London Stopover
I unexpectedly got to spend part of Saturday in London. I had about four free hours and decided to due a speed tour of the National History Museum, Science Museum, and Victoria and Albert Museum. In addition, the Royal Geographic Society building was open to the public today as part of a special London-wide architectural open house. 
The entrance of the National History Museum
The National History Museum had the most amazing collection of fossils I had ever seen, many dating back to the Golden Age of British exploration
This model of a blue whale was over 100 foot long!
The garden inside the Victoria and Albert
A semi-secret passage...
...that led to a view of sculpture being (un)packed
The Rodin exhibit
Inside one of the meeting halls of the Royal Geographic Society - one can imagine planning expeditions to parts unknown here
posted by Paul Pyzowski @ 12:26 PM
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I don't think I made it to any of these, the 3 days I was in London. My favorite was the National Portrait Gallery. While the British Museum had a huge collection, the descriptions read like an inventory ("column"). At the NPG the cards had a couple of sentences on what was special about that painting, whether it was the brush stroke, the subject matter, how the painting came to the museum, etc. Even with just 3 days in London, I went back a 2nd time.
The first prototype of the Millennium Clock used to be on display at the Science Museum. Timely as I finished Anathem Friday night.
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