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Richard Crowley <rcrowley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I know this is off-topic here, but this is the highest UK-
> participation newsgroup that I read regularly. If there is
> a better newsgroup (or other source) please redirect me
> and accept my apologies.
> I saw a TV show last week on the "Tech of James Bond
> movies" and they mentioned a spy museum in London,
> which I believe they claimed was across the street (which?)
> from the National ****trait Gallery I tried many Google searches
> and other London info websites but turned up nothing at all
> except an exhibit at the War Museum.
That's probably it. I can't think of anything even close to the NPG - a
little book which I have called "London Museums" refers to 'a strangely
uncritical and quite large exhibition on covert operations' at the
Imperial
War Museum
> I will be leaving for London tomorrow with a tour of one
> of the choirs I sing with, and we have most of Saturday,
> 05-July to spend in London. I would really love to see
> this museum if it really exists. Or perhaps it is secret and
> requires spy-like a***en to prove that one is worthy of
> visiting it? :-)
> Alternately, other recommendations for London visits
> are solicited. I visited the Theatre Museum on my last
> visit (~8 years ago) and found it interesting, but my
> interests run more to the technical and less the statge-
> craft (costumes, sets, etc.)
The Theatre Museum has been closed for well over a year, so don't try and
go back.
The newly re-opened London Trans****t Museum in Covent Garden might fit the
bill.
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