Coley's Just Saying...: British Museum

Monday, May 21, 2012

British Museum

When my good friend Lynn and I went to Egypt for a friend's wedding around this time last year, we did almost all the tourist sights except for the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, we obviously are just NOT museum people... but I remember our excuse was that we've seen a lot of the Ancient Egypt Collection at the British Museum in London which includes a mummy collection and the Rosetta Stone. Hahahaha. Talk about lame excuse.

So of course, I had to bring my daughter to the British Museum (my mom got to rest from both of us)... just so when we go to Egypt to visit Auntie Mennat, Sofia can also say she doesn't need to go to the Eygptian Museum because she saw it it London... Hahaha... Kidding!!!

I actually did a little homework and I choose the museums that we go to based on the Family or Kids Trails that they have available. Sofia really enjoys doing them because the trail comes in the form of an activity book that you can keep and it is tailored for her age (sometimes the 3-5 bracket is actually too easy), and it keeps her focused on a certain area of the museum where we actually need to go from display to display to do the activities. The British Museum has a Family Activity desk where they have several trails for different age brackets as well as activity backpacks that they lend out for free (with a small deposit) that you get back when you return the bag.

We found the relatives of Sofia's hat on our way to the museum.

Stopping to buy postcards so she has time to write and mail them.

After wandering around (we had a general idea where the British Museum is!), we finally saw it.

The fact that we were on Museum Street with the Museum Tavern was enough to give us an idea that we were getting close.

Only the museums near the British Museum has Egyptian souvenirs.

Before entering the British Museum.

There were food trucks outside and not much people because it was one of those cold days!

First Stop: The Family desk to get a Family Trail Booklet.
Fif chose to do numbers.

We got Dancing with Shiva and it took us to India.

Hi Buddha!

We finally found Shiva Nataraja.

Fif copying Shiva's hands.

Finding the Thungedaws from Burma.

Copying the Thungedaws.

Fif got to rest when we found the seated Buddha from Thailand.

Then we moved on to search for the Brass lion from Tibet.

Tongues out!

The last stop of this trail led us back to India in search of Dancing Ganesha.

Sofia needed mom to do a Shiva Nataraja impression because she has 4 arms!

The British Museum is nice and full of natural light.
We went back to the Family desk to pick up another Museum Trail.

This one took us to Africa to Chase rainbows with Mammy Wata.

Sofia was scared at first because the Mammy Wata had a big snake, but when we read the poem and it said she brings love and life to the world, Sofia was game to copy her hand signals.