The disused British Museum station is reported to be haunted by an Egyptian princess upset at being on display nearby.

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When Mrs Hancox contacted the police to check that her relative was included on the memorial, she was put in touch with the force's museum at Sparkhill police station, where she was able to see the original records of the incident.

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Chambers hopes to turn the lower levels of the station into a museum and exhibition space, and build a restaurant and rooftop bar higher up.

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Where, except New York, would a curator put a metro station in a museum of modern art, and what restaurant could be more self-consciously Parisian than Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles in Manhattan?

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And the Curzon Street railway station buildings could house a museum of photography.

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Those with an eye for culture are spoilt for choice as the city boasts a number of excellent museums - Macronie House Museum, Voortrekker Museum and the Natal Museum are particularly recommended- as well as the ornate railway station.

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The anniversary year was being launched on Saturday night at the museum, which occupies Victorian arches in Trafalgar Street, underneath Brighton railway station.

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Chambers recently invited me below ground at the Brompton Road Tube station in West London, which he intends to turn into a restaurant and museum in time for the 2012 Olympics.

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