The ticket office is circled in the distance... and yes, the queue was 3-4 people wide!
"Elementary, my dear Watson!"
Even there, the crowds took us by surprise! We knew it was Easter Saturday, and everyone was on holiday, but even so... the British Museum is huge, and it still managed to feel packed! The Egyptian and Greek galleries on the ground floor were the busiest. After a look at some Abissinian murals, we squeezed a peep at the rosetta stone between the camera-pointing throngs, explored one of the larger Egyptian rooms, and then found ourselves in a room with sarcophagi and mummys, but almost no breathable air! We escaped the pressing crowds via the first door that presented itself, and after briefly consulting the map decided to head upstairs to an exhibition of Japanese artifacts. This was finally quiet enough for us to be able to fully appreciate its contents, and we spent a happy hour wandering around statues of dragons, miniature good-luck gods, samurai armour, swords and Japanese paintings...
"No, Hugo, you can't take a sword home with you!"
As we were being ushered out of the Museum at closing time, we passed an Easter island statue in a strange room we couldn't quite work out the theme of: hanging above the Easter island statue, for instance, were flying machines... I'll report further on this room once I've gone back and looked at it properly.
Notice the people actually have space to move...
Before we left, we spotted a mini terracota army, made by schoolchildren who had visited the exhibition before Christmas:
Aren't they cute... errr, menacing, I mean, menacing!
2 comments:
I saw the terracota army... la la la
It is quite amazing how we actually didn't queue for Madame Tussaud's in February. It was supposed to be some sort of holiday too.
I saw the terracota army too, can't you see it in the photos? ;P
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