So on Saturday, me and Arne went to the British Museum. We didn't have any goal or any opinion of what we should see, so we just went going around looking on everything. I'll tell you, thats not a good idea. British Museum brags about having a 4 km big museum. I think, as a physicist, thats kind of a weird way to measure a display. The thing is, they are probably right, they can measure it like they want, because this place is huge. Of course it was interesting in some kind of way, but eventually we got kind of bored. It's just too much to see everything in one day, or even in one week. Back in the days, Britain had colonies everywhere. So they have stolen a lot of stuff from these places and put it in their one personal museum. As a Londoner you don't have to travel anywhere you can just go to British Museum to experience the World.
The picture to the left is of one of the statues from Eastern Islands. Kind of cool. Bee neat there is one picture from inside the Museum. This was just a small part of everything. So you get a understanding of how big it is. The two other pictures are of a sculpture looking like a tree. When we took a closer look we could see that it was made out of real weapons. To get rid of all the weapons lying around in some parts of Africa (after different wars), a company made an agreement with the village people. In exchange of bringing them weapons they'll give them tools, like f. exp a tractor. Then they'll get artist to use the weapons in their arts.
I love British Museum!! But it is kind of strange to walk around there looking at all these stolen goods... Like for example the Acropolis. To even think about moving such a thing outside of its country..!
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