Museums
The Vatican
The sun has only just risen in Rome and we are standing bleary-eyed in a short queue outside the Vatican.…
Starry cast
The great municipal museums are products of the 19th-century imagination, evidence of lofty ambitions and cringe-making limitations. They are exact…
The Spectator’s Notes
At the impressive Westminster Abbey vigil to mark the centenary of the first world war on Monday night, there was…
Private passions
In the past ten years museums of modern and contemporary art have proliferated around the world. New institutions have appeared…
