Virtual Soirée Recording store
Not a Conley & Silvers Member, but want access to our Recording Library? Good news, we are making our past tour recordings available for purchase to all of our C&S friends!
With over 50 lectures already in the library, new tours will be added at the conclusion of each Virtual Soirée series. Recordings are available as a set of multiple tours packaged at a discounted rate averaging $10 per tour. Peruse the selection below and select the subject of your choice for access to stream our virtual tours online until September 30, 2022.
For an example tour, see this complimentary recording of a past talk where celebrated author Ross King joined us to discuss Monet’s Water Lilies as wartime paintings. Better yet, check-out the kind words by our loyal C&S fans here.
Mini Museums Soirée with Sophie Campbell
Mini Museums Soirée with Sophie Campbell
Your purchase includes four tour recordings. Upon purchase, you will be emailed a link where you can download a PDF of your recording list! This PDF will have descriptions, links and passwords to the tour recordings, and will expire on December 31, 2021.
Sophie will take us to her favourite small museums in the capital: often ones you've never heard of, in places you may never have been to, which makes them even more special. We'll hear the background to the museums - what's it about? Why here? What are the best things to see? - and we'll also have interviews with the curators, who will join us on Zoom for the talk and the Q&A.
Topics
William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow: This fine collection occupies the rather grand (for
an early Socialist) childhood home of the driven, workaholic polymath who tried to turn back the tide of industrialisation and bring craftsmanship back into the English home. Designer, furniture maker, printer, factory owner and founder of one of the first Socialist groups in Britain - meet Mr Morris.Florence Nightingale Museum, Waterloo: Florence Nightingale Museum, Waterloo: arguably the world's most famous nurse, Nightingale was a well-born young woman who refused to conform and went on to set up not only her famous hospital at Scutari but also the world's first nursing school at St Thomas's Hospital, originally in east London but now in Waterloo.
Handel & Hendrix in London: This atmospheric Mayfair house had a famous first tenant - none other than George Frideric Handel - who lived here for 36 years of a stratospheric musical career. Some 250 years later, a new tenant arrived next door, Jimi Hendrix, who, when he found out about Handel, went out and bought his albums, including Messiah. In 2016 Handel and Hendrix in London opened as a joint museum, revealing some surprising similarities between the two musicians.
Garden Museum, Lambeth: Next to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s London palace, beside the River Thames, sits a mediaeval church that houses an extraordinary museum. Just near here lived the Tradescants, father and son, who were gardeners to the Stuart monarchs and avid collectors in their own right, and their tomb is in the graveyard. So it seems appropriate that this is now home to the Garden Museum, which celebrates all things English gardening and has recently been refurbished with a new cafe, shop and garden.