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Disciple of Marduk
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Looks good!
Smoke and Mirrors
The exhibition will cover three themes: The Medium, Mentalism and Misdirection. It's all on the website.
As the Wellcome Trust is a health research institute, all their exhibitions are on a health-related theme. Sometimes the criteria are stretched a bit thin! The health aspect here is psychology which is perfectly appropriate.
Must admit, I am SICK with excitement about seeing this. It's about as perfect a theme as anyone could come up with to interest Techy and me, and totally Fortean!
We will be popping along as soon as we can and will give a full report. There's also a book which I might buy.
The Wellcome Collection is wonderful. It's across t'road from Euston Station, kitty-corner to the right. I use the pedestrian crossing directly in front of the station as it's the safest.
Admission is free and there is always LOADS to see.
They also have a posh/expensive cafe. If you want a cheap hot picnic meal or sarnies/snacks instead you might try Sainsburys at the same front end of Euston Station. At the other front end is M&S Food so nobody's starving. You can eat al fresco in the gardens across from the station.
(I visit t'Wellcome whenever I'm in London. Sometimes I just pop to the Reading Room and choose a book to read for an hour. Once I was so interested in the subject of one I'd picked up that I looked it up to buy and found it was already on my Kindle!
I bet nobody would guess the subject: Sex and the Law.)
Smoke and Mirrors
From the seduction of the 19th-century séance through to the sensationalist stunts of contemporary mentalists, we cannot resist the lure of the seemingly impossible. But why? What can magic and conjuring tell us about the human mind?
The exhibition will cover three themes: The Medium, Mentalism and Misdirection. It's all on the website.
As the Wellcome Trust is a health research institute, all their exhibitions are on a health-related theme. Sometimes the criteria are stretched a bit thin! The health aspect here is psychology which is perfectly appropriate.
Must admit, I am SICK with excitement about seeing this. It's about as perfect a theme as anyone could come up with to interest Techy and me, and totally Fortean!
We will be popping along as soon as we can and will give a full report. There's also a book which I might buy.
The Wellcome Collection is wonderful. It's across t'road from Euston Station, kitty-corner to the right. I use the pedestrian crossing directly in front of the station as it's the safest.
Admission is free and there is always LOADS to see.
They also have a posh/expensive cafe. If you want a cheap hot picnic meal or sarnies/snacks instead you might try Sainsburys at the same front end of Euston Station. At the other front end is M&S Food so nobody's starving. You can eat al fresco in the gardens across from the station.
(I visit t'Wellcome whenever I'm in London. Sometimes I just pop to the Reading Room and choose a book to read for an hour. Once I was so interested in the subject of one I'd picked up that I looked it up to buy and found it was already on my Kindle!
I bet nobody would guess the subject: Sex and the Law.)