The Museum of London has swapped the phrases round and has been renamed the London Museum as a part of plans to reopen of their new Smithfield web site late subsequent yr.
In addition they have a pigeon because the museum emblem.
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In a manner, it’s a return to previous instances, because the Museum of London was created in 1976 from the merger of the Metropolis of London’s Guildhall Museum and the London Museum, which itself was created in April 1912 by King George V, initially inside Kensington Palace whereas it appeared for a long run house.
Later, in 1976, the 2 museums merged and opened in a brand new web site on London Wall within the Metropolis of London because the Museum of London.
The London Wall web site was all the time a little bit of a compromise and famously stated to be troublesome to search out from road degree, in order that web site closed in December 2022, and a alternative is being inbuilt Smithfield’s previous markets, a couple of minutes from Farringdon station.
That new museum is because of open on the finish of 2025/early 2026.
It had already been introduced that when the brand new museum opens, it is going to be generally known as the London Museum and that its outpost in Canary Wharf was to be renamed the London Museum Docklands early final yr.
The rebranding occurred as we speak.
And the museum, whose emblem was as soon as Dick Whittington and his cat, then three overlapping wiggles for his or her three divisions (Metropolis, Docklands, MOLA), will now have a pigeon as its emblem.
And a splat of pigeon shit, coated in glitter.
The pondering behind the emblem is right here.
They’ve additionally relaunched their web site with it’s new web site deal with and design.
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