The British Museum

I’ve been here 3 hours now. There’s a museum map. It says if you’re going to just do an hour then these are things you must make a point of seeing.  So the treasure hunt began. I never found them all. It’s easy to get distracted in a museum.  The Celtic exhibits caught me. Then the Viking exhibits. The Islam exhibit is half a floor. I was interested in the tourquoise pottery. I don’t know what’s going to capture my attention in a museum. 

I liked the Thorn religuary with the thorn from the crown of Christ. That lead to me looking at more items from pilgrimages then it was swords and shields of Romans.  I think the police here with the radios and stab proof vests are weighted down. Then the modern soldier has all that gear. The Romans and Egyptians and Greeks had shields and heavy swords.  History wasn’t made by intellectuals and academics. Thankfully museums were.

The lay out is excellent by different period and collection. 

I don’t know where the time went. When I lived here 50 years ago I used to take my lunch breaks walking about the exhibits.  There’s so much of interest I really don’t know where the time went.  Indeed I started today in a room of clocks.  Amazing world.  

Now I’m having a egg sandwich and Latte waiting to do the Stonehenge tour. I bought some Stonehenge swag in the gift shop and it would be fraud not to take the tour.  I think after that it will be time to walk home. We have a musical to attend this night. A nap  would go well before that.

Today is St. Patrick’s Day

Caesar and I