The British Museum already contains a number of spectacular collections and quite frequently holds a number of additional special exhibitions, with the latest ones being a large collection of Michelangelo’s Drawings. Special exhibitions at the British Museum are typically very popular since they are extremely short lived, and this one is no exception. I ended up buying tickets online as I have tried twice to ‘drop in’ only to find out that all of the tickets for the day had sold out.

This special exhibition draws together a number of collective works from a number of other museums and I believe, is the first time ever to have been amassed as such, and displayed to the public. The drawings depict a number of stages through Michelangelo’s career – and demonstrate quite heavily the amount of planning and effort he put into all of his physical works such as the statue of David, the Sistine Chapel and …

The museum did an excellent job of laying out the collection with all of them intimately described and large walls nearby used to group them together by theme. As you walk through the collection, you go through all stages of his life and career. I found it interesting to see how much he achieved, and was interested by the teachings he had later on, and the work that he started on St. Peter’s in Rome before passing away. Each piece is lit well despite the need to keep them under certain standards, and though many of them are not very big, I found it quite easy to see the entire collection within an hour, though you do have to watch out for the crowds inside that make it difficult to see all of the drawings.

It’s an amazing opportunity to see the manifestation of someone so well known, and though I’m not sure I could recommend it to everyone, but I still found it an impressive collection.