Twenty free attractions in London
Mar 13th, 2011, 07:46 PM
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 5,579
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Twenty free attractions in London
Nice article on BBC website for a first time visitor and also for the experienced to review.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20...ns-in-london/1
http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20...ns-in-london/1
Mar 14th, 2011, 01:54 AM
#3
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 2,184
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Is there any chance you can list them? As I'm in the UK I can't access the site! Silly license laws!!
<<We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com. >>
<<We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com. >>
Mar 14th, 2011, 02:04 AM
#4
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,588
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Are they the same 20 as here? http://bit.ly/gK4eSH
Mar 14th, 2011, 03:29 AM
#5
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 17,268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I cannot believe anyone can rank the third-rate junk at Tate Modern and ignore the British Library or the Saatchi Collection.
This isn't an anti-modern art rant. The Tate bought most of its modern, non-British collection at the height of its curators' insular philistinism. Charles Saatchi bought his at the height of his often spectacularly good eye. Tate Modern would be a wonderfully impressive building if it held something worth looking at.
But there really can't be any doubt that the art form this country has really excelled in for the past 500 years (apart, of course, from choral singing) is language. And the BL isn't just Britain's greatest museum of it, but the world's. Madrid, Paris and NY have art galleries as good as the National, and Berlin has museums as good as any of ours (and almost as many). No-one else has got a publicly-accessible written word display rivalling the BL's.
This isn't an anti-modern art rant. The Tate bought most of its modern, non-British collection at the height of its curators' insular philistinism. Charles Saatchi bought his at the height of his often spectacularly good eye. Tate Modern would be a wonderfully impressive building if it held something worth looking at.
But there really can't be any doubt that the art form this country has really excelled in for the past 500 years (apart, of course, from choral singing) is language. And the BL isn't just Britain's greatest museum of it, but the world's. Madrid, Paris and NY have art galleries as good as the National, and Berlin has museums as good as any of ours (and almost as many). No-one else has got a publicly-accessible written word display rivalling the BL's.
Mar 14th, 2011, 03:33 AM
#6
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 10,321
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Here's another list of free museums, sites etc:
http://www.londontown.com/London/London_for_Free_2008
http://www.londontown.com/London/London_for_Free_2008
Mar 14th, 2011, 04:33 AM
#7
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 19,881
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Thread
Original Poster
Forum
Replies
Last Post
fishee
Europe
47
Dec 28th, 2006 12:42 PM
