Bloomsbury is characterised by beautiful squares like this one, was home to many intellectuals like the Bloomsbury Group and its mayor tourist attraction is the British Museum.On my way today through Bloomsbury I visited the Wellcome Collection, a stunning exhibition of historical health- and healthcare-related objects, among them Peruan mummies, a shrunken head, Inuit snow googles, Florence Nightingale's moccasins, a curl of George III and one of Napoleon Bonaparte (in both samples the scientists found traces of arsenic) and many more curiosities.
Unfortunately, Napoleon's toothbrush was on loan to a museum in the Netherlands for an exhibition called Say cheese!
Another collection of curiosities can be found in the window of the bookshop Jarndyce. It's well known for its display of bizarre antiquarian books with titles such as Correctly English in Hundred Days, Fish who answer the telephone and other studies in experimental biology, How to loose 30,000,000 Pounds, You can make a Stradivarius Violin or How to be happy though married.
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