Shockingly, I'd never been to the Horniman Museum before! I went there because there was an art exhibit by Project Pressure called MELTDOWN: Visualizing Climate Change - which amounted to How Many Different Ways can one show a shrinking glacier? - some of which were terrific, especially a large series by Norfolk + Thymann (a Nigerian and a Dane) entitled Shroud, which shows a wrapped bit of a glacier - wrapped to preserve it as a tourist attraction - but deliberately shot to look like funereal drapery carved for a tomb from Carrara marble. The museum itself is extraordinarily lively (for which: read full, very full of lively kids) - but it also caters to them in a very imaginative way. Here are some hopping around on a projected fantasy of a map (periodically large fish swam across the blue).
Outside, the gardens were simply stunning in their rich but bleak winter glory.
They include a dye garden - with skeins of wool dyed from the plants that are grown there.
And then there's a farmer's market on Sundays, too. A stall like this suggests that one's not in California any more - though I don't know which local horticulturalist grew the clementines ...😊
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