by Naomi Adams | Oct 28, 2016 | Magic, Museums, Story Telling
Through my letter box there comes by serendipity a review copy of Stephanie Victoire’s fairy tales for grown ups, ‘The Other World, It Whispers’. And though I didn’t know I asked for it I am very pleased to get it, because there’s a definite affinity between...
by Naomi Adams | Sep 26, 2016 | Museums, Story Telling, Writing
So here’s another reason why museums should exist – because they enable novelists and artists (and maybe all of us?) to play imaginative games with ideas around Time and Memory and Remembering and Forgetting and Story. Museums are a gift for novelists. It’s as...
by Naomi Adams | Jun 7, 2016 | Family History, Museums, Story Telling
Where do you keep your past, how do you remember it, and would you care if you forgot it? There is probably no art form as human, as personal, as full of memories and stories as the textile arts. Or so I think as I stand in Gawthorpe Hall in Lancashire on a damp,...
by Naomi Adams | May 6, 2016 | Magic, Museums, Story Telling
We are just back from Turin (city of baroque streets and shops selling hand-made, mens’ pyjamas) where I have fallen in love all over again with the Cinema Museum, for its wit and imagination. (And if you haven’t been already you should go at once.) The Museum...
by Naomi Adams | Jan 4, 2015 | Magic, Museums, Story Telling
Once upon a time, when I was much stroppier than I am now, I would have looked down my nose at adults playing with dolls houses – I thought we should all have more important things to do. But these days I am more tolerant, and also more susceptible to the magic...
