The Museum of London Group is a public body based in the City of London. Since 1 April 2008 it has been funded jointly by the Greater London Authority and the City of London Corporation. Prior to this date is was jointly controlled by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the City Corporation.
It comprises:
- the Museum of London at London Wall in the City of London;
- the Museum in Docklands on West India Quay, near Canary Wharf;
- the Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS);
- the London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre, (LAARC) located in Mortimer Wheeler House in Hackney.
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“I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
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I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement.
People want to push the buttons and see me glow.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“Always clung to by barnacles.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 2661, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“I think this be the most villainous house in all London road for fleas.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The world’s second metropolis. In the brick houses and the dingy lamplight and the voices of a group of boys kidding and quarreling on the steps of a house opposite, in the regular firm tread of a policeman, he felt a marching like soldiers, like a sidewheeler going up the Hudson under the Palisades, like an election parade, through long streets towards something tall white full of colonnades and stately. Metropolis.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)