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> Also, The British Museum is one of the greatest places on earth. I second that opinion, but suggest that the museum's deserved popularity - especially with t
by samizdis 4y ago
> Also, The British Museum is one of the greatest places on earth.
I second that opinion, but suggest that the museum's deserved popularity - especially with tourists - can often limit enjoyment of the environment, mostly because of queues and crowds.
For those who truly enjoy the BM, as a living, evolving resource and venue to be visited regularly, I'd suggest considering membership. It's £69 a year, and grants free access to otherwise paid exhibitions/events. It also grants attendance to members-only events outside usual museum hours. There's something really special about wandering the galleries during advent, with no crowds, and listening to live music (quartets, groups of singers etc) while drinking mulled wine and eating mince pies. Attending lectures, too, in which archaelologists and others discuss their digs and finds, is tremendously engaging. There's also a members' room in which to rest up.
For those with children, Young Friends membership for eight- to 15-year-olds is worth considering; I've paid for quite a few kids, and renewed year after year because they got so much out of the activities/experiences. The museum hosts Young Friends sleep-overs - some in the Egyptian section with the mummies.
Membership info: https://www.britishmuseum.org/membership https://www.britishmuseum.org/membership
Young Friends: https://www.britishmuseum.org/membership/young-friends https://www.britishmuseum.org/membership/young-friends
- Ensorceled 4y ago> the museum's deserved popularity - especially with tourists - can often limit enjoyment of the environment I'm always on vacation when in London so I try to go early morning on a weekday. > I'd suggest considering membership. It's £69 a year, and grants free access to otherwise paid exhibitions/events. I get the membership every time, even though I only go every couple of years. Sometimes it gets me into something but it's good to support the place.
- londons_explore 4y ago> good to support the place British people's taxes support the place. Giving them extra money is a bit like throwing some extra cash to help support the police whenever they stop you...
- mod 4y agoI support the police via donations. I doubt it's all that unusual.
- walls 4y agoYou know they already get probably 70% of your cities budget, right?
- cyberlurker 4y agoYou can view this data online and it is normally the schools that take the majority of the budget, and they still don't have enough money either. I have no idea where they live but it is possible their police are in need of donations, unlike perhaps LAPD/NYPD.
- mod 4y agoSince you mentioned it, I looked it up. The sheriff dept I donate to gets about 30% of the county budget. The city police get just over 10% of the city budget.
- bergenty 4y agoIt is unusual. You’re giving donations to a fully state funded entity who get to keep what they seize and have one of the strongest unions in the US? Seems like an absolute waste of money.
- mod 4y agoI donate to the state police retirement fund occasionally, and I donate to the local shop with a sheriff, which I'm actually intending to go to the kids, but of course the sheriff is all about it and the one soliciting donations. My business actually started the shop-with-a-sheriff in this county, although the new sheriff took it over after a couple of years. I waste plenty of money, but I don't particularly feel like I'm wasting it here. You should meet the kids, and the deputies.
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