The Museum of Everything

If you haven't checked it out already,you should definitely get up to 'the museum of everything' in chalk farm near camden. The name is kind of self explanatory but their collection is anything but obvious. Their third exhibition has just opened and it is just as interesting and eccentric as the first. This particular exhibit was curated by Peter Blake and is essentially a platform where he can share his funny ,unusual and strangley endearing collections of various items with the world. The exhibition ranges from old painted cloth for circus shows,to match boxes,shell animals,dwarf postcards,strange mechanical machines and of course the Walter Potter collection,which was beautiful. Only two pieces of the potter works are owned by Peter Blake and the rest have been borrowed from various people all over the world so as to recreate the Potter Collection which used to be situated in Brighton.

The best bit of the whole day and maybe the thing that excited me the most was going to the Peter Blake talk. He spoke with Polly Morgan and Errol Fuller about the anthropormorphic taxidermist Walter Potter and the meaning and signifance behind his work. It was lovely to be involved in an intimate setting where you could ask Peter Blake questions and listen to the debate. The talk really helped me to grasp my own understanding of the exhibition and I'm so excited I got to see Peter Blake in the flesh. He looks just like my grandad!

"the kittens wedding" Walter Potter