...Because I saw some pictures of a rake (he made some progress)!

Day 36:  Museums.

British Library=Super cool.  Has tons of really old and/or priceless documents such as:

*Magna Carta

*Beowolf

*Handel’s Messiah

*The original hand written & illustrated Alice in Wonderland

*Jane Austen’s writing desk

*Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyere manuscript

*Virginia Wolf’s notebook

*Mendelssohn’s Wedding March

*Lyrics to “A Hard Days Night” written in Lennon’s own hand on the back of his son Julian’s 1^st B-day card

*Mozart’s Marriage contract

*Beethoven’s tuning fork

*Leonardo Davinci’s notes

*Lots of Illuminated manuscripts—beautiful and all hand copied. I can’t believe how perfect and uniform the calligraphy is. Some books were about the size of a deck of cards, and the largest were the size of those big books Rebecca reads at carpet to her firsties.

* Papyrus Codex c. 3rd century

And that’s barely tapping into what we saw!

 At the British Museum

 Posing with the ferrets..."[I'm] a freak!" (name that movie)

 Exterior

British Museum:  Didn’t stay here long.  Just went in quick to see the Elgin marbles….apparently there’s a bunch of stuff we were supposed to see for Bible that we didn’t know about…we only saw the Humanities stuff…will have to make a 2^nd trip.

Sir John Soane Museum:  Very cool.  One of my favorite museums oddly enough.  Architect.  Built this house so he could display his collection of art/architecture/sculptures etc.  Our purpose in going was to look at Hogarth’s satirical (don’t know if that is a real genre) paintings.  The Rake’s Progress (hence my title) and The Election. 

Like always…a busy day!

Xoxo!

P.S. Look where we went today!!! It was a gorgeous day!  So you all should be excited for my next post as it will be full of lovely pictures of lovely England.  

Bonus Question:  Guess what movie and scene was filmed here in Stourhead?  Answer to come...