A mongoose would've been a wonderful pet to have in Egypt. They'd protect the family from venomous snakes, like cobras and asps, as well as disease spreaders like mice and rats. Plus, they're adorable and pretty smart. 😊
Just a little FYI for those interested. I am fairly sure that the 'Shew Stone' in the John Dee Collection is called a 'Tezeat' or 'The Tezeat' in the ancient Aztec language. It was used exactly for what John Dee used it for, by the Aztecs as well. It was a tool to see the future. One would peer into the shiny surface of the 'Tezeat' and they would ultimately be able to see what would happen in the future. An extremely interesting object for sure. John Dee was a bit ahead of his time, I think. Oddly enough, in doing my own family tree and getting very far back, I recently found out that John Dee would have been my great grand uncle. Like my 11th or 12th great grand uncle. Also, one of my other 11th great grandmother's, was Agnes Waterhouse, believed to be the first woman in England to be burnt at the stake for Witchcraft! Magic and Alchemy seem to run in my extended family. Thank you so much, Jessica, for this fabulous tour of some of England's and the World's greatest and strangest relics and treasures. I am wishing I could join you in person for a tour of this most excellent and fabulous museum. Perhaps afterwards, we could go grab some lunch, and partake in some delicious 'Mumia' for our meal. I am kidding, of course! I could spend days in a museum like that, but alas, I am stuck in America for now. Take care, thanks again and all the best!
Thank you SO much for your videos! I have only visited the British Museum once - only one day - and I knew them that I could spend months there, absorbing everything as best I could. Sadly, I've not been back, but your videos make me feel as if I have. Keep it up, please!!
I’m working my way through your vids; thank you for all the work you’ve done to make them. I was a museum worker myself for many years. However, your association with the BM by occupation or free lance has entitled you with a far greater number of curiosities! Carry on, my dear!
@@TheMuseumGuide yes but they still have it, just not displayed. I imagine over the years it will eventually be displayed again. You were clear, I wasn't.
I just found this video because TH-cam’s algorithm served it up, and enjoyed it immensely! I’m sure ANY museum tour you decide to film, will be worthy of watching… (Once I’m on a new iPad I’ll subscribe). Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us in a non-academic way, and do take good care!
Loved the fact that they kept the skull even though it might be a fake and also got really surprised to know that the crystal probably came from my country! As a nerd, I loved this video!
I'm new but I've grown to appreciate your broad base of knowledge and your "taste" in subject matter. Your points of view are refreshingly free of the cobwebs of his story (history)!
I never subscribed to a channel so fast before! I love these videos. A deep dive video about John Dee would be awesome! And then a more contemporary person, Aleister Crowley maybe?
The Hunterian Museum, also in London, has some pretty strange & weird things. I didn't think I was the squeamish type, but when I exited after my visit in 1996, I had to have a bit of a sit-down on the entrance steps to recover my equilibrium, ha!
The Enlightenment gallery reminds me the original gallery in the Australian Museum, on College Street Cromer in the CBD. Right next to our very own Hyde Park! The old gallery has an upper gallery connected by these wonderful old Victorian style stairs, steep and tight. My favourite part of the museum as a child. When my brother was little, we would sometimes come into town to visit the museum on a weekend, because there was free-entry. I love that gallery, with its displays of butterflies, insects, animal skeletons, and I think it lead into a Grotto of gemstones. The other favourite part was the mummies of course, and now I wish I had paid more attention to their stamp collection!
Great video! Thank you. There's another cultural subtext to Banksy calling it Peckham Rock. There's an episide of an old sitcom, Only Fools and Horses, where the central character, a working class chancer, bottles tapwater and calls it Peckham Spring to upsell it to Yuppies.
I'm so glad I subscribed to your Channel. I love your dark sense of humor it makes me literally giggle throughout each video I've seen of yours including this one, thank you.
