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Horniman Museum

Horniman Museum
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About Horniman Museum

The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a museum in Forest Hill, London, England. Commissioned in 1898, it opened in 1901 and was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Modern Style. It has displays of anthropology, natural history and musical instruments, and is known for its large collection of taxidermied animals. The building is Grade II* listed.

On the show โ€” 4 mentions total

The Horniman Museum in South London weren't getting emails for ages. They had no idea why. It turned out that a new system had been put on their computer system, and it was to filter out any rude words.

from 498: No Such Thing As Internal Eyebrows, 2023-09-28 at 00:18:33 ยท read transcript

Other times Horniman Museum came up

  1. Then in 2009, there's a news report of Manchester Museum hiring a hermit, guess who it is? It's Indian artist Ansuman Biswas again. Then he's done another one. Recently, this year, he was going to do the Horniman Museum in South London and live there. He was going to be locked in their clock tower. Unfortunately, to use everyone staying at home, he was not allowed to become a hermit.

    329: No Such Thing As A Female Cereal Mascot, 2020-07-10 ยท listen

  2. The perfect pet. It's quite weird, isn't it? Because how do you stuff something that doesn't exist? Exactly. This is from an exhibit at the Horniman Museum in South London, which is a great museum. They've got lots of stuff and lots of stuffing. They've got lots of stuff things. They've got these dogs, which they look like dogs, but they're not proper dogs. They're dog skin.

    414: No Such Thing As Miles Davis's Jazzercise Workouts, 2022-02-18 ยท listen

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