Heard some of the ‘History of the World in 100 Objects’ programmes on the radio? Well all 100 reside at the British Museum, and they are running their own series of more in-depth ‘H of W in 100 Os’ museum talks. I recently attended one, a free and exceptionally good presentation about the Mold Gold Cape – giving a breadth of understanding to the picture of people across Europe at the time, and how the cape fitted into this.  We then spent several hours wandering around the ‘H of W’ objects – there is far too much to take in in the whole BM in a day, so just focusing on the ‘H of W’ objects is an ideal way to get a glimpse of the treasures across all the BM’s galleries. There’s a special map that pinpoints the ‘H of W’ objects, and the BM is spreading the focus over several months by highlighting them in three batches – the first 30 were highlighted at the start of 2010, the next batch of 40 were added in May, and the final 30 will be covered in the autumn. Even just looking at 30 or so of these will take you several hours. Sadly for those that like to see all the good things in a museum, this is thoroughly impossible in the British Museum – the problem is the sheer quality of the collection.