On the face of it, The Museum of Everything has everything. It is a delightful space, full of small rooms and alcoves, distorting mirrors to make you laugh and a collection of weird and wonderful things collected by the artist , Sir Peter Blake. But it made me shudder!
Photos galore of General Tom Thumb and other circus performers but only if they were giants or dwarves. Artfully stuffed animals mainly got up like human beings at play - boxers, card players, cricketers etc; dozens of Walt Disney figurines, dolls in all shapes and sizes, Punch and Judy and much more. But, in general, a focus on the grotesque, on the macabre. Nothing even remotely beautiful or even attractive.
Lots of young parents with their children were clearly enjoying it. It made my skin crawl and I could not wait to get out into the sunshine of Primrose Hill.
Sorry, Peter Blake!
Sunday, 13 February 2011
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