citylikeyou — Grant Museum — London by Jessica Sarah Rinland

London / Museum

Founded in 1828 the museum houses around 67,000 specimens many of which are now extinct or endangered. My favorite is the skull of a Bottlenose Whale from 1860.

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Grant Museum, 21 University Street, City of London, London, United Kingdom

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Current city: London

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Jessica Sarah Rinland is a filmmaker based south of London. She also works part-time as a projectionist in the city. Her work has been broadcasted, exhibited and screened at various film festivals including NYFF, BFI London Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 and a collaborative screening with Jonas Mekas at Curzon Soho Cinema in London.

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London / Bar

If you like cocktails and pink neon lights, Tonight’s Josephine is definetly a perfect spot to spend your night!

London / Museum

A treasure trove in the The City of London. The Archive of London. Strongrooms hold kilometres of shelving; boxes of matter that has somehow been catalogued and categorised in a traceable manner by the public, for academic, genealogical and other research. This beautiful book is from a box on Epping Forest. On the same visit, I looked through photographs of Blitz singsongs in Bethnal Green Underground station, 1980s anti-Thatcher / pro-GLC gig posters and paper concertina optical models of the Crystal Palace.

London / Place

London has plenty of beautiful cemeteries. Brompton is one of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ and has many interesting tombs. It was also an inspiration of names for Beatrix Potter and the resting place of Emmeline Pankhurst.

London / Park

A great place to wander get lost and and escape the city.

London / Architecture

Even if you have seen it hundreds of times it will still stop you in your tracks. A great piece of architecture and apparently the largest brick structure in Europe.