All about museums, including medical museums and curios.
London: one of the most historic cities on the planet, with a grisly past to match. Travel Darkly explores ten of the best dark destinations in the UK’s capital…
The new First World War Galleries at the Imperial War Museum in London open 19th July 2014, with the reopening of Imperial War Museum itself. We interviewed James Taylor, the lead curator, about bringing this ambitious project to life as we walked around…
A flash of lightning as they cut the body of Jeremy Bentham, his head stolen and replaced… why not visit the Utilitarianism-toting philosopher preserved in his case at UCL? It’s free. Travel Darkly spoke to curator Nick Booth about the man behind the, erm, man…
On the anniversary of his death, Travel Darkly went to explore the story of Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, and see a replica of his skeleton at the Royal London Hospital Museum and Archives…
Oliver Cromwell’s family lived at what is now Oliver Cromwell’s House before and during the English Civil War. As well as having excellent displays relating to the history of the period, it is supposedly haunted. Travel Darkly went to investigate…
University College London’s Grant Museum is near the main university building (where Jeremy Bentham’s Auto Icon is displayed). The museum has jars of lizards, snakes and moles as well as a cloned domestic cat. Travel Darkly took a look inside…
Boy meets girl, falls in love. Sadly the girl doesn’t love the boy back. Boy finds out girl has a new boyfriend and throws a large stone at girl’s head. Ends up hanged at Bristol’s New Gaol. After his death, the whole affair is documented in a rather grisly book which can be visited at Bristol’s M Shed…
The history of mental illness in Bristol has been explored at Glenside museum, housed in the old lunatic asylum’s chapel. Travel Darkly went to have a look…