Republic of the Moon - London

Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Leonid Tishkov, Katie Paterson, Liliane Lijn, WE COLONISED THE MOON, Hagen Betzwieser, Sue Corke, Joanna Griffin, Tomas Saraceno

Bargehouse
Oxo Tower Wharf
South Bank
London SE1 9PH
UK

10/01/2014 – 02/02/2014
11am-6pm daily, late opening 6.30-8.30pm Thursday 9 January and 6.30-10pm Thursday 16 January

Thursday 9 January, 6.30-8.30pm – Opening night and Manifesto launch

Friday 10 January, 5-6pm – Exhibition tour with curator Rob La Frenais and the artists

Saturday 11 January, 11am-1pm – Open think tank late breakfast with artists in residence WE COLONISED THE MOON

Sunday 12 January, 2–5pm – Make it to the Moon, drop in family workshops led by Helen Schell

Thursday 16 January, 7-10pm – Kosmica: Full Moon Party and late night exhibition opening book online

Sun 19 January, 2.30–4.30pm – Moon Stories, family workshop with Joanna Griffin bookingonline

Saturday 1 February, 2-5pm – Global Lunar Day book online

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Wall Street Magazine

It's four decades since humans walked on the Moon, but it now seems likely that we will return there this century – whether to mine for its minerals, as a ‘stepping stone’ to Mars, or simply to do scientific research. In a provocative pre-emptive action, a group of artists are declaring a Republic of the Moon here on Earth, to re-examine our relationship with our planet’s only natural satellite.

After two decades working with space dreamers from the European Space Agency to anarchist autonomous astronauts, The Arts Catalyst will transform Bargehouse into an Earth-based embassy for a Republic of the Moon, filled with artists’ fantastical imaginings. Presenting international artists including Liliane Lijn, Leonid Tishkov, Katie Paterson, Agnes Meyer Brandis, and WE COLONISED THE MOON, the exhibition combines personal encounters, DIY space plans, imaginary expeditions and new myths for the next space age.

Marking the start of its twentieth anniversary year, The Arts Catalyst will animate the exhibition with performances, workshops, music, talks, a pop-up moon shop by super/collider and playful protests against lunar exploitation.  A manifesto declaring the Moon a temporary autonomous zone, with responses from artists and scientists to novelist Tony White’s call to “occupy the Moon!” will be published in print and e-Book formats to coincide with the exhibition.

The artists in Republic of the Moon regard the Moon not as a resource to be exploited but as a heavenly body that belongs to us all. The exhibition asks: Who will be the first colonisers of the Moon? Perhaps it should be the artists.

Agnes Meyer-Brandis’ poetic-scientific investigations weave together fact, imagination, storytelling and myth, from past, present and future. In Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility, the artist develops an ongoing narrative based on the book The Man in the Moone, written by English bishop Francis Godwin in the 1630s, in which the protagonist flies to the Moon in a chariot towed by ‘moon geese’. Meyer-Brandis has actualised this concept by raising eleven moon geese from birth in Italy, giving them astronauts’ names, imprinting them on herself as goose-mother, training them to fly and taking them on expeditions. The artist has built a remote Moon analogue habitat for the geese, which will be operated from a control room within the gallery. (* Neil, Svetlana, Gonzales, Valentina, Friede, Juri, Buzz, Kaguya-Anousheh, Irena, Rakesh, Konstantin-Hermann).  Moon Goose Analogue: Luna Bird Migration Facility the documentary film of this project was Ars Electronica award of distinction winner 2012.

Katie Paterson Second Moon and Earth–Moon–Earth.  Second Moon is Paterson's current project tracking the cyclical journey of a small fragment of the Moon as it circles the Earth, via airfreight courier, on a man made commercial orbit.  Second Moon is making an anticlockwise journey; orbiting at approximately twice the speed of our Moon, it will orbit Earth about 30 times in one year.  The journey can also be followed on a free App. Earth–Moon–Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon) involved using a form of radio transmission whereby messages are sent in Morse code, from earth, reflected from the surface of the moon and then received back on earth. The moon reflects only part of the information back – some is absorbed in its shadows, ‘lost’ in its craters. For this work Paterson has translated Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata into Morse code and sent it to the moon via Earth-Moon-Earth (EME). Returning to earth fragmented by the moon's surface, it has been re-translated into a new score, the gaps and absences becoming intervals and rests. In the exhibition the moon–altered score is performed on a self-playing grand piano.

