Small Wonders: Compton Verney
Steven Parissien, director of Compton Verney in Warwickshire, talks to Apollo
Steven Parissien, director of Compton Verney in Warwickshire, talks to Apollo
When will Italian museums do something to improve their websites?
At the State Hermitage Museum earlier this summer, I spent some time watching the visitors. Many were in large tour groups and traipsed from room to room, plugged into headsets relaying their local guide’s official three-hour route through the vast collections. Most visitors – of all ages and nationalities, and in tour groups or alone […]
Moore and Rodin make unlikely bedfellows but their pairing at Perry Green results in some fruitful juxtapositions
Early modern visitors to Moscow often brought silver to the tsar – which is why the Kremlin Armoury Museum holds a remarkable collection of pre-Restoration English silver