Bramah Tea & Coffee Museum August 6, 2010
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corner of Gainsford Street & Maguire Street, SE1 (020 7378 0222)
London Bridge tube/rail/P11, 15, 42, 47, 78 bus. Open 10am-6pm daily. Admission £4; £3 5s-15s, OAPs, disabled, ES40s; £10 family. Credit AmEx, JCB, MC, £TC, V.
Website: http://www.bramahmuseum.co.uk
Though he’s been in the business for half a century, it was only in the early 1990s that Edward Bramah, a former tea taster, set up this unusual museum to chart the history of tea and coffee drinking. The new premises allow the two infusions to be studied separately, and their important role in British society to be documented. There’s also an impressive collection of coffee makers and teapots (including the world’s largest) and a cafÈ where you can try out the real thing.
Design Museum July 17, 2010
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Butler’s Wharf, off Shad Thames, SE1 (020 7403 6933)
London Bridge tube/rail/15, 78, 100 bus. Open 11.30am-6pm daily (last entry 5.30pm). Admission ?5.50;?4 5s-18s, students, disabled, ES40s; free under-5s. GoSee Card member . Credit AmEx, MC, ?TC, V.
Website: http://www.designmuseum.org
This beautifully
designed 1930s-style, sparkling white building is stark and spacious
within – the perfect setting for a collection of innovative design.
Incredibly user-friendly, the museum consists of just two levels with a
minimum of exhibits. The first floor holds the Review Collection (state-of-the-art innovations from around the world) and the Temporary Exhibition Gallery . Temporary exhibitions for 2000 include Bauhaus Dessau (10 Feb-4 June), an in-depth look at the significance of the period when the Bauhaus was based in Dessau (1925-32), the Life and Work of Buckminster Fuller (15 June-15 Oct) and Five Designs of Mr Brunel (26 Oct-25 Feb 2001).
The Collection Gallery ,
devoted to the study of design for mass production, is housed on the
second floor. Arranged thematically, it concentrates on different types
of product. The car is one such focus – look for the wooden model made
up from drawings by the architect and designer Le Corbusier dating from
1928. There are also early televisions, washing machines, telephones,
chairs (including one designed by Rennie Mackintosh) and a collection
of tableware. Temporary shows in the Collection Gallery during 2000
include Dr Martens Airwair (Mar-May) and Hong Kong Architecture: Aesthetic of Connection (1 June-31 July). The Blue Print Caf? ,
which shares the building, with its balcony overlooking the Thames, is
an appropriately stylish establishment (but be warned, it’s a
restaurant rather than a caf?, with prices to match).
La Mina June 21, 2010
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Calle Obispo #109, entre Oficios y Mercaderes (620216)
Open 24hrs daily. Admission free.
La Mina has a restaurant and two cafés; waiters and bands are shared with Al Cappuccino next door. The patios, located on Plaza de Armas, are a great spot to relax and listen to live son until 11pm followed by boleros until the early hours. The downside is that they can be rather touristy, though. .
Florence Nightingale Museum May 29, 2010
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St Thomas’s Hospital, 2 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 (020 7620 0374)
Westminster tube/Waterloo tube/rail. Open 10am-5pm Mon-Fri (last entry 4pm); 11.30am-4.30pm Sat, Sun (last entry 3.30pm). Admission £4.80; £3.60 5s-15s, OAPs, students, ES40s; £10 family. Credit AmEx, MC, £TC, V.
Website: http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
The world’s most famous nurse is celebrated in the well thought-out displays of this small museum, close to Westminster Bridge. Nightingale’s chief achievement in a long career of social campaigning was to establish nursing as a disciplined profession (indeed, åher lady and the lamp’ care in the Crimea was but a small part of her life’s contribution to medicine); and she set up the first nursing school at St Thomas’s in 1859.
Bartow-Pell Mansion May 20, 2010
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895 Shore Rd at Pelham Bay Park (1-718-885-1461)
Subway: 6 to Pelham Bay Park, then one-mile walk or cab ride. Wed, Sat, Sun noon-4pm. $2.50, $1.25 concessions, under 12 free.
The International Garden Club has administered this 1836 mansion since 1914; the grounds include formal gardens, a fountain and a 19th-century carriage house and stable.
Vinopolis, City of Wine May 4, 2010
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1 Bank End, SE1 (0870 4444777)
London Bridge tube/rail. Open 10am-5pm daily (last entry 4.30pm). Admission ?11.50; ?4.50 5s-18s; ?10.50 OAPs; ?1 discount if booked in advance. Credit AmEx, JCB, MC, ?TC, V.
Website: http://www.vinopolis.co.uk
The motto of this
oenophile’s attraction, which opened in July 1999, is ?Explore, taste,
enjoy’. They got the first two right. You pick up a headset and, later,
a wine glass and embark on a tour of the history of wine across the
world. Huge blow-up photos of vineyards and luxury chateaux set the
scene, but the commentary, from the likes of famous wine experts Jancis
Robinson, Hugh Johnson et al, is made up of soundbites so short that
you don’t feel like you’re learning much. Still, on the plus side,
included in the (not inconsiderable) entry fee are vouchers to taste
five wines, provided by informative servers (try, if you dare, a
Romanian or a Georgian). The much-publicised trip through a vineyard on
a Vespa, is, frankly, a bit of a waste of time. Still, it’s all a good
excuse to drink during the day. There are further attempts to push
booze in your face in the form of a Majestic wine warehouse at the end
of the tour, in addition to a rather good shop selling all manner of
vinous accoutrements (corkscrews, wine racks, books, etc), and gourmet
food.
