Absinthe — “there is no spirit so notoriously favoured by the rebellious minds of art & literature”. We begin the night with a choice of specialised Absinthe cocktails (£10 each) or Absinthe tasting set menu (£25). Then we can head downstairs into what is sure to be the most weird, scary and shocking museum you’ve ever seen. Last time I saw a gold coated hippo skull that belonged to Pablo Escobar, Russell Brands pubic hairs and shrunken human heads from Papa New Guinea. I also ate dried insects & held a tarantula but apparently the insect menu is no longer available. The museum is full of (not so) fine art and occult artefacts. From rare priceless marvels of the natural and scientific worlds like Dodo Bones or speculum to the intriguing beauty of McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys, from old master etchings to prison inmates & mad women’s doodles, occultists paintings and pop art prints, the horrors and wonders of nature, two headed kittens and living coral. By placing the rare and the beautiful on the same plane as the commonplace, banal & amusing this museum seeks not to educate but to subvert, to show the world not in a grain of sand, but in a Hackney basement. The Museum has no overreaching aim beyond the theft of it’s visitors time and the hope that it will provide amusement by return & hopes to fill the vacuum between what the establishment elite believes is worthy of worship & what exists in the world. This is sure to be a very unique and strange experience but hopefully the absinthe & good company helps us get through it! {2 spaces left in the reservation :) }

Jax Jackson

Event host

Support for American Foundation For Suicide Prevention

£35 raised