I’m working through all of Jessica’s videos again to catch those I didn’t “like” before and to hit the thumbs up. The videos remind me of a holiday my mum and I took before I was married where we set out an agenda for all the museums we wanted to see and any spooky things therein. Thanks for bringing back that wonderful memory Jessica. My hubby and I did it years later and watching your videos show us what we missed. Sadly my darling hubby is now too ill to be able to do that again as even the hour flight down would overwhelm him. Jessica,t have you a patrol or community?
Another brilliant video! I like how you've made the British Museum easier to grasp when it's so huge. Loved the section about John Dee. The hand of glory in the Whitby Museum is probably the most macabre thing I've ever seen in a museum. 😬
Already in love with this channel, dont have the money to visit the museums i want to see, but youve seen quite a few :) thanks for sharing with everyone!
My Grandfather, after retiring as a policeman took a job as a security guard at the British Museum.He didn't like the Egyptian Room and particularly was wary of 'Ginger' on night patrols. He retired in the late 1960's. I still have some buttons from his uniform.
@@TheMuseumGuide He was a WW1 veteran and served through 1914-19 with occasional time off for them to patch him up from shrapnel wounds or being gassed. Normal stuff back then. He knew there was likely to be another war made sure he was in a reserved occupation which the police were. I also have his WW1 medals, his stripes/bars for being wounded , his certificate of debobilisation and his civil defence medal from WW2. I'm of an age where I had grandparents and other relatives in WW1, now all long gone.
@The Museum Guide, I would love a series of history and tours of the whole magick movement from the late 19th to early 20th century, including Alistair MacDonald and the Golden Dawn, etc... I don't dabble in it myself, but as a lifelong student of human beliefs, this period I think has deeper influence on our world today than most people are aware. And being mysterious and creepy sometimes, it seems right up your alley!
John Dee lived in Manchester in what in now Chethams School of Music 1421, I work in the building and am always looking out for his ghost….maybe one day!
Had to subscribe immediately. 🤩This was such an interesting video. Thanks for sharing because I doubt I’d ever make it to this museum, but I’d certainly love to!😊
I know I'm late to the party, but I've just discovered your channel, and I have to say... I'm loving all the wonderful weirdness! ♥ It's quickly becoming one of my go-to channels when I'm surfing TH-cam. :) Thank you for all the strange and informative content! Keep up the great work! :) It seems that genuine documentary-style videos are harder and harder to find. Everything seems to be AI voiced now. It's really refreshing and so SO enjoyable to have a real person take us through the stories of these things! Subscribed and grateful. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Can't wait for your video's to come out. Love your take on the museums and enjoy them immensely. We are taking our first and hopefully not last trip abroad soon. I have England as my next go to spot. Trying to work in the things I would love to do with my budget. Keep it up - oh and when you ask if we would like a tour of "?" museum or area the answer from me will always be yes!! Yes, Yes, Yes. I was the only kid I knew that would rather tour a museum than party.
Hello--Yes, I'd like you to show us a cursed gemstone from the museum. It was actually given to the museum in the 19th century with a letter telling of all the bad luck connected with it. It's not on public display but is kept (along with the note) in the collection of stones. This stone has been referred to by Richard Forty in his book on his long-term connection as a researcher at the museum. I'd also like an update on the British Museum ghost situation---any new sightings or experiences reported by workers, guards, or the public as of 2023? Also, I'm a great fan of Dee and Kelley and their adventures and I'd love to see any video you might make on them. Many thanks! Jesse Glass (I love the British Museum!). Jesse
I absolutely LOVE your videos… However…..I waited for Lindow Man! I know you will cover him. When I was in the British Museum w/ my sister, we asked for the “Bog man” & the guides were like “ BOG man?!” Lol❤
Hi Jessica! Thanks so much for your fantastic videos. I was wondering if you could tell me what the difference is between museum curation and museum interpretation departments? Thank you!
What I would give to have a look! Although, to be fair, it’s all listed online. It’s always such a disappointment for me when I find an amazing weirdo object and then realise it’s not on display. 😔
@@TheMuseumGuide The Ashmolean was closed when I was there. As was Westminster and the Mummy's of the British Museum. It was all getting makeovers for the Millennium. Everything was covered in scaffolding and Hi Vis Orange fencing and cones. I knew it would look better, but was a disappointing trip because it was the ugliest city I'd ever seen. lol Only because of the scaffolding and fencing. I was there in '99 to see if I could donate a kidney to my British friend.