Liliane Lijn’s moonmeme explores the repeating cycle of the Moon’s phases, projecting the word 'SHE', an epithet for the Moon, onto the lunar surface so the letters slowly emerge and then disappear as it wanes. Since lunar projection is so challenging technically, Lijn has worked with an astronomer to present a real-time animation of the projection accompanied by a sound work and by quotations from sources including Pliny and the Talmud to illustrate the profound connections between the Moon and the feminine principal of transformation and renewal.  The Mayor of London will announce a decision on Lijn’s shortlisted proposal for London’s Fourth Plinth early in 2014.

Leonid Tishkov’s Private Moon tells the story of a man who met the Moon and stayed with her for the rest of his life. In a series of intimate photographs, the artist pairs images of his private moon with verse which describes how the Moon helps us to overcome our loneliness in the universe by uniting us around it. Tishkov and his illuminated moon have travelled the world for almost ten years. He has a dream to fly with her to the Moon.

WE COLONISED THE MOON (Sue Corke and Hagen Betzwieser) will be the Republic of the Moon’s artists in residence throughout the exhibition, creating work and running talks and workshops. Corke and Betzwieser’s graphic art and installation projects embody a child-like wonder at the universe. Employing a range of DIY production techniques, their partnership is rooted in absurdism and theatrical performance characterised by slogans and catchphrases. At the Bargehouse, they will be coordinating protests against the exploitation of the Moon and working with scientists to help us look afresh at our closest celestial neighbour.

Moon Vehicle (Joanna Griffin and ISRO scientist P Shreekumar) a presentation of a project devised by the students at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India, with artist Joanna Griffin. Its focus was to reclaim a cultural connection with the Indian Chandrayaan space programme challenging the now-dominant scientific narrative of the Moon and reasserting other imaginaries inspired by Indian narratives of self-determination and agency.

Pop Rock Moon Shop designed by super/collider will be selling all manner of discerning lunar ephemera.

A Manifesto for the Republic of the Moon will be published to accompany the exhibition, edited by curator, Rob La Frenais and including Tony White's specially commissioned short fiction Occupy the Moon!, it will be available in print, .epub and .mobi formats.

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Republic of the Moon is a touring exhibition, commissioned by The Arts Catalyst with FACT. The first version of the exhibition was presented at FACT Liverpool in winter 2012. The exhibition and residency has been made possible with Grants for the Arts support from Arts Council England and Science & Technology Facilities Council.

Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility links directly to Meyer-Brandis's, Moon Goose Colony, 2011, a project during her residency at Pollinaria, Italy, the site of the remote analogue habitat where the artist has raised and houses the colony of moon geese.

Second Moon has been commissioned by Locus+ in partnership with Newcastle University and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.  Supported by Arts Council England, Adelaide Festival and Newcastle City Council

Bargehouse is owned and managed by social enterprise, Coin Street Community Builders: www.coinstreet.org

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See new papercut works from Rob Ryan's exhibition in London

An exhibition of the artist's work comes to London as his new book The Invisble Kingdom is released.

Rob Ryan's enchanting papercut work will be on show at the Sims Reed Gallery in London next month.

The exhibition of all-new artworks includes some of Rob's largest pieces to date, and includes both papercut and print works.

The show coincides with the publcation of Rob's new book The Invisible Kingdom, an illustrated children's book about a lonely prince who escapes to the real world that comes out on October 24. It's the first of a trilogy and follows This is for You and A Sky Full of Kindness.

The exhibition runs from October 23 to November 8 at the Sims Reed Gallery, 30 Bury Street, London, SW1 6AU – near Green Park tube. It's been put on by TAG Fine Arts.

