Category: Exhibition Review

This very popular exhibition has lots of information about 1966 to 1970.  Before entering the exhibition you are handed headphones and a devise that automatically changes the music as you go around the exhibition.  Due to the popularity of the exhibition it can be difficult to see everything as it was very crowded.  It has fashions from celebrities of the time, information on music, hippies peace, civil rights and feminist movements, record sleeves and lots more.  There isn’t very much about each exhibit so you don’t get much background.

7/10

The Tate are opening up early at weekends so that members can visit this exhibition between 8 and 10 on Saturdays and Sundays.  I took advantage of this on 19 Feb which was the second weekend of the exhibition.

A lot of other members were also taking advantage of the early opening.  You enter from the side entrance and the only areas that are open are this exhibition, the little Hockley gift shop at the end of the exhibition and the Friends rooms which is apparently open for brunch.

The exhibition is set out into different periods/genres of Hockney’s work with pantinces, phot collages and up to date pictures done on Ipads and IPhones.

7/10

This exhibiton is about the Great Fire of London in 1666. It has examples of items that were burnt in the fire and the types of things that some people tried to save for eample some pepple were seen escaping on boats with their small pianos

 It also mentions Newgate Prison where the prispners had to be evacuated to Southwark but some managed to escape in the process. 

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This photo shows some of the items salvaged from the original St Pauls Cathedral.

The exhibition is educational but small.

7/10

The exhibition shows many maps. It explains how they can help on wars, how they strated to be used for tourism an in films. It doesn’t go in to too much detail due to the volume of maps on show.

7/10

Exhibitions showing South African artifacts and art on the centre of the British Museum.

5/10

The theme this year is India.  It seemed a little less colourful than last years Brazil theme but had some animal models dotted around the greenhouses including a tiger, elephant, monkey and peacock.

7/10

This is a small but interesting exhibition which provides information on what both the children and staff are and how much it cost and has a variety of recipies for gruel (although that wasn’t the only thing they ate).

As the exhibition was on food it might have been an interesting idea of the cafe had sold some of the food as samples.

7/10

The exhibition was a bit more abstract than I was hoping. It had a little bit of information about the history of mental health care but not very much detail on any of it.

4/10

This exhibition has props or replicas and information on a number of war films from across the years.

It is interesting but there isn’t much detail due to the number of films covered.

7/10

Paid for exhibition that looks at colour and Vision in nature. It has cross sections of various animal eyes, stuffed animals and lots of info on colour and eyes in nature.

I didn’t need to pay as I am a member but probably wouldn’t want bother if I had to pay the entrance fee.

4/10