We are shouting from the roof tops about Sound Walk Sunday that launches on Sunday 1 September and runs throughout the following month. We thought it was only fair to give our co-producers and partners a chance to tell you a little about who they are and their interest in supporting Sound Walk Sunday. First […]
The first of September marks the first day of Spring in the southern Hemisphere and is celebrated in Australia as Wattle Day. Although the Museum of Walking resides in the northern hemisphere, we are keen to celebrate the 1st of September as well. Sound Walk Sunday, on the first of September 2019 will be the […]
One Small Step Watched by a global TV audience of over 500 million, astronaut Neil Armstrong was seen to clamber down the rungs of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module and say the words “that’s one small step for a man, giant leap for mankind”. It had been a thrilling build up, all summer in 1969 […]
We have started this week with a spring in our step, not least because of a fantastic full house for our seasonal opener with Paul Wood exploring the urban forest in Herne Hill where the cherry-tree lined streets were such a draw. Former Southwark Councillor, Robin Crookshank-Hilton, who was pivotal in getting Winterbrook Road lined […]
This week we have issued an Open Call for new walking pieces to be included in Sound Walk Sunday which this year will take place on Sunday 1st September and during the week following. Hand-held digital technologies are ubiquitous and add another dimension for the creative to work in developing enhanced walking experiences. We believe […]
Andrew Stuck, founder of the Museum of Walking writes “When I was a child, I was told to remember the 3 Rs: reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic. I never understood why you needed to remember, or to remember them in this ungrammatical way. These days, as we mangle the English language to fit a Tweet, text […]
400 years ago that little bit of London called St James‘ was an orchard – King James I brought mulberry trees (and other fruiters) from the Languedoc regions in France, creating a demonstration orchard, with which he hoped to encourage the ‘landed gentry’ to create their own mulberry orchards. There are plenty of myths surrounding […]
As we try to unravel fact from fiction, whether it is the novels she wrote or her autobiography, Dame Muriel Spark led us on an obscure trail in Kensington. Once well established as a literary author, in the 1980s she wrote two novels, on reflection set in Kensington in the 1950s: “A Far Cry from […]
Transfer of assets to the community is an expression we have encountered a few times this past week – sounds fairly inconsequential until you begin to unravel what this might mean, and who within the community will be the beneficiaries. We listened to Bob Gilbert, author of “Ghost Trees” and former Islington Borough Parks officer […]
On Monday Andrew Stuck, Museum founder and Producer of Talking Walking, went to a talk by Satish Kumar at Alternatives, in Piccadilly, London. Now in his 80s, smiling and looking as young as ever, he spoke eloquently, about how peace is a way of life not just an opposite of war. Explaining that he was inspired […]
