Thursday, January 29, 2009

My Museum Visit=]



For my museum visit i chose to go to the Cantor Museum. When i first arrived i wasn't expecting anything to exciting. I have been to a few museums before and some of them had endless amounts of exhibits. The museums would take days to cover all the exhibits. When i got to the Cantor Museum i was greeted by a giant horse which was made out of wood (so it seemed). It was really made of bronze, which i thought was very interesting. One of my favorite pieced of art that i came across were snuff bottle from China from the Qing Dynasty in the 19th and early 20th century. I liked them because they were elaborately decorated with beautiful intricate designs. They were also commonly used for medicine, mainly for snuff though. One of my other favorites was a canoe made out of a single Redwood tree by the indians. I thought this was very interesting and amazing how people could carve a boat out of a tree so giant! The indians were very hardworking! I particularly like this museum becuase of how small and uncrowded it was. Don't get me wrong I could have stayed there all day long staring at all the wonderfull artifacts. I like that it was small because i was able to cover the whole museum in a reasonable amount of time. I was able to see everything i wanted to see without walking for hours on end. Although i really like this museum and enjoyed my time there, there was once thing i particularly DID NOT like. It was the man on the right. I was entering the Andy Warhol exhibit when i was greeted by this man. At the time i thought it was a man and i was very startled by him. I spent a good five minutes trying to decide if he was real or not, i thought he was going to jump at me like in a horror movie. I finally discovered the sign saying he was made of wax=]. I was still very scared to go near him though he looked very real. Besides the wax man, i had a wonderful time at the Decantor Museum, i truly enjoyed myself and got to indulge myself in rare and beautiful artifacts. I highly reccomend this museum.

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