CAT MONUMENTS and MUSEUMS
Cat monuments and museums to visit on your travels include:
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Cat statue, Christmas Pantomime and Film
Dick Whittington's cat, London, England.
Children in England learn the memorable phrase: Turn again, Whittington, Lord Mayor of London.
Dick Whittington was a real person. This model shows his cat. The cat statue was placed on Highgate Hill under a cage to protect it (from accidental traffic damage or vandalism).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Whittington_and_His_Cat
The story of Dick Whittington is popular for pantomime's in London, before Christmas every year during the holidays for families, especially with younger children. It has also been made into a TV film starring well known actors and comedians such as Harry Hill. You can see it on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F87IvUBShY
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Cat Statue
Cat accompanying Captain Matthew Flinders, map-maker in Australia, shown in statue on Euston station, London, England.
Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
Cat Museum
The cat museum is in Kuching, Malaysia, and the word Kuching is Malay for cat. I saw lots of stories about cats from all over the world. Anne Frank had a cat. Other celebrated cats have belonged to leaders in the USA and UK and elsewhere.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g298309-d447294-Reviews-Cat_Museum-Kuching_Sarawak.html
Cat Gifts
Looking at cat stocking images, I found presents for female cat owners include black stockings with cat tops, faces and two little ears sticking up.
You can buy a cat ring holder. The Lakeland catalogue says the little cat will be 'perfectly' happy to mind your rings. It costs £7.95. Ref 42832. Page 118 of their catalogue
Tel 015394 88100
lakeland.co.uk
Red Xmas stockings for cats included the shape of a red fish with a ribbon hanging loop.
Cat Christmas stockings are sold by Waitrose supermarket.
Here's one I photographed in South Harrow, NW London, England.
Cat puppets and soft toys are sold in supermarkets, especially at Xmas time.
Catteries
UK boarding catteries (as opposed to breeding catteries) are inspected and licensed. and should display their license.
http://www.maxkitty-petsitting.co.uk/sem_cat_v2.html?gclid=CjwKEAiA7f-yBRDAgdv4jZ-78TwSJAA_WdMalq8zoEHzGixNYopmBPzPTCYojfJX-LbreHFoDL-wJxoCBazw_wcB
Cat Statues and souvenirs
The British Museum in London has statutes of cats from Egypt in the collection and in the shop and the online shop.
http://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/sculpture/gayer-anderson-cat/invt/cmcr90740
Museums in London and New York
British Museum, London, England
For pictures of British Museum cats including a mummified cat and a beautiful finger ring with a cat on top go to:
http://www.littlehouseofcats.com/cats-in-art/museum-cats/british-museum-cats/
Met Museum, New York, USA
To see a picture of the cat statue which was intended to contain a mummified cat go to the website of Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Details of entry times on the Museum home page.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/544118
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at Collection in Amsterdam
Are you going to Europe? Look for this cat theme Cat Cabinet in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
http://www.amsterdam.info/museums/cat-cabinet/
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author of Larry The Talking Labrador. See my books on Amazon.com and Lulu.com
