[SeanMacGabhann]

yes yes but in a good way!!

Not enough freakiness in the world.

rather than belonging to a previous time, it's a rare and wonderful link to the past

But if you want to go down the "had it's time" route, have a look at ITV weekday mornings after 6am

[Jeremy]

There are a couple of cool things in there, but the stuffed creatures, butterflies, etc didn't really do it for me.

[katie1997]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Good to have nearby but the Victorian glass cases

> of stuffed animals now look like some kind of

> freak show. Does anyone else find these exhibits

> freaky? Dead cats pickled in brine anyone? The

> ghostly eyes of a dead monkey forever staring in

> silent anguish? Cases of dusty lifeless

> butterflies? Its time has passed surely. Nice

> gardens though....

* shakes head in despair *

no, no, no - its what is so fabulous about that museum, its very educational and interesting.

what next? the fossil specimens are 'too old' and not in keeping with the times ?!

[SimonM]

Well I loved the recent monsters exhibition - well scary! And the new aquarium is nice...

And oh how I covet that conservatory!

[*Bob*]

Couldn't we do away with all the 'old hat' stuff and - instead - blow a few million pounds on glass case with a plastic gibbon in it - whose eyes light-up when you press a big red button on the front of the case?

That's that future.

[katie1997]

a glass case sounds a bit *dangerous* though....someone could get hurt.

probably best not to mention the conservatory. oops.

[*Bob*]

The glass has to be very expensive in order to comply with the current regs.

Essentially, if you were to fire a frozen chicken (with giblets) into the glass at around 300mph and it showed any sign of cracking, it would be deemed unfit for purpose.

[david_carnell]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Couldn't we do away with all the 'old hat' stuff

> and - instead - blow a few million pounds on

> glass case with a plastic gibbon in it - whose

> eyes light-up when you press a big red button on

> the front of the case?

>

> That's that future.

Surely lit eyes are a wasted opportunity Bob. Given a gibbon's bulbous posterior I would suggest an illuminted derriere would be more entertaining to the brain-dead masses incapable of appreciating old-style taxidermy.

[RosieH]

Taxidermy-me a fricking yeti Carnell, not some poxy mouse, and THEN I'll be impressed.

I like the shrunken heads though - do they still have those?

[*Bob*]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Surely lit eyes are a wasted opportunity Bob.

> Given a gibbon's bulbous posterior I would suggest

> an illuminted derriere would be more entertaining

> to the brain-dead masses incapable of appreciating

> old-style taxidermy.

I couldn't disagree more.

Gibbon.. eyes.

If it's an illuminated arse you're looking for, then look to the baboon.

[annaj]

Oh, come on Rosie, what about the Walrus?

Or don't that impress you much?

[annaj]

*Bob* that looks a lot like an Orangutan, which is a Great Ape, not a Gibbon.

Honestly. Sloppy.

[david_carnell]

@ *Bob*

*Doffs cap in realisation of lack of zoological knowledge*

I'm in awe, Sir.