Pujo el fil per informar de que ja hi ha data per la reobertura del museu: el 22 de novembre. Aquí teniu més informació
de la web:
Museum re-opens 22 November
The new Museum will reopen on 22 November after a two year, £22 million refurbishment and redesign project. It will tell the story of the development of London, its transport systems and the people who travelled and worked on them over the last 200 years. As well as exploring the past, the new Museum will also look at future transport developments and how transport has shaped five other world cities - Delhi, New York, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Stunning new galleries will feature original artworks and advertising posters, and explore the extraordinary design heritage of London`s transport system, as well as London transport at war and the expansion of the capital through the development of the London Underground.
I aquí parlen de la primera exposició que s'hi farà:
Museum Sketchbook: The watercolours and sketches of Bruce Rowling
Date: 22 November 2007 until 30 March 2008
The first exhibition in the new CBS Outdoor Gallery will walk visitors through the two year refurbishment and extension of the Museum through the eyes of artist Bruce Rowling. Supplemented by finds from archaeological investigations, photographs and video, Bruce Rowling's sketchbooks and watercolours describe in detail the week-to-week activities as the old Museum was dismantled, exhibits removed and the building contractors moved in. As buses were driven away, trams swung through the air and massive steel girders delivered, Bruce's drawings recorded the machinery, the men and the mayhem of the building site.
As work progressed, underground cars were threaded back into the building, horse drawn vehicles positioned on the new top floor and roofing cladding swung up into position from the Piazza. Nothing escaped the artist's eagle eye and his drawings evoke strongly the manual labour, the skilled application of all kinds of machinery and the working conditions on site at every stage of the Project. His is also a very human record, showing the effort, the humour, the colour and the poses of people at work.
The Museum is delighted to have this unique artistic record of the huge transformation we have gone through in the last two years. The exhibition will also show a selection of the excavated archaeological remains of seventh and eighth century London, or Lundenwic as it was then called, as well as material from the Georgian and Victorian Turkish baths which once stood on the site. It will also feature photographs and video which round off this record of the realisation of a £22m project. The Museum has commissioned a range of work from Bruce Rowling which will be on display and both original works and limited edition reproductions will be available for purchase by visitors.