On our recent trip to Marrakesh we came across this small museum in the Medina. It’s near a nice park and worth a visit. Apopogises for the glare in the photos – there was a lot of glass about.
Not in the museum but in the Medina…
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Marrakesh Telecoms Museum
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Phone boxes bring people together
Here is an excellent little story, in the form of screenshots, from Susan Calman, appearing recently on QI.
Images taken by me.
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I’ve been squirrelling away phone things…
Greenhouse phone house
Visited the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, London, yesterday. They’ve done a very cool thing with the phonebox at the front of the property – turned it into a greenhouse.
Yorkshire Dales
We had a few days in the Yorkshire Dales recently and I was happy to see that the phone box is still very much a part of the landscape.
Here are a few from the Dales in general…
Settle in particular was an excellent find (and referenced in a much earlier post on this blog) – a mini art gallery and the only speaking phone I’m aware of. The voice of George Horner, a Signalman for many years on the Settle-Carlisle Railway, can be heard by dialing the phone. His oral history stories are part of the Bill Mitchell archive and cover a variety of topics such as dealing with snow and tea-making at the signal box. Apologises for the glare on some of the photos.
An update: I found the image below in the Science Museum files. It appears to be an AA telephone handset. Perhaps it was installed inside boxes such as the Aysgarth one shown above?
Guerrilla initiative utilising phone boxes
From The Guardian, Oliver Basciano, 20 Oct 2025
Now 600 strong, the Artist Membership Project is helping young artists see exhibitions while dodging hefty entry fees at top British institutions. We meet the founder of the scheme.
On a railing, not far from Tate Modern, is a lockbox. Enter a code and inside is a membership card to the museum, enabling free access to its temporary exhibitions. You get your ticket, you return the card.
The Artist Membership Project, much to the ire of the city’s arts institutions, has been operating for three months with more than 600 members, mostly artists and recent graduates. Curator Ben Broome, who describes the guerrilla initiative as “part mutual aid project, part artwork”, estimates that those signed up have saved thousands of pounds in museum entry fees.
For the full article please go to The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/20/clandestine-guerrilla-scheme-letting-skint-artists-mass-share-gallery-membership-cards
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Pictogram
From ‘Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs’ the current exhibition at Japan House in London.
