Friday, July 20 -
After planning to go several times and it never working out, I finally went to the British Museum! It was really cool and filled with so much stuff. I definitely suffered from
museum fatigue (which is a real thing). People who want to go into the museum business have to take a class all about it and learn how to design museums so people don't get museum fatigue, according to my friend who has a friend studying nursing who had to learn about it.
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| The British Museum! |
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| The Rosetta Stone! |
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| Close up of the Rosetta Stone |
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| Ancient Egyptian statue |
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| More (nose-less) ancient Egyptian statues |
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| A (headless) sea nymph statue |
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| Ancient Roman tomb |
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| Two faced vessel. Both Africans and women were minorities in the male dominated civilization |
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| The coins get so tiny |
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| Human skull with turquoise, from somewhere in ancient Mexico |
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| African headdresses |
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| A hat made out of spider webs |
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| Armor chair. It's a piece of art, not an artifact of historical importance |
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| A Moai! |
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| Cool geometric artwork... |
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| ...that's actually math! |
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| Animal sculptures from India |
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| Jade! |
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| Olympic medals! |
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| Fake pound coins! The sign said about one in every 35 pound coins are counterfeit |
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| Political statement artwork |
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| A mummy! A British child was standing next to me trying to get his mom's attention, and he kept saying, 'mummy, mummy, mummy.' Ha ha ha. |
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| Another mummy |
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| An actual preserved human body |
Afterwards, I went to Garfunkel's for dinner. It's like the Applebee's of London and it was delicious!
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| American-style Pancakes are on the dessert menu. They also sell sugary cereals like Lucky Charms in the candy aisle. |
On the way home, we went through Embankment park and found statues of Wenlock! Only one more week until the Olympics!
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