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How TfL’s simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales

25-04-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Transport for London (TfL) has seen a drop in the sale of paper tickets after it made a small change to the ticket machines in London Underground stations.
The change took place last September during a routine fares update to the ticket machines, and the sales of paper tickets dropped overnight by around a third compared to how many were being sold before.
However, that was entirely intentional.The change was deliberate, intended to reduce the sale of paper tickets by encouraging people to use c

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Pioneering female painter’s portraits return to their Pall Mall birthplace

25-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

When a gallery decided to put on an exhibition about one of Britain’s earliest female portrait painters, they had no idea that their galley sits on the same spot where many of the portraits were originally painted.The painter is Mary Beale, born in a Suffolk village in 1633 to parents who had an interest in art, which they clearly passed onto their daughter, who was later to forge a career as a full-time portrait painter at a time when a woman painter was almost unheard of.
The father prob

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Last few weeks to visit – Science Museum to close its domestic appliance gallery

25-04-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A large nostalgia filled space in the Science Museum will be closing soon, giving you just a few weeks to sigh with oh so many wistful memories
The gallery, in the museum’s basement, is all about household appliances — and it’s marvellous.Who would have thought that toasters, irons, kettles, televisions and washing machines could be so fascinating to look at? Yet, these domestic appliances are at once familiar — for a radio is, after all, a radio, and a washing machine ha

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UCL museums receive £2.4m funding boost

25-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Research England has awarded the cluster of museums based at University College London (UCL) a five-year £2.4 million grant to support their work. The four museums are the Grant Museum, the Petrie Museum, the UCL Art Museum and UCL’s Pathology Museum.The UCL museums and collections comprise over 200,000 objects, which are both used for academic study and also as part of the free museums for the public to visit.
The Grant and Petrie museums are open Tuesday through Saturday in the aft

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Inside the Royal Parks nursery: From organic innovations to scented surprises

25-04-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

If you wander around the centre of Hyde Park you might occasionally catch a whiff of chips and the ocean as if you’re visiting the seaside — an unexpected side effect of an organic nursery in the centre of the park.This is the huge Royal Parks plant nursery, where over a quarter of a million plants are grown every year. The nursery has also seen a lot of changes in recent years, including bringing the staffing in-house, moving to organic horticulture, and opening the nursery to appre

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