‘ not economically viable to run it as such and it fell into decay before being re-opened as a museum. John noted that it was in bad condition when he last saw it some six years ago’ in Writers thread has made me think about all the museums, exhibitions and galleries etc that I have seen in my life.

It dawned upon me that the most decayed were among the most memorable.
Even though it is said that the first cut is the deepest, visits to London in the early 1960s are too far back to easily describe in any detail.

But, I can remember visiting a Museum at Tring in 1969 and being quite impressed by the spectacular moth-eaten tattyness of a gorilla stuffed with wood-shavings that I saw there that probably dated to the late 1800s and wondered if others have similar memories.