For the first time in maybe five years, I visited a museum. This museum trip was a part of my history class. The trip was on a Friday morning and about half the class present to attend the trip. Since we were studying about the Egyptians and Mesopotamians at the time, we visited the exhibits for each. We went the MET for the exhibits. We started with the Egyptian exhibit, which sadly took the entire trip or hour to go through. The museum provided us with a much better representation of the effect the people have on us today. They have left many traces and clues to how they have lived in the past and their entire or most of their history. While in this part of the museum, we saw many clay figurines show casing Egyptian life at the time. We also saw many clay tablets with hieroglyphs inscribed into them. The papyrus with hieroglyphs have disintegrated a long time ago and didn’t preserve as well as the clay tablets. We also saw the mascot for the MET, a little blue hippo figurine named William. There were also showcases filled with ornaments and jewelry the people wore back in the day. However, I found the statues of a pharaoh the most interesting. There were many statues of the same pharaoh throughout the same room. There were also large statues of the ancient Egyptian gods erected outside the room as well. After this trip, we were instructed to find an object the teacher didn’t talk about and write an essay on it. After walking around the museum, I laid my eyes on a giant statue outside. Once I gotten close to this statue, I realized it was Cleopatra’s needle. I was so amazed on how they were able to move such an object here, I decided to do my essay on this. Overall, this trip was very exciting.
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