Visiting British Museum/Library?

If you going to British Museum then make sure that you also visit Museum Street, if you have not been before. The GA&U sign is still there for Ruskin House :)

If you are going in the next ten days, this exhibition at the BL is interesting and thought-provoking:
http://www.bl.uk/events/terror-and-wonder--the-gothic-imagination

But if you aren't, you can still get the book:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Terror-Wonder ... collsguid-21&linkCode=osi

The BL and BM are both free, with no ticket required, for the permanent exhibitions (small at the BL, *huge* at the BM). It is often wise to buy a ticket beforehand for temporary exhibitions, but you can sometimes get them at the door.

The Cartoon Museum is in the same vicinity:
http://www.cartoonmuseum.org/

- wellinghall

Thanks guys!

It was actually the weekend just there that I was in London. I ended up, due to various factors, spending the entire day in the British Library. I already knew about the Terror & Wonder exhibition; it was the main reason I was going there. But...

I also took in a tour of the library itself. Amazing. Two factors came together for me while I was there: because it was Sunday morning, only three people (myself & an elderly American couple) bought tickets for the tour; and because it was Sunday, all of the public library proper (the reading rooms & staff rooms, etc) were totally empty. The tour is scheduled to take just over an hour, but because it was just the four of us & I had a stupid amount of questions --the tour guy took well over two hours taking us about & chatting. We basically got a special tour. What a place! It was, I have to admit, a bibliophiles dream...

BH