Thank you so much for your museum tours! I went to the British Museum once, but it was just too crowded to see much at all. Most of the interesting objects I couldn´t even get to without being rude or pushy. I left and it made me sad. There is a child labour museum in London as well. Prison museum is also worth a visit for interesting displays. Toy museum is another idea or medical museums. So many interesting museums available. Maybe you could cover those if you haven´t already. I just found ypur channel and am only 4 hours in binge watching. :D
Back in the 1980s some artists I was slightly acquainted with snuck a small sculpture into the local art museum. It depicted the artist carving himself from a block of clay. They had it with a fake description card and fake acquisition number. I seem to recall it was found as a phony piece only a day or two after it was placed in the museum.
I wonder if anyone ever sees any paranormal activity at these museums! All that death.. removed mummies from burial sites… I can’t get behind the idea of ghosts until I hear that they’ve appeared in places like this 😂
This was fun! I wondered if there might be pieces of all Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in the British Museum. Do you think there are? Could you do that tour?
@@TheMuseumGuide Auckland museum .. te papa in Wellington is huge and has lots of oddities and history .. lots of smaller museums and history places depends where ya going .. if ya like creepy things or being scared .. spookers on Auckland is fab it's like a live haunted house and maze built on an old psychiatric hospital .. creepy and spooky and prob ghosts nearby lol
"Shew" is pronounced like "show" and is an older English spelling of this same word. A modern day example that has kept this long "o" sound and "ew" spelling is "sew". Given what he tried to use it for, "show stone" would be the more accurate name for this object.
The Crystal Skull is still a beautiful piece! Well shaped, accurate, polished.. ❤ the FeeJee mermaid, or one like it, may have been a very well made mix of a fish and a kind of monkey or small primate. Nice rings! Got to see a mummy exhibit some years ago. Not just from Egypt but S. America, Europe, and one or two other places. Incredible to see! What is the strangest object (in a a curio / antique shop) you have seen and could have bought? Saw a preserved full length human arm in an antique shop. Yes it was for sale, but I didn't buy it!
Great video. I've been around the British museum loads of times and I haven't seen all of these objects. I'll make sure to seek them out next time I go. Narrowing the many, many strange items in the museum down to 8 must have been quite a challenge. Weird how many prehistoric mummies turn out to have died violently- Gebelein Man, Lindow Man, Otzi... The distant past could be very disturbing.
The Banksey thing is hysterical! Tell the museum to bring out of storage artefacts that they don't know what they are. Why Not? Call the room WE DONT F*ing KNOW??
A mummified Egyptian Mongoose makes sense, it would be associated with killing vermin, venomous spiders and snakes etc. Definitely a must have pet I would think.
The FeeGee mermaid.. is the head if a small monkey & a stuffed fish. A lot of fish were opened &:splayed, dried out to look like a skeletal half fish/being oddity. (They made them for sale to school kids on trips in the 70s)
I got to the Museum at opening time, and started on the top floor. Was 2 floors down, feeling hungry, starting to think "oh it must be nearly lunchtime" ... It was 5pm. Is the bound foot (complete with bones) still there?
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A mongoose would've been a wonderful pet to have in Egypt. They'd protect the family from venomous snakes, like cobras and asps, as well as disease spreaders like mice and rats. Plus, they're adorable and pretty smart. 😊
Good point!
Are they called mongooses or mongeese?
@Sk8Betty. don't know, but I'm digging on the idea that the babies are Mongoslings, so...🤷♀️😜
Good ol’ Riki-Tiki-Tavi. Kipling
@@Sk8Bettty it’s mongooses. ;)
Just a little FYI for those interested. I am fairly sure that the 'Shew Stone' in the John Dee Collection is called a 'Tezeat' or 'The Tezeat' in the ancient Aztec language. It was used exactly for what John Dee used it for, by the Aztecs as well. It was a tool to see the future. One would peer into the shiny surface of the 'Tezeat' and they would ultimately be able to see what would happen in the future. An extremely interesting object for sure. John Dee was a bit ahead of his time, I think.
