CABINETS OF CURIOSITIES

With just one day to go until we set up for our first trade show our samples are made and safely packaged away, and as the headache of all the new paperwork we've had to produce has subsided we thought we would settle down and share some details, and more importantly photographs, of a day trip we took over the Christmas break.

We didn't venture far afield - it's nice to find good things that are on your doorstep - straight to the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, London. This is one of those places that Mum has spoken of having visited as a young girl and thoroughly loving for its eclectic mix of curiosities. As children we never visited (no idea why?!) but I suppose it must often get overlooked as a small and independent museum in the suburbs, but that's exactly why you should go and visit.

As creatives there's nothing we love more than a museum. Natural hoarders ourselves with a curiosity for anything visual, it sometimes feels like the big sights in London have loosened the emphasis on cabinets full of displays and redirected it towards children and computers - it's wonderful to see an object in 3D but I still want to see the original object too! This is where the Horniman Museum is different, it focuses on displaying the weird and the wonderful with complimentary technology alongside exhibits not instead of!

I took hundreds of photographs when we visited (their natural history section was particularly good!) so I have included a few of my favourites for you all...