Use the slideshow controls above and right to see more of the works on show.

Rob Ryan's enchanting papercut work will be on show at the Sims Reed Gallery in London next month.

The exhibition of all-new artworks includes some of Rob's largest pieces to date, and includes both papercut and print works.

The show coincides with the publcation of Rob's new book The Invisible Kingdom, an illustrated children's book about a lonely prince who escapes to the real world that comes out on October 24. It's the first of a trilogy and follows This is for You and A Sky Full of Kindness.

The exhibition runs from October 23 to November 8 at the Sims Reed Gallery, 30 Bury Street, London, SW1 6AU – near Green Park tube. It's been put on by TAG Fine Arts.

Use the slideshow controls above and right to see more of the works on show.

Right: It Was Only The Beginning

Right: Detail from It Was Only The Beginning

Right: Dreamed The Same Dreams

Right: Detail from Dreamed The Same Dreams

Right: There Is Only Time

Right: Detail from There Is Only Time

Right: Could You, Would You

Right: Detail from Could You, Would You

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London Remembers Landmark Year for Doctor Who and Other Famous Figures and Events in 2013

    LONDON, ENGLAND, February 07, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Doctor Who's half-century celebrations continue with a screening of 'Tomb of the Cybermen' starring second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, at the British Film Institute on Saturday 9th February. Following January's screening of the first ever episode of Doctor Who starring William Hartnell in the lead role, this is the latest instalment in the BFI's monthly countdown to November's 50th anniversary of the famous BBC science fiction series.

Such a landmark does not come in isolation in the capital this year, with cultural heavyweights past and present, dead and alive, taking centre stage in London with a flurry of high-profile anniversaries. From celebrity birthdays to King Henry V's coronation: 2013 is the year the Tube turns 150, two classical maestros complete double centuries and Jack the Ripper makes it 125 years on the loose and avoiding the noose.

Composers Benjamin Britten, Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi all celebrate key anniversaries with a hefty programme of commemorative events in London. In May, a Wagner Anniversary Concert at the Southbank Centre is conducted by Sir Andrew Davis and kicks off 'Wagner 200' - a wide-ranging, London-based festival celebrating his bicentenary. Verdi's own double century celebrations begin with Peter Konwitschny's new production of 'La Traviata' at the ENO's Coliseum from February through to March, while 'Nabucco' is performed later in the spring at the Royal Opera House.

Britten is the major pull, however, with the British centurion composer featuring heavily in the BBC Proms from July to September. Kings Place hosts a three-day 'Britten at 100' festival in February, there are summer productions of 'Gloriana' at the Royal Albert Hall and 'Death in Venice' at the Coliseum, while the moving 'War Requiem' is performed at the Albert Hall on Remembrance Sunday, 11 days before what would have been the 100th birthday of Britain's most influential composer. Travellers arriving from outside London to watch any of these superb concerts can conveniently book their accommodation on LondonTown.com, where there's a wide range of London hotels available to suit all budgets.

Legendary Londoner Sir Michael Caine turns 80 years old on 14th March with a special four-month exhibition at the Museum of London focusing on the key moments of his career. Also turning 80, Yoko Ono curates the annual Meltdown Festival at the Southbank in June, while architect Richard Rogers is subject of a Royal Academy summer exhibition to coincide with his 80th birthday. Not quite an octogenarian just yet, Sir Paul Smith's four decades in the fashion business are remembered in the London Design Museum from November.

Elsewhere, the centenary of Igor Stavinsky's masterpiece 'The Rite of Spring' is remembered in three separate ground-breaking reinterpretations at Sadler's Wells from April to June; Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' turns 200 with an Open Air Theatre performance in Regent's Park in June; the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show celebrates 100 years at the Royal Hospital in May; the 100th anniversary of Bollywood takes centre stage in the annual London Indian Film Festival in July, while the Rocky Horror Show embarks on a 40th anniversary tour.

