Been to the British Museum many times but, until today, somehow I’ve never been to the Parthenon Marbles, the most symbolic of the wholesale colonial plunder on which the museum is built.
I do love the BM a lot, but, impressive as all the stolen statuary is, I much prefer the galleries of stuff that was dug up in, erm, Britain.
Undoubtedly, the misappropriated masonry is a big draw but it all feels a bit off.
As does the display of actual dead people.
@shakeeb.abu.hamdan and @aurora_engine at @nan_moors_bar_venue_todmorden this afternoon.
Great music and the, almost customary, four normal blokes coming in for Saturday pints and being very confused. Best quotes from the men: ‘is it (a) funeral’ and ‘oh, contemporary music’.
London Tourism… 1-4 Trafalgar Square
5 People looking at Van Gogh
6 Chinatown
7-8 Trafalgar Square
9 Piccadilly Circus
10 people watching the changing of the guard
11 Hamley’s
12 Soho
13-18 British Museum
#london #tourists #colonialplunder #anglosaxon #suttonhoohelmet
