Saturday was the last open day of the Cabinet of Curiosities before the renovations of the building start. As ever, there were new things to see, like the writing boards from Mali which Françoise and Pierre picked up at the Book Fair at Hay Castle earlier this year.
On Sunday, I was chatting to two chaps who were visitors to Hay as they were buying some books from the Cinema Bookshop. They had tried to find the Cabinet of Curiosities, and got lost, partly because they had forgotten the name. "I kept thinking it was the House of Trembling Madness, but I knew that wasn't right," he said. "That's a pub in York!"
Then they asked what sort of a museum it was anyway - antiques? fine arts?
I explained about the focus on botany and the health of the planet, as well as the collaborations with local young artists (I'm sure there were some new mannequins around the house this time, for instance, or at least, ones that I haven't noticed before).
So they said they'd be very interested to come back to Hay when it re-opens.
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