Comparing 'York Castle Museum' with 'London Museum'
 

Can anyone share their experience by comparing these two? <BR><BR>We have been through the York Castle Museum and thoroughly enjoy the 'living museum' concept. <BR><BR>The website for the London museum dwells more on quantity than quality which is a little off putting. For example... we have 11,000 pieces of cutlery.... and 700 pilgrimage badges.<BR><BR>I am hoping this is more a case of misplaced website priorities than a display room with 11,000 pieces of cutlery.

They are two of my favorite museums anywhere.<BR><BR>The Museum of London is definitely not a "warehouse" of artifacts. The interpretive exhibits are wonderful. Except for special exhibits, the entire museum is laid out chronologically from pre-history up to the modern day.<BR><BR>The York museum pre-dates the Museum of London and there are a lot of similarities in the ways things are displayed/explained.

<BR>I have visited both museums,there is no comparision.<BR><BR>Museum of London is far more rich in history,quality and quantity of its collections. I have visited more than half a dozen times,still find more things to learn.<BR><BR>Perhaps the website is misleading.

My parents put that museum on our must-see list right along with the Tower & British Museum. They like those displays that walk you through history. Their website didn't excite me either, but people who have actually been there recommend it.

Thank you for your three informed responses. It is reasuring to find that there are still helpful people out there sifting through the postings.

As a great fan of the Museum of London and someone who works with websites I was a bit surprised by Rand's initial comments on the MoL site - it seemed so out of keeping with what I know of the Museum itself, which was borne out by the comments of others above. <BR><BR>So I checked the site again with a new eye, and I can only think Rand must have done a search which somehow led into the site through the information on the collections rather than the top-level menu (maybe their 'home' button needs to be more prominent).<BR><BR>Go in at the top (www.londonmuseum.org.uk), and you have immediate access to information about the galleries, exhibitions and events, which seem to me to be a fair reflection of the welcoming and involving experience that a visit to the Museum is. Try the online Victorian Walk for example, or some of the earlier 'online' exhibitions, covering both prehistory and more recent events like the Blitz.