Sunday 26 June 2011

This is a shop front in Stoke Newington in London. These older shop signs are a fast-vanishing remnant of the 1960s and 1970s. The dated terms used in them was originally intended to suggest the shop's racy modernity, but now evoke a sense of nostalgia.

Sunday 19 June 2011



Here's the latest addition to the collection at the Museum of Miniature Found Objects. It's a miniature Easter egg, found on Eltham Common at 3.01pm on Sunday 15 May, as part of an Easter egg hunt. The donor, Reginald McGuiver, was pursued by a group of angry parents as he ran from the park.

The Museum staff have been thrilled to hear recently of another similar museum in Mijas in Spain, the Carromato de Max, whose collection contains some of the smallest objects in the world, such as Churchill's head sculpted from a stick of chalk and a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper painted on a grain of rice. The Museum of Miniature Found Objects looks forward to forging links with this sister collection.

Sunday 12 June 2011


Steve Bell is currently exhibiting at the Cartoon Museum in Little Russell Street. As the political cartoonist at the Guardian he uses a mordant humour to expose the sham in political life. This cartoon is one of the panels from a strip he had running whilst the ban on fox-hunting in England was being debated in Parliament, with a vast amount of hot air being generated by the pro-hunting lobby. There are no sacred cows in Bell's observations, and he doesn't pull his punches.

Sunday 5 June 2011



The Museum of Miniature Found Objects takes great pleasure in announcing its latest acquisition. This plastic brain was submitted by Ms M. Hewlett of London, and was found at 2.01pm on Saturday 21 May on the corner of Ravenscourt Gardens and Ravenscourt Park in west London.

The Submissions Committee is delighted by this first donation, and welcomes all applications from members of the public.