A Day at the Museum
With the parents in town, we decided to take in some local culture that was not a pub or a football stadium.
After exploring the British Museum for a few hours, I had three key observations:
1. All National museums in the UK are free. Naturally this draws enormous crowds. But it promotes learning. That’s a good thing.
2. At least half of the material in the museum is under dispute with country of origin. The British Museum displays enormous collections of Egyptian tomb art as well as acres of sculpture from Greece. Natually each side tells a different story about how the art was acquired.
3. The mohels of the ancient world were not nearly as skilled as the sculptors. For those that do not know, a “mohel” is the person that performs circumcisions. Why does this matter? Because a disproportionate number of the statues were missing their “male part”.
For the sake of avoiding internet censorship, we skipped the pictures for this observation.