Oddly enough, in doing my own family tree and getting very far back, I recently found out that John Dee would have been my great grand uncle. Like my 11th or 12th great grand uncle. Also, one of my other 11th great grandmother's, was Agnes Waterhouse, believed to be the first woman in England to be burnt at the stake for Witchcraft! Magic and Alchemy seem to run in my extended family. Thank you so much, Jessica, for this fabulous tour of some of England's and the World's greatest and strangest relics and treasures. I am wishing I could join you in person for a tour of this most excellent and fabulous museum. Perhaps afterwards, we could go grab some lunch, and partake in some delicious 'Mumia' for our meal. I am kidding, of course! I could spend days in a museum like that, but alas, I am stuck in America for now. Take care, thanks again and all the best!
Thank you for sharing! I hope to do a video just about John Dee very soon. :)
@TheMuseumGuide please do!!!
Thank you SO much for your videos! I have only visited the British Museum once - only one day - and I knew them that I could spend months there, absorbing everything as best I could. Sadly, I've not been back, but your videos make me feel as if I have. Keep it up, please!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m working my way through your vids; thank you for all the work you’ve done to make them. I was a museum worker myself for many years. However, your association with the BM by occupation or free lance has entitled you with a far greater number of curiosities! Carry on, my dear!
Thank you for watching!
I love that Banksy is immortalized now, the piece will live on in the museum. That's amazing
Oh, maybe I wasn’t clear! It was removed from the museum upon discovery, but remounted for a temporary exhibition.
@@TheMuseumGuide yes but they still have it, just not displayed. I imagine over the years it will eventually be displayed again. You were clear, I wasn't.
I just found this video because TH-cam’s algorithm served it up, and enjoyed it immensely!
I’m sure ANY museum tour you decide to film, will be worthy of watching… (Once I’m on a new iPad I’ll subscribe). Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us in a non-academic way, and do take good care!
Thank you so much, Nan!
i'd love to see 'obscure muse sums worth a visit'
Loved the fact that they kept the skull even though it might be a fake and also got really surprised to know that the crystal probably came from my country! As a nerd, I loved this video!
As a fellow nerd, thank you!
I'm new but I've grown to appreciate your broad base of knowledge and your "taste" in subject matter. Your points of view are refreshingly free of the cobwebs of his story (history)!
I never subscribed to a channel so fast before! I love these videos. A deep dive video about John Dee would be awesome! And then a more contemporary person, Aleister Crowley maybe?
I need to find out if another museum holds more John Dee objects - do you know of a Crowley Museum?
PLEASE! Any and all tours of the strange and macabre!
I think I’ve found my niche! ;)
Coming up next - Wonders of the Natural History Museum, followed by the London Necropolis Railway and Woking Cemetery!
I'd love to see her do a ghost hunt too tour a creepy old haunted place .. be brilliant 👍
Yes! If you arent supposed to like, then I love. Bring on the morbid items.
Good comments Ms Vickie! Agreed! ❤️🌹😻
Being a museumaholic myself....LOVE your site!!!
Thank you!
The Hunterian Museum, also in London, has some pretty strange & weird things. I didn't think I was the squeamish type, but when I exited after my visit in 1996, I had to have a bit of a sit-down on the entrance steps to recover my equilibrium, ha!
I love the Hunterian! It’s been closed in London since around 2015 (Glasgow is still open) but is set to reopen, finally, next year.
The Enlightenment gallery reminds me the original gallery in the Australian Museum, on College Street Cromer in the CBD. Right next to our very own Hyde Park! The old gallery has an upper gallery connected by these wonderful old Victorian style stairs, steep and tight. My favourite part of the museum as a child. When my brother was little, we would sometimes come into town to visit the museum on a weekend, because there was free-entry. I love that gallery, with its displays of butterflies, insects, animal skeletons, and I think it lead into a Grotto of gemstones. The other favourite part was the mummies of course, and now I wish I had paid more attention to their stamp collection!
