07-19-2012, 06:57 PM
Quote:It's like Nouvelle Quisine: there's very little there, dumped on a large plate and drizzled with trendy stuff. To be fair, the upstairs Borders gallery is better than the downstairs Frontier thing (which didn't even have any of the armguards on display last time I was there).I generally think of the two galleries as working together, but I take your point. The features I like downstairs would have worked equally well upstairs, so the Frontiers section does seem a bit redundant.
(Grr, I hadn't realised the arm guards were supposed to be on display! I didn't see them either. That is disappointing.)
Do you take people to the Great North Museum at all? I find that extremely disappointing as I said, so Tullie House probably benefits more in my estimation by comparison...
Quote:In having said that anyone who knows the place well should be aware that I like to visit Vindolanda starting from east to west with the museum first of course.You do get the better view of both the fort and house by coming in from the west in my opinion, but then you do have to walk all the way back uphill afterwards!
