indulge me while I go off topic

I promise I will get back to posting pictures of pretty museums soon! I'm off to London tomorrow, so who knows, I might end up at the British Museum again! Here's hoping (although it's my boyfriend's birthday so we may have to go where he wants to go, which I fear will not be to trawl round galleries he's already been forced to walk around twice...).

Anyway I'm currently in the middle of reading for my Extended Essay, which is on what archaeology can tell us about 10th century Byzantium, and is scary because it's he first piece of work that actually counts towards my final degree mark. Anyway I was working in the Sackler library, and I noticed that they had a trolley near the entrance marked 'duplicates, free books, merry Xmas!'. Cute. Most of their offerings were obscure foreign language archaeology journals, however between them I found THIS 

It's a guide to the Fitzwilliam Museum, from 1954. Inside it has a historical introduction, information on the galleries and departments, and a floor plan: 

Excuse the bad photo.

So whilst I fear it will be completely useless if I were to use it as a guide to the museum today, it's a pretty cool piece of museum history to have, especially considering I picked it up for free! At home I have an early 20th century guide and plan of Corbridge Roman Site that I picked up completely by chance in the Oxford branch of Oxfam books on St Giles, so perhaps this can be the second part of a future collection! A museum of museum guides...or something.