I'd love to visit! Is it still open?
Great video! Thank you.
There's another cultural subtext to Banksy calling it Peckham Rock. There's an episide of an old sitcom, Only Fools and Horses, where the central character, a working class chancer, bottles tapwater and calls it Peckham Spring to upsell it to Yuppies.
I live in Margate, and so the Del Boy references abound. How did I miss this? Thank you so much for sharing!
Thoroughly enjoyed your tour through the museum! Please continue these wonderful tours!
Thank you! Will do!
I'm so glad I subscribed to your Channel. I love your dark sense of humor it makes me literally giggle throughout each video I've seen of yours including this one, thank you.
Thank you so much - you wouldn't believe how much dark humour I cut out so that I don't rustle too many feathers. ;)
I too love it .. I have a fascination for weird or odd objects .. if that makes sense ( and not in a creepy way or serial killer way just yanno) 😆
I went to the Horniman museum years ago and I loved it. The history of the museum itself is fascinating. Go there please!
It's on my list!
Amazing items featured. Loving the way that you address these items and their backstories. Informative and cheeky
Thanks so much!
I love your channel. Thank you for showcasing all these interesting and often overlooked pieces in these museums.
You’re very welcome!
The Enlightenment Room is my absolute favorite. I could spend my whole life in there and be so happy. I want to read ALL the books!
It's wonderful!
Just discovered you! You are wonderful and so knowledgeable! I’m binge watching everything! Thanks so much for all you do. Had to subscribe 👏👏👏🤩😊✌️
I’m working through all of Jessica’s videos again to catch those I didn’t “like” before and to hit the thumbs up. The videos remind me of a holiday my mum and I took before I was married where we set out an agenda for all the museums we wanted to see and any spooky things therein. Thanks for bringing back that wonderful memory Jessica. My hubby and I did it years later and watching your videos show us what we missed. Sadly my darling hubby is now too ill to be able to do that again as even the hour flight down would overwhelm him.
Jessica,t have you a patrol or community?
Your podcasts are addicting. I started with your most recent and now going through your earlier ones. Great job!
Glad you like them! Thank you ❤️
I loved this video!! More please♥️♥️
Thank you! There will be many more to come. In the meantime, please subscribe so you are notified when the next video goes up. :)
Jessica you got a new subscriber! Brilliantly presented :)
Thank you Ivan!
Thank you for this - I'll have to check these out when I'm there again
You're welcome!
Another brilliant video! I like how you've made the British Museum easier to grasp when it's so huge. Loved the section about John Dee.
The hand of glory in the Whitby Museum is probably the most macabre thing I've ever seen in a museum. 😬
I was JUST researching the Whitby Museum! I plan to go there in a few months. I have a tattoo of Hand of Glory.
5:21 Wow A small mermaid🧜🏿♀mummy!!
Yep! My favourite.
I truly appreciate you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
You are so welcome
I think all your videos are extremely informative and interesting. ❤
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching.
More videos please. This one is great!
Thank you! Another spooky one on the way.
I will be taking myself on this tour next time I am in London! Thank you!
I will take you!
I’m loving these videos! I’d be interested to know your favourite small/quirky museums in London?
Did you read my mind? I have almost finished a video on the Ten Weirdest Museums in London. :)
@@TheMuseumGuide oh nice! Looking forward to it :)
@@Cribbins85 I'll be posting it just after Hallowe'en. :)
Already in love with this channel, dont have the money to visit the museums i want to see, but youve seen quite a few :) thanks for sharing with everyone!
You’re very welcome!
Great videos, absolutely love this channel, I'm learning a lot thank you 😀
Great to hear! Thank you. :)
Great drone work Gly,it gives us viewers a good look at the areas your in and also saves your legs 😂 thankyou for another great video❤
This was super great! I’ve been to the museum many times and never seen those. 👍
Glad to hear it!
