The Viktor Wynd Museum Of Curiosities, Fine Art and UnNatural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP. Paid entry

Details

Accessibility

"There is free parking in the loading bay outside of our venue on Mare Street on Sundays."

Brief description

"The Last Tuesday Society presents the first all encompassing museum to open in London since the Horniman in 1901. The Museum will present an incoherent vision of the world displayed through wonder enclosed within a tiny space, no attempt is made at classification and comprehensiveness, instead the museum focuses on the pre-enlightenment origins of the museum as Wunderkabinett – a mirror to a world so suffused with miracles and beauty that any attempt at categorization is bound to fail.

Where contemporary museumology hides 90% of a collection, attempts to educate and explain, to put the world into neat little labeled drawers dictated by an obscurantist elite establishment that has shown itself in error many time over the centuries & is obsessed with a pedantic overspecialization of so called “knowledge” that means little or nothing to anyone outside it’s narrow little field & oft discredited metanarratives this museum will merely display everything that has glittered & caught the eye of it’s founder – from rare priceless marvels of the natural and scientific worlds like Dodo Bones or speculum to the intriguing beauty of McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys, from old master etchings to prison inmates & mad women’s doodles, occultists paintings and pop art prints, the horrors and wonders of nature, two headed kittens and living coral.

By placing the rare and the beautiful on the same plane as the commonplace, banal & amusing this museum seeks not to educate but to subvert, to show the world not in a grain of sand, but in a Hackney basement. The Museum has no overreaching aim beyond the theft of it’s visitors time and the hope that it will provide amusement by return & hopes to fill the vacuum between what the establishment elite believes is worthy of worship & what exists in the world."

See https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Guide-Book-May-for-web.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Viktor_Wynd_Museum_of_Curiosities,_Fine_Art_%26_Natural_History

2025: "The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History is a museum and bar in Hackney, situated in a former call centre on Mare Street in the London Borough of Hackney.[1][2] It is operated by Viktor Wynd[3] and part of The Last Tuesday Society and was funded on Kickstarter in 2015.[4]

The museum collection includes classic curiosities such as hairballs, two headed lambs and Fiji mermaids, its art collection spans several centuries including the largest collection of work by Austin Osman Spare on public display and what is reputed to be the country's largest collection of work by the Anglo-Mexican surrealist Leonora Carrington.[citation needed] The museum's natural history collection includes dodo bones and extinct bird feathers, as well as much taxidermy and the skeleton of a giant anteater. It has a section dedicated to the Dandy, including Sebastian Horsley's nails from his crucifixion and drawings and archive material to do with Stephen Tennant, a collection of human remains including shrunken heads, Tribal Skulls, dead babies in bottles and parts of pickled sex workers, tribal art collected in The Congo and New Guinea by the proprietor, fossils, and scientific and medical instruments.[5] It also displays celebrity faecal matter, erotica[6] and condoms used by the Rolling Stones. The contents of the museum are insured for £1 million.[7] The museum is generally open to the public but is occasionally hired out for private events.[8]

The Museum holds regular exhibitions of artists including Alasdair Gray, Mervyn Peake, Gunter Grass,[9] Robin Ironside[10] and English Surrealists.[11] "

Address

The Viktor Wynd Museum Of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP

Email

info@thelasttuesdaysociety.org

Phone

0208 533 5297

Website

https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/museum/

Directions

"There is free parking in the loading bay outside of our venue on Mare Street on Sundays."

Opening Times

Always check with the venue directly for up-to-date information including opening times and admission charges as they may be subject to change

2025: "The Museum is open Tuesday - Friday 15:00-22:00 and Saturday & Sunday 12:00-22:00"

Transport

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