what's your favourite museum experience?! *asks in a demanding, urgent way*
ohhh my god lib ohhh my god youāre asking a hell of a question
okay so itās no secret i am here for all history, ancient history mostly but lbr iāll take any history ever itās all great who need science and art museums when i can go look at ancient stuffs, stuffs made by people who are dead okay itās the best thing ever
so like, being v english and v into history my favourite museum ever is the british museum which i wish we could have gone and seen because like i know youād have loved it next time you come to london weāre going there.Ā
anyway iāve been there twice in my life so far and both times with large groups of friends. and the first time was with my classics class and oh my god let me tell you, unleash twelve 15 y/o classical history nerds into that museum and what happens is magical.Ā
obviously we started in the greek section because our teachers basically chivied us there and looked around and then went lolbye nerds and sat in the little cafe in the centre room. basically everything is very large and super pretty and iām pretty sure if i went in there alone iād spend like eight hours looking at literally everything in wonder like your typical bad pretentious YA protag (ft leather satchel and notebook filled with poignant poetry and all) and we basically spent the entire time making either bad history jokes or correcting each other on our badly learned facts it was beautiful and we went for chinese after so no one can complain
and this is irrelevant to the museum bit but like we were walking to china town in london after and weād entered china town except i can be a bit ditzy and in my own little world and obviously i was contemplating the world of ancient history or w/e and i went to my friend abbey āwow thereās a lot of chinese shops hereā and she was like āwell done hannah no shit sherlockā (this was back in the days that was a popular phrase obviously)
anyway let me tell you the one thing i absolutely remember adoring beyond belief is the exhibit that we found hardest to get to because for some reason we took like three wrong turns in this museum (which is weird because the museum runs on a pretty basic grid despite being in this old grandiose building in the middle of london a.k.a the most ramshackle batshit confusing place ever) anyway we finally found the exhibit on ancient chinese artefacts, i think there was a japanese exibit too?? iād have to check but anyway the paintings and pottery and art are still some of the most beautiful things iāve ever seen and I really want to go back and see them because i love them lots
the museum is actually pretty good for all sorts of cultures you know, beyond your ancient stuff that i get overexcited over. iām pretty sure they have stuff on native america, european history (eastern too) and some of african history (mostly ancient egypt because what other parts of african history do we actually recognise in the western world?)
okay i rambled on a lot but i really love this museum and i want to show it to everyone itās really terrible of me and i want to go again some time.
also also thereās a really cool natural history museum and gallery in bristol that iāve been to a few times and it has the most amazing paintings and is such a comforting quiet place to be when iām there so thereās that too. and also also also finally, i also really love the national gallery in london everything in there is so beautiful and iām really terrible and know nothing about art so itās actually quite a good place to make bad tasteless jokes but you know thatās just me iām terribe
anyway there iām done i could say more but iām boring everyone probably thanks for the ask lib <33Ā