My Grandfather, after retiring as a policeman took a job as a security guard at the British Museum.He didn't like the Egyptian Room and particularly was wary of 'Ginger' on night patrols. He retired in the late 1960's. I still have some buttons from his uniform.
That's fantastic - what a wonderful memento!
@@TheMuseumGuide He was a WW1 veteran and served through 1914-19 with occasional time off for them to patch him up from shrapnel wounds or being gassed. Normal stuff back then. He knew there was likely to be another war made sure he was in a reserved occupation which the police were. I also have his WW1 medals, his stripes/bars for being wounded
, his certificate of debobilisation and his civil defence medal from WW2. I'm of an age where I had grandparents and other relatives in WW1, now all long gone.
@The Museum Guide, I would love a series of history and tours of the whole magick movement from the late 19th to early 20th century, including Alistair MacDonald and the Golden Dawn, etc... I don't dabble in it myself, but as a lifelong student of human beliefs, this period I think has deeper influence on our world today than most people are aware. And being mysterious and creepy sometimes, it seems right up your alley!
I would love to hear more about Dr. John Dee. I’m thrilled to have found your channel!
I’ll head up to the Ashmolean in Oxford next month. :)
My first time here.
What a great job you've got.........
Thank you! I do love it.
John Dee lived in Manchester in what in now Chethams School of Music 1421, I work in the building and am always looking out for his ghost….maybe one day!
Some say he's still alive.... keep an eye out for him!
Had to subscribe immediately. 🤩This was such an interesting video. Thanks for sharing because I doubt I’d ever make it to this museum, but I’d certainly love to!😊
Welcome!!
Yes plz any and all museums. Love this stuff
You got it!
Great video Jessica, Looking forward to more.
Thanks Julie! A lot more coming soon - be sure to subscribe. :)
Amazing stuff , lovely presenting miss ❤❤❤
I would love to see more from the British Museum and the Louvre! Love these videos!!
Thank you! I have another British Museum tour and a Louvre tour. :)
I know I'm late to the party, but I've just discovered your channel, and I have to say... I'm loving all the wonderful weirdness! ♥ It's quickly becoming one of my go-to channels when I'm surfing TH-cam. :) Thank you for all the strange and informative content! Keep up the great work! :) It seems that genuine documentary-style videos are harder and harder to find. Everything seems to be AI voiced now. It's really refreshing and so SO enjoyable to have a real person take us through the stories of these things! Subscribed and grateful. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Besides eating mummies,they were also burning them like firewood.
And using them to fertilise fields!
Have just visited the National Museum of Scotland. Would love to see your take on some of the unusual objects there.
I can't wait to head back to Edinburgh!
I love all your future ideas, esp John Dee. Thanks.
Thank you!
Thanks! I can’t afford a monthly but I’d love to buy you a cup ☕️
Thank you so much, Vickie!
Can't wait for your video's to come out. Love your take on the museums and enjoy them immensely. We are taking our first and hopefully not last trip abroad soon. I have England as my next go to spot. Trying to work in the things I would love to do with my budget. Keep it up - oh and when you ask if we would like a tour of "?" museum or area the answer from me will always be yes!! Yes, Yes, Yes. I was the only kid I knew that would rather tour a museum than party.
Thank you so much! Comments like yours really make this all worthwhile.
Hello--Yes, I'd like you to show us a cursed gemstone from the museum. It was actually given to the museum in the 19th century with a letter telling of all the bad luck connected with it. It's not on public display but is kept (along with the note) in the collection of stones. This stone has been referred to by Richard Forty in his book on his long-term connection as a researcher at the museum. I'd also like an update on the British Museum ghost situation---any new sightings or experiences reported by workers, guards, or the public as of 2023? Also, I'm a great fan of Dee and Kelley and their adventures and I'd love to see any video you might make on them. Many thanks! Jesse Glass (I love the British Museum!). Jesse
Absolute fan of Banksy,this was amusing at the time and feel still is now,only Banksy could get away with this❤
I absolutely LOVE your videos…
However…..I waited for Lindow Man! I know you will cover him. When I was in the British Museum w/ my sister, we asked for the “Bog man” & the guides were like “ BOG man?!” Lol❤
I love bog bodies! I’ll do a video just on this topic. ❤️
Hi Jessica! Thanks so much for your fantastic videos. I was wondering if you could tell me what the difference is between museum curation and museum interpretation departments? Thank you!
