The Bottom Line
For museum and gallery lovers as well as casual tourists - this book tells you what kinds of galleries, museums and eccentric collections you'll find where you are going and why you will or won't want to visit.
Pros
- Authoritative and complete
- Loads of color illustrations
- Locates small, fascinating collections as well as the giants
Cons
- Might be best for pre-trip planning or armchair travel
- Sometimes you can have too many choices
Description
- Paperback and hardback editions available
- Published by Penguin
- 880 pages
Guide Review - Britains Best Museums and Galleries - A Guide to Collections Around the UK
If you've ever perused the travel pages, read about a fabulous and little known collection and thought, "I was there! Why didn't I know about that?" - then this book is for you.
If you've ever been attracted to a museum or collection briefly described in a general guidebook only to discover a pile of dusty bones or room after room of ancestor paintings in need of a good clean - then this book is for you too.
Author Mark Fisher's encyclopaedic approach provides plenty of information about what to see where you are going, when it's open, what it costs, and how to find it. The author guides you past the dross to the best nuggets of collections all over the UK.
This one is a big book so you might not want to carry it along. Use it, instead, for inspiration when you are planning a trip. It's also a terrific present for an armchair traveler.
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