The Anonymous Widower

Bison to Bedlam or How To Make Friends

CrossRail is the biggest project in Europe and sometimes I get annoyed with it, as the works in the City around Liverpool Street do cause a lot of diversions to the 21 and141 buses I use to get to a lot of places. Sometimes, I call the project AngryRail as that’s how it makes me feel.

But they know the problems they are causing and they do their best to mitigate them, be it by green walls or other means.

I have just received an e-mail from the company about the staging of their pop-up exhibition; Bison to Bedlam for a month in October.

They are giving talks on the Wednesdays and offering prizes for visitors.

Prize 1:
A Young Friends pass from the British Museum – includes annual YF Membership (the child receives magazines, a birthday card etc), two tickets to sleepover in the museum, two tickets to attend an activity event organised at the museum.
 
Prize 2:
An annual family membership card that covers entry into the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, the Banqueting House Kensington Palace and Kew Palace.

They don’t seem to me to be bad prizes.

My only worry about the exhibition is that if the numbers who turned up at the pop-up version is anything to go by, is a month long enough?

When they have completed the railway, and collected a lot more valuable finds, they all need to be properly displayed, together with displays about the engineering. Perhaps there should be a CrossRail museum at Whitechapel?

September 15, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Archaeology, Crossrail, Museum, Trains