At the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising (museumofbrands. com),it’s tripdown memory lane wit
mer item cted the world. You certainly identify with many of them, if not all. You’ll mmel cosmetics from the 1890: 70s Chopper Bike, the char of John
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Dennis Severs House (dennissevershouse.co.uk) by Spitalfields Market is not really museum It’s private home but it is open to the public. quite hard to describe what it is actually, except that going through the
10 rooms, you will definitely feel you’ve entered the home of the Jervis family.
The Jervises aren’t real; but Severs wants you to think that to wander from room to room experiencing how they lived in the 18th century, as though they’ve just stepped out for awhile. There is fresh fruit on the table, half drunk cups of tea, jackets draped over chairs and smells of cooked food from the kitchen. It’s an
outing that requires you to fully engage the senses to experience time travel. geBe
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Mutevelian Sophie Finally, what better way to end your London museum outing than to immerse yourself in lush greenery? The Garden Museum (gardenmuseum.org.uk) is truly labour of love. Beautiful and tranquil, with the Thames surging past its door, the focus point of the museum is the outdoor knot garden tended by their small horticultural team of staff and volunteers. The knot garden is significantly historicalas it includes species introduced by John Tradescant the Elder and Younger, prominent gardeners and horticulturists of the 16th and 17h centuries respectively. Plants such as the scarlet runner bean, red maple and tulip tree can be traced back to the Tradescants, and they also add lush and beauty to the centre of London. The museum organises three main temporary exhibitions annually, often bringing new light to how the public views gardens and its societal impact. Royal Brunei Airlines flies London daily via Dubai
Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2015 Jan-Feb, pages 27-30. Text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected; spelling may differ from the printed edition.
