British Museum
Aaron
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Saturday, October 2, 2010
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British Museum is the best museum I had visited while I am in UK, having the most comprehensive display of Egyptian stuffs around. Most of the stuff on display was not being cased, but yet tourist follow the instruction not to touch it. Cool.
The building consisted of 6 levels, divided into 3 floors. With almost 100 rooms of exhibits, one will need whole day to visit the whole of the god damn museum.
100 rooms, that's hell of a maze. To prevent myself from getting lost, I got myself a multimedia guide with built-in commentary. There's also a map and a list of tours to select.
Being a fan of Egyptian stuff, I got myself going on with the tour. British Museum is famous for its Egyptian stuff. Tons of display and nice story in the exhibits spanning 2 levels. As usual, there's shabtis, mummies, statues and part of ancient ruins.
After about an hour listening the multimedia guide browsing through the exhibits, I finally completed the tour about those dead bodies and weirdly shaped rocks. Next on the guided tour is the Greece's Parthenon ruins. A small room that I spent one hour in, everything explained so detail.
After that, the audio guide leads me to the rooms housing Roman and Greek exhibits. Statues, sarcophagi, gold. weapons and much more awaits me . It started to get crowded too.
There is also a special themed exhibition about Africa, the colonisation and their currency. Quite nice. There is also rooms that display the history of monies and credits. There's also a mention of Penang's temple about burning hell notes. =.=
Then, the multimedia guide sent me back to the ground floor (every tour starts from the multimedia guide desk) and into a territory I am not familiar with, but the displays are quite interesting.
I was not interested in the guided tours after the three main tour and just walked by those room briefly. The time passed very fast and without noticing, I was there for more than 6 hours.
This is a damn good vault of knowledge, highly recommended. ^^ Oh ya, it's free too. (Rental of multimedia guide is GBP5, 10% discount for students.)
The building consisted of 6 levels, divided into 3 floors. With almost 100 rooms of exhibits, one will need whole day to visit the whole of the god damn museum.
100 rooms, that's hell of a maze. To prevent myself from getting lost, I got myself a multimedia guide with built-in commentary. There's also a map and a list of tours to select.
Being a fan of Egyptian stuff, I got myself going on with the tour. British Museum is famous for its Egyptian stuff. Tons of display and nice story in the exhibits spanning 2 levels. As usual, there's shabtis, mummies, statues and part of ancient ruins.
After about an hour listening the multimedia guide browsing through the exhibits, I finally completed the tour about those dead bodies and weirdly shaped rocks. Next on the guided tour is the Greece's Parthenon ruins. A small room that I spent one hour in, everything explained so detail.
After that, the audio guide leads me to the rooms housing Roman and Greek exhibits. Statues, sarcophagi, gold. weapons and much more awaits me . It started to get crowded too.
There is also a special themed exhibition about Africa, the colonisation and their currency. Quite nice. There is also rooms that display the history of monies and credits. There's also a mention of Penang's temple about burning hell notes. =.=
Then, the multimedia guide sent me back to the ground floor (every tour starts from the multimedia guide desk) and into a territory I am not familiar with, but the displays are quite interesting.
I was not interested in the guided tours after the three main tour and just walked by those room briefly. The time passed very fast and without noticing, I was there for more than 6 hours.
This is a damn good vault of knowledge, highly recommended. ^^ Oh ya, it's free too. (Rental of multimedia guide is GBP5, 10% discount for students.)
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