Strange & macabre?
Yes, please!
I know I’m really late but I just found your channel today and LOVE it!!
(Of course I subbed)
Welcome aboard! You’re not late- I’m still very active. Just getting started!
Bet there is a LOT more weird stuff in the storage rooms.....
What I would give to have a look! Although, to be fair, it’s all listed online. It’s always such a disappointment for me when I find an amazing weirdo object and then realise it’s not on display. 😔
I'd love a series on the Ashmolean.
I’ll have to visit!
@@TheMuseumGuide The Ashmolean was closed when I was there. As was Westminster and the Mummy's of the British Museum. It was all getting makeovers for the Millennium. Everything was covered in scaffolding and Hi Vis Orange fencing and cones. I knew it would look better, but was a disappointing trip because it was the ugliest city I'd ever seen. lol Only because of the scaffolding and fencing. I was there in '99 to see if I could donate a kidney to my British friend.
Thank you so much for your museum tours! I went to the British Museum once, but it was just too crowded to see much at all. Most of the interesting objects I couldn´t even get to without being rude or pushy. I left and it made me sad. There is a child labour museum in London as well. Prison museum is also worth a visit for interesting displays. Toy museum is another idea or medical museums. So many interesting museums available. Maybe you could cover those if you haven´t already. I just found ypur channel and am only 4 hours in binge watching. :D
I LOVE medical museums! The Old Operating Theatre is in one of my upcoming videos. :) Which museum focuses on child labour? The Foundling Museum?
Thank you ❤ would love to know more about John Dee. Also, could you please do something on nostradumus. Thank you
Back in the 1980s some artists I was slightly acquainted with snuck a small sculpture into the local art museum. It depicted the artist carving himself from a block of clay. They had it with a fake description card and fake acquisition number. I seem to recall it was found as a phony piece only a day or two after it was placed in the museum.
I love it! Guerrilla art.
@@TheMuseumGuide And FWIW, they did this decades before Banksy!
I wonder if anyone ever sees any paranormal activity at these museums! All that death.. removed mummies from burial sites… I can’t get behind the idea of ghosts until I hear that they’ve appeared in places like this 😂
I love you British museum!!!!!!!
This was fun! I wondered if there might be pieces of all Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in the British Museum. Do you think there are? Could you do that tour?
There are not, but there are references to a few of them - great idea for a tour!
You passed the Ribchester Roman helmet a couple of times, found just down the road from me.
Stunning! I will go investigate it next time I am there.
John Dee had the queen’s complete confidence. He predicted accurately years earlier that she would be crowned Queen.
He really was something.
Loved it thank you for doing this love to see more of this
You're very welcome! Make sure you subscribe - more videos coming very soon.
Love your vids !
Thank you!
I'll have the mossy skull and horse dung tea please :) Im hippity hopping through your videos. Thanks for the trip🌻
You’re very welcome!
Thanks!
You’re very welcome!
Hi from New Zealand🇳🇿Love your vlogs!
Thank you! I hope to visit NZ next year, so suggestions for museums are always welcome!
@@TheMuseumGuide Oh cool! Will do some thinking of museums for you to visit & let you know❤
New Zealander here too !
@@TheMuseumGuide Auckland museum .. te papa in Wellington is huge and has lots of oddities and history .. lots of smaller museums and history places depends where ya going .. if ya like creepy things or being scared .. spookers on Auckland is fab it's like a live haunted house and maze built on an old psychiatric hospital .. creepy and spooky and prob ghosts nearby lol
"Shew" is pronounced like "show" and is an older English spelling of this same word. A modern day example that has kept this long "o" sound and "ew" spelling is "sew". Given what he tried to use it for, "show stone" would be the more accurate name for this object.
