Director’s Diary
Did you ever wonder what it is like to run a small museum? I am starting a weekly blog: a mixture of notices and news, hopes, anxieties and declarations. I should say that I don’t lead all the walks,...
View ArticleDirector’s diary 16/10/16
The week ended with some turbulence, and on an interesting note! Our Leverhulme artist in residence is preparing a sound installation in the Grand Entrance Hall, a space which is acoustically very...
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Director’s Diary: America – a loose connection
I am sorry this blog is late. My flight to Tampa, Florida was not without incident, but I am safely on board Norwegian Cruise Line’s ship Jade with two thousand passengers. The ship seems huge and many...
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Director’s Diary: Atlantic crossings
I cannot quite explain my nervousness as we sail from Miami. With a stop at the Azores it will take the ship nine days to cross the Atlantic. The flight is only nine hours, but the distance is the same...
View ArticleDirector’s Diary: Kingdom for a bicycle
The exceptional weather has had a benign effect on Museum activities and visitor numbers this week. As part of London Festival of Architecture, we hosted a debate on Re-usable Buildings and our...
View ArticleDirector’s Diary: Concerted efforts
This week the Fourth Choir concert sold out for Tudor music in the suitably vaulted Grand Entrance Hall. Children from Bowhill Primary enjoyed meeting Brunel in Person and the heritage boat trips were...
View ArticleDirector’s Diary: Howlett’s birthday Pin Up
Happy 186th Birthday Robert Howlett, photographer extraordinaire, born this day! This is the man who snapped IK Brunel on the Isle of Dogs in 1857 and so created the image that fuelled the myth that...
View ArticleDirector’s Diary: Brunel’s Nursery Garden
This week ended Brunel Museum’s fifteenth Summer Playscheme . The children had a good time with craft workshops and in play and ended with a rousing Thames Tunnel Fancy Fair performance for parents,...
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Director’s Diary: Galleria, Ferroviale and the wrong kind of air
I am in Italy, and thinking of Brunel. The tube holds no fears for me, but tunnels under the Alps are just a bit too long for complete peace of mind. Surely we must come out of the darkness soon? This...
View ArticleDirector’s diary: Easter Activities and Journey to America
This holiday week there are children’s activities and craft workshops each day. On Thursday Secret Adventures offer Cinema and cocktails in the underground chamber and there are heritage boat tours and...
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