Museum Trip – Academic

On Friday October 13th my History 1001 professor arranged a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. If we went we would get five points extra credit so a handful of us took the time out of our schedules to go. I really wanted those extra credit points and I had never been to the museum so I requested to leave early from work. I work at Baruch’s Star Career Development Center, so my advisor allowed me to leave early as long as I make up my work study hours a different day. When I got to the museum Professor Boozer was still touring with a different group of students so we waited a while for her and the rest of our class to arrive. Once everyone had arrived we went into the Egypt exhibit as Professor Boozer gave us essential information about specific statues and artifacts. We saw several statues of Hatshepsut, an offering bearer, an elaborate wig, WILLIAM the hippo (and his twin), etc. We were all taking pictures of the artifacts and statues we found interesting to write out museum paper on. However, we later realized we were not allowed to write a paper on Egypt if we were on this trip. So, after the trip ended a small group of us stayed at the museum to go to different exhibits we could write our paper on. We went to the Mesopotamia and China exhibit. We went to the Mesopotamia exhibit because we actually learned about it already from class. We went to the China exhibit next because it was easy to find. We wandered around for a while and saw a lot of beautiful artifacts. One striking one was of this deer that was made out of spherical glasses at the China exhibit. My first time at the Met was an overall good experience.