The Museum of Everything

London's Biggest Outsider Art Museum

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This new art venue, opened in October 2009, contains the biggest collection of outsider art in London, and maybe the world.

"Outsider Art" is a term used to describe art made outside of the mainstream art world, by individuals who did not receive traditional artistic training. In reality, this often means art made by the clinically insane, hermits, criminals, or obsessive-compulsive individuals.

The Museum of Everything has a fascinating collection and is a peek into the mind of madmen, and next to each artist's works is a commentary by a well-known contemporary artist.

The museum is located in the Primrose Hill area of London, a short walk from the Camden Town markets and Regent's Park

The current 2010 exhibition at the features Sir Peter Blake's private collections of art curios, taxidermy and memorabilia.

This time the idea of non-traditional art is being extended to include not only Blake's collections but other categories and collections of self-taught creativity that share similar themes and a similar aesthetic.

One such example is Potter's Museum of Curiosity. Begun in 1861 by Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter, the final collection amounted to 6,000 stuffed animals, many arranged in elaborate and quirky tableaux, such as 'The Guinea Pigs' Cricket Match' featuring 34 guinea pigs in a country cricket game and school classroom of rabbits.

"The Museum of Everything has returned to London with Exhibition #3, a glorious new show which has welcomed over 15,000 visitors since October and been voted Critics' Choice for six incredible weeks in Time Out.

Our partner-in-crime this year is Sir Peter Blake, the godfather of British pop art and a collector par excellence, whose accumulations of self-taught art, found objects and anonymous artefacts fill his work, life and soul.
Exhibition #3 reveals his incredible discoveries for the very first time, as the museum’s Primrose Hill space becomes a canvas for the largest most ambitious art installation ever created by this non-stop septuagenarian.

Marvel at our assemblies of Punch and Judy and little people! Bedazzle yourself with side-show banners from the Americas! Ride the miniature fairgrounds of retired Norfolk farmer Arthur Windley! Stuff yourself at Walter Potter's Museum of Curiosity, a masterwork of Victorian animalia!"

Exhibition #3' is open from October 13-December 24 2010

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The museum is located near the corner of Regents Park Road and Sharpleshall Street in Primrose Hill, London NW1. Just walk past the library and we are the next building along.

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