London’s CultureLine Summer Discovery Weekend

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CultureLine, a partnership of 10 museums along the new London Overground East London Line, have announced a Summer Discovery Weekend, 6-8 August.

The programme features exhibitions, costumed characters, guided walks and live music. From natural history to local history, international contemporary art to engineering masterpieces there are events for all interests and ages.

The action-packed weekend will kick off with a preview event at the Whitechapel Gallery on Thursday 5 August - a talk on Alice Neel: Painted Truth the first major retrospective of the influential painter, featuring a portrait of Andy Warhol previously unseen in the UK. Further highlights include:

See George Washington’s false teeth and find out more about the Elephant Man at the Royal London Hospital Museum

Get hands on at BodyTalk, an exhibition for all the family featuring installations created by East London artists at Hackney Museum

Explore the inventive ways in which the suffragettes used the postal system during their campaign for the vote at Fe:MAIL: Suffragettes and the Post at the Women’s Library

Celebrate the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ during the Thames Tunnel Fancy Fair at the Brunel Museum

Enjoy live music from Caribbean Steel International and garden games from Victorian times to the present day at the Geffrye Museum

Join the Horniman Museum for Africa Live! and immerse yourself in a continent of culture, music, food and drink

Go on a guided tour of one of London’s most iconic lost buildings, the Crystal Palace, with the Crystal Palace Museum


What: CultureLine Summer Discovery Weekend
Where: 10 museums and galleries along the new London Overground East London route
When: Friday 6 - Sunday 8 August 2010

CultureLine partner addresses (North to South) -
Hackney Museum, Reading Lane, E8 1GQ
Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, E2 8EA
Wesley’s Chapel, City Road, EC1Y 1AU
The Royal London Hospital Museum, Whitechapel Road, E1 1BB
Whitechapel Gallery, Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
The Women's Library, Old Castle Street, E1 7NT
Brunel Museum, Railway Avenue, SE16 4LF
Horniman Museum, London Road, SE23 3PQ
Crystal Palace Museum, Anerley Hill, SE19 2BA
Museum of Croydon, Katharine Street, CR9 1ET