British Museum

I’m sitting in an internet cafe between the British Museum and Trafalgar Square. I’ve been strolling around this area for a bit, after having gone to the British Museum. The BM has too much stuff. I’m only moderately being facetious. It’s overwhelming to enter in there. It’s a daunting feeling realizing you could spend weeks there and not properly see all there is.

Of course I went directly to the European and Medieval exhibits. I have now seen the Sutton Hoo helm from 6 inches away. Hopefully, they can clean my drool from the glass case. It’s not like any of us have not seen it but it is a little magical to see it that closely and really appreciate the detail. I’m planning on coming back again and looking at it again, but it was awesome to see.

I have to come back as I did not even see the Rosetta Stone. I simply walked through the Egyptian, Roman, and Greek exhibits to get to the Medieval one to see the Sutton Hoo exhibit. Did I mention there’s a lot of stuff.

I did make a tactical error. I went to the bookstore. There were several things that I’d been wanting and some stuff I hadn’t been aware of. I’ve already put all that I bought (a bunch of books and some souvenir stuff) in the post to send back home. It’s going by boat, so who knows how long that will take :).

The one souvenir thing I think I’m going back for is the Rosetta Stone puzzle πŸ™‚

Three days into England. I’ve felt the dirt and grass where Anglo-Saxon England died and seen the exhibit of its greatest archaeological find. I’m not saying this to make any of you jealous, though many of you will be. I’m saying it because I still have to remind myself that this is really happening.

Thanks mom, dad, Irene, and Ed.

6 thoughts on “British Museum”

  1. le sigh…

    What are you doing wasting time in an internet cafe?!? πŸ˜‰

    Don’t forget to spend some time with the non-armor stuff, too…

    Wish I were there… πŸ™‚

    ‘Wynn

    1. Re: le sigh…

      Non-armor stuff? What’s that?

      Wish you were here too, you would have loved the brooches, jewelry, buckles, combs, and lots and lots of other stuff. I was actually thinking about how much fun it would have been to have walked through that section each going “Ooh shiny rock” πŸ™‚ It is much more fun to do a museum like this one with someone else to help notice stuff.

      PS: It wasn’t wasting time, it was spending 15 minutes off of my feet πŸ™‚

  2. Wish I was there…

    Having just gotten back from a trip to the big sites in Greece, I understand the awe. Staring at the Mask of Agamemnon, wandering into the Palace of the Grand Masters in Rhodes, running my fingers through the dirt at Thermopylae, I begin to get it.

    Makes you feel kinda small, doesn’t it?

    1. I think briefly on the 3rd of August. I don’t know as I’ll have a chance to meet, so we’ll just have to share some beverages at Pennsic.

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