So as an aspiring lottery winner, I decided to visit my future home borough! ;)
As you step down the bus at Royal Albert Hall, you just feel how art is everywhere around you - you've got one of the best music halls in the world quietly sitting there, behind it Royal College of Music, Imperial college of London, and at 'the end' the Natural History Museum/Science museum and Victoria and Albert museum
So finally I visited the Victoria and Albert museum!!!!!!
I loved every inch of it! It's set in the amazing borough of South Kensington (literally behind the Royal Albert Hall) and is a magnificent building that houses an opulent collection of brick-a-brack you can think of.
It had an amazing renaissance sculptures, baroque furniture, Venetian glassware, loads of porcelains figurines and tea sets, modern design bits and bobs. Literally felt like visiting someone's stately home where they have amassed stuff from here and there!!!! It is one of the few places that didn't feel this clinical, nearly hospital-like sense you get from places like Tate, National Gallery, etc.
At the Natural History museum I only visited the dinosaurs sections and the human sections, both intriguing on their own! You can see the whole museum is very CHILD-friendly and accessible, but it was equal fun for parents!
The science museum is a lovely building with science only stuff, from Stephen Hawking, to Vespas and mash potato apparatus :)
Overall a lovely four hours of diverse cultural encounters, with a dash of insanely beautiful buildings and equally exciting exhibits.
