It's Museum Day

The lolcats meme has permanently lodged in my brain. Entering a silverwork gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum, I was faced with an exquisite cat. What came to mind?

"I HAS A SHEELD"

Then I had to get a picture of these hoverboarding cats.

In the foyer of the museum the chandelier should have been called "OCD Balloon Twister"
On closer inspection we see that it's made of glass... delicately blown and assembled glass. The wonder of the work lies not in its beauty but in the extravagance of its creation.

Got any spare artworks?


The Natural History Museum had an impressive array of reconstructed dino-skeletons, but the taxidermy sections were looking depressingly faded. The stuffed samples are tatty and can't be replaced. Looking on a meta-level, most of the displays were themselves relics of history. The Science Museum was definitely alive and kicking.