The exhibition is housed in the seven hundred year old Confucius Temple museum complex close to the Forbidden City, which has recently been open to the public as a tourist attraction. The exhibition, which highlights the changes that London has gone through in the last 170 years, spans the story of photography. It was curated by Mike Seaborne, who drew on the Museum's extensive photographic collection and commissioned additional images from the Museum's photographers.
This exhibition is an important part of London's presence at the Beijing Olympics and will be visited by the Prime Minister and the Mayor on 24 August, when the Mayor of London receives the Olympic flag from the Mayor of Beijing.
Museum of London will also have a significant presence in the London House, the London pavilion at the Beijing Games, which will be decorated with images from our collections and the Olympic Torch from 1948. -- www.molg.org.uk
