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The Museum of London’s record-breaking year!

This year has been a busy one for the museum with the launch of The Cheapside Hoard and preparations already underway for Sherlock Holmes, and we’re thrilled to announce that as of last week, one million people visited the Museum of London and Museum of London Docklands in just 11 months! This makes 2013/14 a record-breaking year for us and the first time we’ve welcomed so many people in such a short space of time. To put this in perspective, the Museum of London and Museum of London Docklands together welcomed 615,000 people in the twelve months between April 2012 and [...]

WIN a real amethyst!

We can’t believe it – ‘The Cheapside Hoard: London’s Lost Jewels’ is almost over! To mark the closing few weeks of having these dazzling Tudor gems on display, we’ve teamed up with exhibition sponsor Gemfields for one last glittering giveaway. Want to win your very own amethyst? We’ve got a 3.75 carat gemstone to hand over to one lucky jewellery lover – all you have to do is show off your Cheapside inspired spring bling to us using #CheapsideHoard and we’ll enter you into a random draw! Whatever your social media channel of choice – be it Twitter, Instagram, Google+ [...]

Made in London designer profile: Duffy

London serves as a training ground, workshop, market place and inspiration to a large number of jewellery makers. Made in London: Jewellery Now explores the creations and unique vision of the most exciting, imaginative and boundary-pushing jewellers working in the capital today. In this blog series, exhibition curators Beatrice Behlen and Agata Belcen speak to the designers involved in the exhibition and discover what inspires them. Name Duffy In London Since 2005 Studio E2 Favourite place in London Any of London’s old pubs or parks Beatrice/Agata: How did you start becoming interested in jewellery? Duffy: My grandmother was always immaculately presented with a [...]

From saintly to saucy: the medieval badge that wasn’t as innocent as it seemed

Cataloguing the Museum’s collection of medieval pilgrim badges for Collections Online has been a great opportunity for me to look really closely at our objects and sometimes to find out that items are not at all what they appear to be. A great example recently has been a tiny little badge in the shape of a comb. This little badge (no. 8737) was catalogued in 1908 as a pilgrim badge of St Blaise with the following entry: ‘Blaise, Saint; a comb, with double row of teeth, divided by a foliated bar in the centre; 13th-14th century’. It was found at [...]

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