Assignment 2.

Museum of London


After collecting a group of girls and deciding to go to the Museum of London we left in hopes to be wowed by our destination. Being a lover of museums, I adored the Museum of London. I never expected it to be as hands on and interactive as it had been. After arriving with a group of other members I found that I was one of the slow museum goers in comparison to all the other girls. It took me three hours to get through the whole thing while it only took the others girls two. I suppose I feel the need to read most of the plaques instead of just looking at the pieces. From the beginning I was amazed at the extravagance of how evolved the weapons were in the earliest of years as well as how many spearheads and points were found. The skulls were so well preserved that it was shocking that everyone wasn’t amazed by the almost full mouth of teeth that was still intact. As the museum made its way down the years and began to introduce the fashion of the times, my girlish side showed its head and I could not help but get excited to see how jewelry evolved as well as the clothing choices through out the times. At the beginning I was very shocked at how many children were there but as I went on to see the wonderful hands on stations that the museum had for children I was very impressed. Besides one crying baby, every child I saw was seriously learning and the parents were helping them read what was being shown and talking to them about what they were looking at. I was amazed at how well behaved these children were. There was no screaming, no tantrums and not a single pouting child about how much their feet hurt or how hungry they were. In the states this would have never been the case. It made me take a double look at the parenting styles in Britain. This actually made me enjoy that the children were there and enhanced my visit so much more. The interactive technology of this museum was mind blowing. There were many stations that were being projected from the ceiling and you actually could touch the map or picture or whatever it might be and it would give you more information or ask you questions. I had never seen this before and it was mind blowing. I must admit that I am a button pusher so this was a wonderful experience. My favorite part was the garden walk. It was only a room but there were mannequins standing around in the garden “socializing” with the clothing styles of the time. On one wall was a constant film of servants setting up tables in the garden for dinner at a later time. It was just gorgeous. The only falter of the visit was that the seemed to jump from the 1700’s to the 1900’s very quickly and there was nothing said about the colonies and only one written statement about the world wars. However, all in all it was wonderful and I am glad I went. It jump started my desire to visit even more museums and left me only a taste for my hunger of history.