To the British Museum to see the outstanding gold jewellery and ornaments, and other exceptional finds from Afghanistan's National Museum. These objects, some dating to c2000BC, were hidden away by museum staff at the time of the Soviet occupation, for safe keeping, and have only recently been brought back into view. In contrast at the Foundling Museum, a couple of streets or three away, are the pieces of fabric and other tokens given by mothers to identify their children which they took to the Foundling Hospital in the hope that the Hospital would be able to look after them. Time again to reflect on the poignancy and meaning of objects.
Nicola Bell