Smokingboot

I would love to see that - just for the live butterflies (though London does have a large butterfly house already, I have not been there). Suzette can't stand them though - while I used to sit in fields (before I started suffering from terrible hay fever) and let butterflies settle on me, she tends to run from them as she hates creepy crawlies.

I must confess though that I liked the old style Natural History museum with its rows of cases of stuffed animals and butterflies mounted on boards far more than the new 'interactive' one. I liked being able to stop and examine a specimen at my leisure ( as an artist its incredibly valuable), and the pervading sense of morbid collectivity had a strange appeal to my darker side... oddly, by removing all the death they have made it rather lifeless and sterile for me.