That’s fantastic- thank you! I had no idea.
But remember, Ed Sullivan always said “we got a really big shew tonight.” 😂
The Crystal Skull is still a beautiful piece! Well shaped, accurate, polished.. ❤ the FeeJee mermaid, or one like it, may have been a very well made mix of a fish and a kind of monkey or small primate. Nice rings! Got to see a mummy exhibit some years ago. Not just from Egypt but S. America, Europe, and one or two other places. Incredible to see! What is the strangest object (in a a curio / antique shop) you have seen and could have bought? Saw a preserved full length human arm in an antique shop. Yes it was for sale, but I didn't buy it!
Would like to see more about Dr Dee
I will head to the Ashmolean museum soon and focus on Dr Dee!
Great video. I've been around the British museum loads of times and I haven't seen all of these objects. I'll make sure to seek them out next time I go. Narrowing the many, many strange items in the museum down to 8 must have been quite a challenge. Weird how many prehistoric mummies turn out to have died violently- Gebelein Man, Lindow Man, Otzi... The distant past could be very disturbing.
I’m already working on a part 2 for this video- you’re right - there are so many to choose from!
The Banksey thing is hysterical! Tell the museum to bring out of storage artefacts that they don't know what they are. Why Not?
Call the room WE DONT F*ing KNOW??
Banksy is a true trickster. I would love for this to be on permanent display!
Please do a video on the Horniman’s Museum!
It’s on my list!
The Horniman Museum's collection sounds fascinating to me
It’s on my list!
He is so interesting!! I want to learn about the shew stone lol
You should come to St Louis Mo to see Bob at the Art Museum. There are scratches inside the case
I would love to!
Loved this new subscriber
Yay! Thank you!
@@TheMuseumGuide first vid of yours I'd watched. Loved it, the history and your cool style 🖤🖤🖤
For more information about John Dee’s mirror refer to “Imaginos” by the Blue Öyster Cult.
Oh, cool! I didn’t know about this song. Thanks!
When there....20 years ago, there was a gigantic Buddha statue, IN THE STAIRWELL....do I remember correctly?????
Yes, it is actually Guanyin, a boddhisatva! He is in the Northwest staircase. :)
Cheers from your newest subscriber from California !
Thank you so much!
A mummified Egyptian Mongoose makes sense, it would be associated with killing vermin, venomous spiders and snakes etc. Definitely a must have pet I would think.
That makes perfect sense!
Loved the Bansksyin the museum😂
Tell us about mummy unwrapping parties in Victorian England.
Gladly! I’ll make a video in the future.
I enjoy your videos... :)
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching.
Kikagoods those dolls are sweet and amazing
The FeeGee mermaid.. is the head if a small monkey & a stuffed fish. A lot of fish were opened &:splayed, dried out to look like a skeletal half fish/being oddity. (They made them for sale to school kids on trips in the 70s)
Yes, and this one has a wooden core. He even went through an MRI!
Brilliant!
Thank you!
Would love to see the first entire dinosaur fossil found in England.
You should watch my video about the Natural History Museum!
th-cam.com/video/aDwMrDGvLWk/w-d-xo.html
I would LOVE A John Dee episode.
Hopefully next year! Thank you so much for watching.
Is he as eccentric as I’ve read. I can imagine as the queens favourite alchemist he got a lot of bad press.
I got to the Museum at opening time, and started on the top floor. Was 2 floors down, feeling hungry, starting to think "oh it must be nearly lunchtime" ... It was 5pm.
Is the bound foot (complete with bones) still there?
I don't think so! I have never seen it.
The miniatures collection of the V&A? Please?
Is that the one at the Young V&A?
Zia there a group of paintings or a particular painter which are known to have used mummy brown?
The Pre-Raphaelites!
Yes, a film on John Dee please
It’s on the shortlist!
Enjoying your TH-cam👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you!