Besides the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, other historical landmarks specific to London include the 125th anniversary of the Jack the Ripper killings, the 400th anniversary of the Globe Theatre being burnt to the ground, and the 150th anniversary of the Football Association - to be marked by the second Champions League final in three years at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 25th May.

Finally, there's a raft of royal celebrations to get your teeth stuck into in 2013. Last year all eyes were on the Queen for her Diamond Jubilee, but the exact 60th anniversary of Her Majesty's Coronation on 2nd June 1953 comes this year and will be celebrated with a four-day Coronation Festival in Buckingham Palace gardens in July. Throw on an extra zero and you get the 600th anniversary of the coronation of King Henry V - remembered with a performance of Shakespeare's 'Henry V' starring Jude Law in the title role, which runs at the Noel Coward Theatre through to February 2014.

All of these wonderful celebratory events are covered in LondonTown.com's London Events in 2013 page. This press release features extracts from London 2013: Major London Anniversaries, an article in the new 244-page guide book to London in 2013, published by LondonTown.com. To purchase a copy of London 2013 - The Annual go to http://www.londontown.com/2013/

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Plot Your Year Ahead with the Unique London 2013 Annual

    LONDON, ENGLAND, January 28, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- If you thought there might be a post-Olympic hangover in London, the LondonTown.com guide to 2013 will soon put you right. In the year after hosting the biggest show on earth, London has a huge wealth of arts, entertainment and cultural events, sporting fixtures and new openings to keep visitors happy in 2013. Travellers arriving from outside London can conveniently book their accommodation on LondonTown.com, where there's a wide range of London hotels available to book, including hotels to suit all budgets.

In his introductory article to this new ground-breaking 244-page book - entitled London 2013: The Annual - LondonTown.com editor Steven Potter argues that the capital is riding the crest of a wave as it enters a cultural, sporting and social boom; last year's inspiring Olympics and glorious Diamond Jubilee celebrations were the kind of unrepeatable events that will forever go down in history - but London is not resting on its laurels. Far from it; London has come back with a diverse, challenging and, above all, fun programme of events that once again underlines its status as cultural capital of the world.

Bigger, better and slicker than last year's inaugural edition, the London 2013 Annual guide boasts a month-by-month selection of the 65,000 events that will be featured on LondonTown.com throughout the year - from blockbuster art exhibitions to West End shows, intimate talks to new openings, quirky traditions to open-air gigs. These monthly sections are sandwiched between a series of colourful articles written by industry experts covering the major highlights for London 2013 - including theatre, art, exhibitions, sport, classical music, dance and opera. Numerous "best of" picture features also cover everything from London's food markets, film festivals, and comedy venues to festive ice rinks, lidos and summer festivals.

From the opening of The Shard and the highest viewing platform in Western Europe to the unveiling of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and its first post-Olympic event, August's weekend-long RideLondon festival of cycling; 2013 is bursting with landmark major events. Articles delve into all the major openings of 2013, while a comprehensive feature focuses on the major anniversaries being celebrated this year in London - including bicentenaries for the composers Wagner and Verdi, 100 years of Britten, and 80th birthdays for Yoko Ono and legendary Londoner Sir Michael Caine.

There's much to look forward to in the year in which David Bowie gets a retrospective at the V&A, the first ever major UK exhibition of Edouard Manet comes to town, the curtain rises for both 'The Book of Mormon' and 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', kraut-rockers Kraftwerk play eight live performances at the Tate's Turbine Hall, Eddie Izzard embarks on the biggest comedy tour in history, the Champions League Final returns to Wembley for the second time in two years, the Tube turns 150 and the Queen marks 60 years on the throne with a special Coronation Festival in Buckingham Palace Gardens.

Buoyed by its own gold medal performance in staging the Summer Games last year, London continues to be obsessively innovative, bursting with confidence and relentlessly growing - this is nowhere more evident than with its huge annual arts, entertainment, cultural and sporting calendar. Last year, during the Olympics, all eyes were on London. The great thing is that no one's yet to blink.

