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Sep. 18th, 2022 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowhiveSo yesterday ended up being a longish day (though not as long as Birmingham trips used to be), I’ve made pic posts from the day over on insta here I might do a separate pic post here we’ll see).
But anyway!
The night before I’d ended up sleeping downstairs. I’d considered doing it cause of the early start but in the end the choice wasn’t mine. While I was watching Name Your Price (Unff Karl and Quackity being so hot), Naryu came up, laid over my legs and promptly decided she wouldn’t move. So yeah I ended up downstairs.
The trip to Birmingham went ok though, of course, the ticket machine was still broken so we had to get the tickets at Birmingham. We got there pretty early so we were able to wander around town before going to the museum collections thing.
First for me was Game. I went just to get the Pokémon codes they’re giving out for free but I got some of the mega construx sets on sale (ponyta and sirfetch’d, the former who I’d wanted since I saw it cause it’s a fav). On the way out I spotted something that I was gonna be getting for my birthday and it had 20%… so mum decided to get it and so we ended up carrying it around all day. Oop.
We went to Lego and I got the cute little Halloween set (though when I tried to build it when we got home it was dark and it seems I lost a few pieces which I still need to find). Then we went in smiths, I got the new Who special (which I’m not sure is as good as I was expecting). And then Forbidden planet where i got a few cheap things.
Near Forbidden Planet was the free bus to the museum collection. It was a nice bus, one of the old ones, but I think it wasn’t well publicised. I mean I only saw it on the twitter and the pick up point itself was so out of the way.
The collection itself is in a place that seems a bit… middle of nowhere. I’m not surprised, but the bus passed the train station and it looked like there was next to nothing there. The collection itself was, well it was like a warehouse (which I expected) and things were in rows on shelves. The odd thing was there was no real order to most of it. There’d be a dentist chair, then model ships, an ancient (Egyptian seeming) tablet, a skeleton of a zebu, pumps… it seemed odd. You’d think there’d be an order but there didn’t seem to be.
The collection did tours of some of the areas… but there’d been no info online so it was only when we got there. Annoyingly we missed the time for the one that went into the sealed rooms and there wasn’t one for two hours (boo!) but we did get to go to the natural sciences area. That was a room upstairs that was slightly more organised, in that it had all the animal stuff in one place (though there was no real order). The tour wasn’t much of a tour as we were left to our own devices but the people would answer questions and share some info which was nice.
We took the bus back and then we decided to go towards the bull. We went through the garden that was by the museum on the way. I’m not sure why it was there but it was very pretty, very magical.it’s a shame it’s only temporary.
The bull is so impressive and I’m glad we were able to see it. I wonder where it’s gonna go, cause it’s took big to easily fit in the museum. I mean… just look at the pics.
Then we were both tired and hungry so we went back to the main part of town. I’d hoped to go through the garden on the way, but alas, there was people nearby being anti vac which put me off.
After eating we realised we were too tired to do too much (I’d hoped to go to the museum but alas it was too far). So we just got some skull glasses and then we ended up coming back home.
The night was pretty lazy cause I was tired. Today has been a bit of a pain, cause my pad decided earlier to be so bitchy. It seems to have settled now but ugh, I’m so sick of it.
I did build stuff and went on Fortnite for the new season, but there seems to be issues with the switch version crashing (I was worried it was just me) alas.
But anyway!
The night before I’d ended up sleeping downstairs. I’d considered doing it cause of the early start but in the end the choice wasn’t mine. While I was watching Name Your Price (Unff Karl and Quackity being so hot), Naryu came up, laid over my legs and promptly decided she wouldn’t move. So yeah I ended up downstairs.
The trip to Birmingham went ok though, of course, the ticket machine was still broken so we had to get the tickets at Birmingham. We got there pretty early so we were able to wander around town before going to the museum collections thing.
First for me was Game. I went just to get the Pokémon codes they’re giving out for free but I got some of the mega construx sets on sale (ponyta and sirfetch’d, the former who I’d wanted since I saw it cause it’s a fav). On the way out I spotted something that I was gonna be getting for my birthday and it had 20%… so mum decided to get it and so we ended up carrying it around all day. Oop.
We went to Lego and I got the cute little Halloween set (though when I tried to build it when we got home it was dark and it seems I lost a few pieces which I still need to find). Then we went in smiths, I got the new Who special (which I’m not sure is as good as I was expecting). And then Forbidden planet where i got a few cheap things.
Near Forbidden Planet was the free bus to the museum collection. It was a nice bus, one of the old ones, but I think it wasn’t well publicised. I mean I only saw it on the twitter and the pick up point itself was so out of the way.
The collection itself is in a place that seems a bit… middle of nowhere. I’m not surprised, but the bus passed the train station and it looked like there was next to nothing there. The collection itself was, well it was like a warehouse (which I expected) and things were in rows on shelves. The odd thing was there was no real order to most of it. There’d be a dentist chair, then model ships, an ancient (Egyptian seeming) tablet, a skeleton of a zebu, pumps… it seemed odd. You’d think there’d be an order but there didn’t seem to be.
The collection did tours of some of the areas… but there’d been no info online so it was only when we got there. Annoyingly we missed the time for the one that went into the sealed rooms and there wasn’t one for two hours (boo!) but we did get to go to the natural sciences area. That was a room upstairs that was slightly more organised, in that it had all the animal stuff in one place (though there was no real order). The tour wasn’t much of a tour as we were left to our own devices but the people would answer questions and share some info which was nice.
We took the bus back and then we decided to go towards the bull. We went through the garden that was by the museum on the way. I’m not sure why it was there but it was very pretty, very magical.it’s a shame it’s only temporary.
The bull is so impressive and I’m glad we were able to see it. I wonder where it’s gonna go, cause it’s took big to easily fit in the museum. I mean… just look at the pics.
Then we were both tired and hungry so we went back to the main part of town. I’d hoped to go through the garden on the way, but alas, there was people nearby being anti vac which put me off.
After eating we realised we were too tired to do too much (I’d hoped to go to the museum but alas it was too far). So we just got some skull glasses and then we ended up coming back home.
The night was pretty lazy cause I was tired. Today has been a bit of a pain, cause my pad decided earlier to be so bitchy. It seems to have settled now but ugh, I’m so sick of it.
I did build stuff and went on Fortnite for the new season, but there seems to be issues with the switch version crashing (I was worried it was just me) alas.
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Date: 2022-09-19 08:25 am (UTC)As much as the knowledge-hungry part of me loves museum collections laid out in logical order with lots of text-heavy plaques to teach me about what I'm looking at, there's a certain charm to the haphazard arrangement. Modern museums evolved from cabinets of curiosities, which were essentially just rooms full of cool stuff and weren't traditionally arranged in any particular fashion or labelled with facts or anything - set up for people to look and marvel at, for sure, but not quite as structured as museums today. Aesthetically they're so cool! But yeah, definitely not the most useful form of exhibition, lol.
I saw the pictures on Instagram - the gardens and the bull looked so cool!
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Date: 2022-09-19 10:47 am (UTC)The museum collection isn’t usually opened to the public, it’s more where exhibits not on display are stored. So my mind was like, how do they find anything when there seems to be no order to it? There were some things that had labels next to them, but some didn’t and I was like… what are these things?
It’s funny you mentioned cabinets of curiosities because that’s what most of the natural history section was. There were cabinets of birds in displays and the guide said they were all from one person who had collected them (there had to be at least 50 of them).
Yeah it really was! The garden was so pretty k wish I’d been able to spend more time there
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Date: 2022-09-19 12:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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