When visitors come to London’s National Gallery it is an overload to the senses. There are so many styles, so many characters, so many stories. There is too much to take in! Well, let me tell you where you might start…. As the famous song says… ‘Start at the very beginning…!’ When entering via the modern Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery you are introduced to some of the earliest paintings.

With the news that the Natural History Museum (NHM) has surpassed the British Museum in visitor numbers (seven million as opposed to six million a year) a new focus on the collection of dinosaur fossils and models has started. Many of the dinosaur models were gifts from Andrew Carnegie, who was born in Scotland and never forgot his British roots. They include the model of a Diplodocus (‘Dippy’) which used to be seen as you entered the NHM.