I love museums. Be it art, history, science etc. Since I like museums so much, we visited a few. Too few to my liking. But the really bad news was, I think I lost a lot of pictures due to low battery and carelessness to name a few. I always mistook taking pictures on the GoPro camera when it was not taking any (no viewfinder and LCD screen). I really need to invest on that and learn to connect my Lenovo phone to the Macbook.
Victoria and Albert Museum
First museum we visited was the Victoria and Albert Museum. Around London, these pair of names cropped up many times. Queen Victoria, I think, was one of the greatest and longest reign too, except for King Bhumibol of Thailand and her great-great grand daughter, Queen Elizabeth the II (the current Queen). Although her marriage to Prince Albert was cut short due to his death (died at the age of 42), which she mourned for the rest of her life, it also meant the beginning of various projects dedicated to her dear Albert. Hence, everywhere you would see buildings and monuments with their name or at least one of the two in London.
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| Victoria and Albert Museum |
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| Ben and Fay. Note the stairs to the museum.. |
I was soon lost among the exhibition and only took too few photos. Busy enjoying them.
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| phew..taking a breather on a bench among the display |
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self picture at the rotunda in ceramic gallery.
Hoodie "Den Abah Kau" from Sarcasteek.com in M'sia |
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| a tile (yes, a huge tile) from Iran. Inscription in arabic, is common..of course, always read it in wirid after solah |
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| Leonardo da Vinci's note book |
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| a gauntlet, protective glove for fingers and wrist used by knights. It is padded with leather and cotton. It is not a glove as per se, but as a cover for the said part. So, you would still be able to wield a sword and in this case, the wooden cylinder on display |
As usual, someone would be bored or tired or hungry that we left in a hurry.
The British Museum
It was on a different day (otherwise some one, maybe Madam would be dead of boredom). Usually the first place we visited was the 'boringest' place to the whole lot of them. It was huge. From the beginning, I realised "woohoo..need to pick and choose..the rest would be bored the moment they entered"
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| minus me, Ben and maybe Afifa, the rest only came for the view...not the displays |
There was a special exhibition on Egyptian Mummies, and so me, Afifa, Ben and Fay went to see all seven of them. All from different dynasty, different status and age at the time of death (priest, priest's daughter, court musician, baby, a woman etc). It was interesting a totally interactive with all the CT scans images, x-rays and other graphic information regarding the mummies on display.
Next there were other on going displays on ancient Greek, Babylon, Viking, Egypt and the rest. Why I said the rest? As usual, someone was feeling hungry and bored. Aarrrrggghhh!
Rest? Need a rest? geddit?..oh ok..
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| The lobby |
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| Me and Afifa...we share the same interest..almost |
As usual, I somehow managed to get myself separated from the group. But, no worries. Bought a fluorescent colour cap which the children can spot me from a mile away!
But hats off to Madam. Her 'genuine' interest in history especially ancient Greek is a joy to watch.
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| Madam showing interest...since some of the sculpture were unclothed..(finish the rest of the sentence) bahana Spartacus |
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| An attempt to throw us off guard, a futile effort nevertheless (refer to previous picture) |
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| You don't see Madam here, right? |
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| A model of Parthenon and the mock relief on the wall of museum and the original colour of the cornice. Nice! |
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| One of the display (sorry, I was playing the catching up game..didn't have time to look at it carefully) |
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| all of these are reproduction of the originals |
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| the Rosetta stone, written in 3 languages (Hieroglyphs, not sure of the 2nd one and in Greek) which paved the way to unlock the first writing and language. |
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| from the Kingdom of Babylon |
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| view from above |
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| note: the cap |
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| from Ancient Egypt |
The Natural History Museum
Just across the Victoria and Albert Museum lies the Natural History Museum. Took a while for us to enter because of the long queue. But most of the exhibits were free, so no complaints there.
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| NH Museum |
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| a closed up of the said building, with some editing |
Ahah! The children totally ruled this one. Of course the animal kingdom were their favourite. Again, I only have a handful of pictures..sigh
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| the Mammals! |
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| the indefatigable nanny |
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| Ben and Fay, background is a Narwhal |
I think those 3 were the museums we visited. Next visit to London will be alone. Hmmmmm that would be nice! Backpacking alone and visiting museums (honest) day in, day out...Knowledge is power. At least the power to ridicule Madam and impress the children...hahahahahah!
Backpacking across Europe!!!
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