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Museums
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Muddy’s 23 best autumn culture picks
It's all going on! Behold, your cheat-sheet to the season's best art, theatre, music and film, as curated by Muddy's deeply cultural Kerry Potter.
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Spellbound – the first review
There's a brand new major exhibition in town and it's all about magic. Muddy hopped on a broomstick and headed down for an exclusive tour and it's a corker.
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How to take a great selfie
If I can do it, you can! And maybe you'll even end up in the new Museum Of Selfies (yes, really) one day.
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HOT NEW SPRING EXHIBITIONS
You can't beat London's museums for a culture fix. So unleash your inner Brian Sewell and check out these must-see Spring exhibitions - featuring Grayson Perry, Hockney and, um, Arnie's Terminator suit.
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Up close and personal
Know much about artist John Piper? We didn't either, but having seen the new the permanent new exhibition of the Henley-based polymath at The River & Rowing Museum in Henley we're now decided fans. See what the fuss is about here.
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Storms, War and Shipwrecks
The Ashmolean's Summer exhibition is an underwater triumph, a 200-strong exhibition focuses on objects rescued from the bottom of the sea around Sicily, including pieces from an incredible 'flat pack' church and bronze battering rams once mounted on the prows of Roman warships.
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The Muddy Guide: What’s On Thurs 17 – Weds 23 March
Loads on this week around Bucks and Oxon – it really feels like the fun is cranking up for Spring. Out you go and have some fun! Austen’s Women, Arts at the Old Fire Station, Fri 18 March Mr Darcy! A sell-out Edinburgh Festival hit, this play takes 13 of Jane Austen’s heroines in this […]
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Up the highest tower in Oxford. Fancy a look?
Went into Oxford last Monday to take my kids to the Andy Warhol exhibition at The Ashmolean Museum – because those bratlets will be cultured, goddamit. But I entirely forgot that all the museums are closed on a Monday (even in half term which seem a bit daft). Cue some quick thinking and a change […]
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KIDS: River & Rowing and a fab lunchy
You can always rely on the River & Rowing Museum to provide gloriously silly fancy dress with their holiday activity program. Having elbowed several children out the way to get at the goods (don’t get sniffy, at least one of them was mine) , I threw on this polyester gold lame number. This little […]
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Summer Funtime at the River & Rowing Museum
Ah, doesn’t it look peaceful? This was the lovely neat, quiet room in Henley’s River & Rowing Museum before any children got into it. Let me say straight away that this Summer Funtime with Mr Toad exhibition is not quiet. Car horns beep, there’s a musical station to the front of the picture above with […]
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