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This release features extracts from 'London 2013: Prologue', the introductory article to the new 244-page London 2013 year ahead annual guide book published by www.LondonTown.com. To purchase a copy of 'London 2013 - The Annual'

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The Must-See Theatre, Art Exhibitions, Dance, Opera and Sporting Events in London in July 2013

    LONDON, ENGLAND, June 25, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- It's the finals of Wimbledon on the first weekend of July, a month when London's parks are filled with live music, The Coronation Festival takes place at Buckingham Palace, and two well-known London venues - the former Olympic Park and the Imperial War Museum - open their doors again. These are just some of the best events in London in July and for visitors coming to the city now is the time to book a hotel in London where the city's parks, concert halls, theatres, museums, galleries and sporting venues are putting on some must-see events.

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park officially re-opens on Saturday 27th July 2013 but before that the park plays host to Mumford & Sons, the Wireless Festival, the Electric Daisy Carnival and the London Anniversary Games when Usain Bolt, Mo Farah and 28 Olympic medallists return to the scene of their 2012 triumphs. And that's all before the Open East Festival which marks the grand re-opening on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th July 2013.

The Imperial War Museum welcomes visitors once again following a six-month closure, re-opening its doors with three new exhibitions: 'Architecture of War', Omer Fast's '5000 Feet is Best' and the family friendly 'Horrible Histories: Spies'. There's more family fun to be had this month at the Osterley Weekend, the Festival of British Archaeology, a Traditional Crafts Weekend at the London Wetland Centre, and the Lambeth Country Show.

There's a multitude of music festivals in London in July. For the first time ever British Summer Time is staged in Hyde Park, a 10-day festival where headliners include The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Elton John and Jennifer Lopez. Kew the Music has a quality line-up with Paul Weller, Blondie, Leona Lewis and Jools Holland all playing at the festival in London's botanical gardens. In the courtyard of Somerset House the Summer Series features Lianne La Havas, Goldfrapp and Basement Jaxx while the Wireless Festival has Justin Timberlake and Jay Z headlining. The Lovebox line-up includes Azealia Banks, Plan B and Lil' Kim; and the Electric Daisy Carnival, North America's largest dance music event, makes its London debut on Saturday 20th July 2013 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

The BBC Proms starts on Friday 12th July with the First Night of the Proms kicking off eight weeks of world class classical music at the Royal Albert Hall. Opera in London in July includes the Royal Opera House's La Rondine, one of two productions to be shown live and for free on the big screen in Trafalgar Square where Alan Titchmarsh hosts. The Thursday 11th July screening will be followed by Tosca on Thursday 18th July 2013. The Opera Holland Park season continues with jolly, rustic comedy 'L'Elisir d'Amore' and blood-and-thunder melodrama 'I Gioielli della Madonna' which begins on Tuesday 23rd July 2013.

The best new dance productions in London in July are the Boston Ballet which returns to London for the first time in 30 years to celebrate its 50th anniversary, and a 'Classical Selection' by Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta who is joined by a supporting cast of world class dance partners with whom he has performed in the past to celebrate the year of his 40th birthday, both productions are staged at the London Coliseum.

New theatre shows beginning in July in London include 'The Sound of Music' at Regent's Park; and all three of Shakespeare's 'Henry VI' plays at Shakespeare's Globe where trumpet soloist Alison Balsom appears in 'Gabriel' and Footsbarn perform 'Indian Tempest'. Other theatre highlights are 'The Color Purple' at the Menier Chocolate Factory, 'A Season in the Congo' at the Young Vic, and 'Circle Mirror Transformation' starring Imelda Staunton, a Royal Court production at the Rose Lipman building in Haggerston.

The British architect behind the Lloyd's of London building, Richard Rogers, is the subject of an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts where 'Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940' begins on 6th July. The Victoria and Albert Museum takes visitors on a nostalgic trip through London fashion in the 1980s with 'Club to Catwalk'.

