Last week, I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During my time, I explored the Ancient Egypt exhibit. It was one of my assignments to visit historical museum for my history course. The Ancient Egypt exhibit was huge. I took me almost 3 hours to finish the exhibit. I saw a pottery model of their lifestyle where it had houses, slaughter house for domestic animals and more. It was interesting to see that they had various boat styles for various events. For example, ancient Egyptians had specific style of boat for carrying deceased person and specific boat for pregnant woman. Most of all, the most important part of the exhibit was the mummies and coffins. They had a lot of coffins ranging from old ones to the recently excavated ones. Each coffin had different writings and drawings on it. Some of them were large in size and some of them were small as 5 feet in height. The rooms that they had coffins were low light that it was scary to look at the coffins. In addition, the museum had a large room where they created the environment of ancient Egypt. What I mean by that is they had small houses where you can enter and inside will be Egyptians writing on the walls. Moreover, museum also had Ancient Egyptians’ jewelries weapons and potteries they used during their daily lives.
Overall, I liked my visit to the museum because I get see the actual items of the ancient Egypt. It is incredible to see their artistic skills in writings and carvings on the coffins to create the image of pharaohs. I believe the museum visit was useful and informative since it contributed to my learning and it brought visualization since my textbook contains black and white colored images. I recommend this museum for those who are taking the prehistory course.