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Some culture- British Museum 'Museum of the Mind' exhibition- anyone interested?

Our Lady of The Two Towers

20:29 / 17.04.03

How far back do your memories go?
The Museum of the Mind: Art and memory in world cultures

17 April - 7 September 2003
Admission Free

To celebrate out 250th anniversary, this major display incorporates the whole Museum and its collection. At its heart 60 key objects illustrate the subject of memory across different cultures and time. The exhibition celebrates the Museum itself as a receptacle of memory and explores the concepts of portraiture, identity, ritual, currency, funerary and commemorative sculpture, shrines and festivals. Souvenirs and memorabilia from before the 4th millenium BC are featured along with evidence of deliberate attempts to distort and efface memory.
Official Site.

Well, it's got me interested. And seems like a Barbelithy kind of thing. So, would anyone care to join me? I was planning on going on Sunday the 27th April, with optional filthpubbing afterwards

Kit-Cat Club

20:51 / 17.04.03

Hey, we could also take the opportunity of seeing some of the few Mesopotamian artefacts still in public collections after the looting in Iraq...

[I dunno whether I'll be around or not, but if I am it might be a nice thing to do with a Sunday]

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:24 / 18.04.03

That sounds smart- not sure I can make the 27th, though.
I love the BritMus- it's probably my favourite place in London.

pointless and uncalled for

10:15 / 18.04.03

I shall put it in my diary.

What time can i pencil you in for?

Bill Posters

11:24 / 18.04.03

Yeah, I'm up for dat.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:07 / 18.04.03

How's about 2 p.m. for you crazy kids?

Tryphena Absent

18:32 / 18.04.03

I might. I might not.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:55 / 24.04.03

Just bumping this up to get any other little teases, and will be waiting outside Gosh comics in Russell Street at 2 pm as it's probably easier than the large entrance to the Museum.

Bill Posters

10:00 / 26.04.03

I too am bumping this, 'cos it's tomorrow. I'll be there if i can, but don't wait for me, 'cos I may not be able to get there. Oh and just supposing i can't get there but want a drink later on, will folx be in a specific pub aftywards? The Princess Louise, possibly?

pointless and uncalled for

10:24 / 26.04.03

I can't bump this up but will be attending.

If we go to a pub, can we go to one that has an alternative to filthbeer. I know this is lith heresy but that's that.

Tryphena Absent

11:28 / 26.04.03

I still might or might not or now might just turn up at the pub. Sorry- hopeless at the moment but likely will not be in vicinity of Barbelith so will probably ring someone or something.

Bill Posters

12:54 / 26.04.03

In that case Potus, d'ya wanna name a local pub that everyone knows or at least can find easily? There's The Plough on Museum St, for eg. It's not the most spacious, but it ain't filthbeer. And Aleister Crowley used to drink there.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

08:15 / 27.04.03

Right, as no-one seems inclined to make a decision I'm going to say Yes, The Plough on Museum Street.
Your map milady?

pointless and uncalled for

09:44 / 27.04.03

Sorry, my knowledge of pubs in the area is fairly limited. Guess I don't spend enough time drunk in the presence of a bunch of clever stuff. Maybe I should drink more filthbeer.

Ganesh

10:16 / 27.04.03

Or get yourself some EDUCATION in stout yeoman-friendly ales.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

10:19 / 27.04.03

Ooh get her, etc. etc.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

05:48 / 28.04.03

Well, that was quite fun actually, the inside of the BM I hadn't seen before and looks very nice. A word of warning to anyone else planning to go, the exhibition is disappointingly small, so make sure you have something else to do, like we did by going to the pub afterwards, where I found out how even a few pints is a bad idea when you've still got a cold and are tired, Bengali in Platforms and Anna had a mutual appreciation society over one another's coats and B.i.P decided to try and spill everyone's pint.

And if anyone want's to know Flyboys PIN number it's... oh arse! I've forgotten!

Regrettable Juvenilia

06:51 / 28.04.03

Please, someone, take my PIN number and withdraw all my money and keep it in a box under your bed so I don't spend it all doing foolish, foolish things like getting monstered by booze on a Sunday...

Gypsy Lantern

07:25 / 28.04.03

At its heart 60 key objects illustrate the subject of memory across different cultures and time.

This sounds like an episode of Sapphire & Steel waiting to happen..

Bear

08:00 / 28.04.03

Oh yeah you where all full of culture when I met up with you.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

08:14 / 28.04.03

cultures possibly, quite why Guiness hasn't been outlawed by every civilised country I don't know. Sorry I had to leave when I did, I had to go home and be really quite ill, again.

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:47 / 28.04.03

Can I just in all seriousness apologise for the state I was in by the end of yesterday and any grievances I may have caused... I know it's a running joke that some of us get more pissed than others, but there's a point at which it stops being funny, and I seem to have an unerring ability to fuck things up when they're at their best. Sorry.

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