Other art exhibitions worth seeing are 'Laura Knight Portraits' at the National Portrait Gallery, the Design Museum's 'The Future is Here' and a clutch of photographic exhibitions including 'FreshFaced+WildEyed' at The Photographers' Gallery, 'The Press Photographer's Year', a free exhibition in the foyer of the National Theatre, and the 'International Garden Photographer of the Year' which comes to a central London gallery for the first time, appearing at the Bankside Gallery before showing at its usual London home at Kew Gardens in October 2013.

For fragrant flowers and beautiful blooms in the flesh visitors descend in their thousands on the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show from 9th to 14th July 2013 where show gardens compete for RHS medals and celebrity speakers include Linda Barker, Bill Oddie and Kate Humble.

For these and more must-see events in London beginning in July 2013, go to LondonTown.com where a host of useful information is supplied, giving those planning to visit the city all the information they need in one online location. With over 18 years of experience, the website is the place to go to for informative and unbiased reviews on everything you need to know about the UK's capital city.

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London 2013: Major Museum Highlights

    LONDON, ENGLAND, January 29, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Priceless jewels, ice age art, Roman remains, Russian riches, 80s fashion, endangered species, a Bowie bonanza and the science behind the Big Bang. This is just a handful of topics covered by the London museum scene in 2013, which promises to be yet another ground-breaking year. LondonTown.com has left no stone uncovered in its new 244-page guide to London 2013, which includes write-ups of all the major museum exhibitions over the next 12 months and an in-depth article about the must-see shows in the capital.

Two blockbuster exhibitions stand out at the British Museum in 2013: 'Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind', which presents some of the world's oldest sculptures and drawings alongside modern works by Henry Moore, Mondrian and Matisse to demonstrate how ancient art influences contemporary artists; and 'Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum', one of the undoubted highlights of 2013, which features 250 stunning finds from the Roman cities destroyed by Vesuvius in AD 79, and is the first exhibition on this subject in London in 40 years. These exhibitions - and many more - are covered in LondonTown.com's comprehensive London Events 2013 page.

Highlights at the Victoria & Albert Museum include an intriguing exhibition of the costumes, artwork, photographs and handwritten lyrics of David Bowie in a study of the pop icon's influence on fashion, sound, graphics, theatre and film. 'Treasures of the Royal Court: Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tsars' looks at the extraordinary items traded between Britain and Russia in the 16th century, while the V&A also has a summer show on London fashion in the 80s ('From Club To Catwalk') and a stunning study of jewellery from the Roman Empire to the present day ('Pearls').

Also part of the South Kensington triumvirate of museums, the Natural History Museum looks at evolution and endangered species in 'Extinction: Not The End Of The World?'. Renowned photographer Sebastiao Salgado is showcased in 'Genesis' while the ever-popular 'Wildlife Photographer of the Year' returns. The major exhibition of the year for the nearby Science Museum is a focus on the remarkable 'Large Hadron Collider' in Geneva, which is attempting to recreate the Big Bang in one of the greatest scientific endeavours of our time.

Design fans will enjoy a summer exhibition curated by the talents behind the 2012 Olympic torch, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, at the Design Museum, where later in the year Paul Smith is commemorated for his four decades in the business. Another British icon, the legendary Londoner Michael Caine, is the subject of a retrospective to coincide with his 80th birthday at the Museum of London.

More offbeat highlights from a truly diverse programme of events across London include the Royal Observatory's 'Alien Revolution', a small study of the way aliens have been portrayed in art and literature; the return of the 'Astronomy Photographer of the Year' competition at the same Greenwich venue; a thought-provoking look at modern state propaganda at the British Library ('Propaganda: Power and Persuasion'); a cracking family exhibition on 'Spies' at the revamped Imperial War Museum; and the Museum of London's major display of the 'Cheapside Hoard', a priceless cache of 16th-century jewels and gemstones discovered in a cellar in 1912.

All of London's best exhibitions are previewed on LondonTown.com's London Events in 2013 page. This press release features extracts from London 2013: Major Museum Highlights, an article in the new 244-page guide book to London in 2013, published by LondonTown.com. To purchase a copy of London 2013 - The Annual go to http://www.londontown.com/2013/

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