Watts Gallery - Artists' Village

'A hidden treasure in Compton in Surrey, stuffed with huge allegorical paintings and sparkling portraits that were the talk of Victorian society' — Maev Kennedy, The Guardian

 
 First opening its doors to the public in 1904, Watts Gallery is a purpose-built art gallery created to display the works of the great Victorian artist G F Watts. Watts holds a unique position within British art, as he found critical acclaim in his own time and was admired by his fellow artists, both at home and abroad, and was popularly adored, allowing him the public platform to explore his idea of a poet-painter who could preach eternal truths and provoke social reform.
Unfortunately I couldn't take any photo inside and I respect that. I spent very nice time there

The blue whale in Hintze Hall in Natural History Museum

The Museum has named the female blue whale Hope, as a symbol of humanity's power to shape a sustainable future. Blue whales were hunted to the brink of extinction in the twentieth century, but were also one of the first species that humans decided to save on a global scale.

The whale will be joined in Hintze Hall by hundreds of new specimens and 10 star specimens chosen to celebrate the wonder and beauty of the natural world, from the origins of the universe to the story of evolution and diversity in the world today.

 

The skeleton now on display in Hintze Hall is from a whale that became stranded in 1891 in Wexford Harbour, Ireland, 10 years after the Museum opened in South Kensington. It was bought by the Museum and first displayed in the Mammal Hall in 1934, where it was suspended above a life-size model of a blue whale, though it was not in full view. 

Richard Sabin, the Museum's leading whale expert, says:

'Whales are incredibly mysterious and behaviourally complex creatures, as well as being the giants of the ocean. I remember visiting the Museum as a child and being amazed when I came face-to-face with the blue whale skeleton we are now unveiling in Hintze Hall.

The House on the Hill Toy Museum

The House on the Hill Toy Museum is one of country’s most popular visitor attractions for both young and old. It contains the largest toy collection in the world with toys from the Victorian era right up to the 1990s. Over 70,000 individual items from trains, lead and tin toys, Meccano, Action Man and Sindy to Raleigh Choppers, teddy bears, annuals, games, dolls and dolls houses. I enjoyed this place so much. It remains me my young age. I remember this toys very much I had some of them and was happy to play with them.