Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (Museum Voor Sierkunst en Vormgeving), Ghent

Advantages: WARNING- LONG REVIEW. Loads to see and do for adults and kids.
Disadvantages: WARNING LONG REVIEW. Poor disabled facilites and cafe.

...-Galleries /Exhibitions-in-2007.en Visit http://www.aboutbritain.com/BristolCityMuseum.htm for infomation on nearby attractions and places to stay, or http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/Leisure-Culture/Museums-Galleries/bri stols-city-museum---art-gallery.en for more on the museum, a car park finder and travel guide.... Read review

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Advantages: Good collection
Disadvantages: Admission expensive

..., with do not touch written on them, you are encouraged to sit in them and evaluate them, and see if these big name twentieth designers were really worth their money. Not like the V&A ( Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington, London) where everything is behind barriers or glass, and you must not touch on pain of death,. The V&A does have a much bigger collection the design museum is tiny in comparison and it only has twentieth century artifacts, but at the V&A you can not touch anything. In terms of facilities the Design museum does reasonably well , there is a café on the first floor overlooking the Thames, which was being re decorated at the time so I have not been in, though it looked pretty reasonable, the usual coffee and snacks I think. Also there is a bookshop specialising in books on design and designers as you would expect... Read review

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Advantages: Good facilities, lots to see, free admission
Disadvantages: There's only one lift

...in the museum covering 3 floors. These are archaeology, arts, ceramics, community history and natural history. Throughout, there are interactive things to do, especially for the younger visitors. There are computers scattered about with touchscreens, various craft things to do such as rubbing over fossils, and there are many items that you can actually touch. Archaeology ----------------- Did you know that there has been 12 000 years of human habitation in Staffordshire ? I didn't until I visited the museum, and I expect that most people from the actual area don't either. The museum staff have excavated, examined and indexed all the items that they have found in the area. You will find artifacts from prehistoric times as well as Roman, medieval and post- medieval relics. To be truthful, this wasn't my favourite part of the museum, but if you... Read review

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