Over the rainy weekend I watched Bringing Up Baby (1938) starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. The opening and closing scenes are staged in a Natural History Museum complete with brontosaurus skeleton and other badly crafted props:



It reminded me of some other interesting uses of the museum building in cinema.
Blackmail, Alfred Hitchcock (1929)
The final chase scene leads the viewer through the Ancient Egypt Hall of the British Museum:


Viaggio In Italia, Roberto Rossellini (1953)
I am pretty sure there are 200,000000 dissertations already written on this subject! It'd surely be fun to research.

Flint Knapping Demonstration & Primitive Tools Workshop
Images from the workshop day I organised as part of my residency at Landguard Fort, June 2011
Will Lord, an expert in flint knapping and prehistoric technology demonstrated his skills

Installation of objects at Landguard Fort, 2011

Amulets (bird mouth)
filed bone, varnish, ink

Tools
bone, ink, lacquer

Hand Axe
resin

Hand Axe, Quoits
resin, lacquer

Tool
weaving tool, yarn, bone, stone

A1 b&w photocopies, heritage centre display board

'Flint & Forgery'
May 28th - June 26th 2011
Landguard Fort, Felixstowe
Images of my exhibition of sculpture and drawing at the English Heritage site - a scheduled ancient monument - in Suffolk
Flint 2011, installation view
Ink, acrylic, flint stone

Flint 2011
Ink, flint stone (click to enlarge detail)

Flint 2011
Acrylic, ground and polished flint stone