The first place we visited as a college after departing from the coach was the Ashmolean Museum, which was located just across the street from where we were parked. So after we were given out many tasks, and a map to prevent us from getting lost, we were left to look around the museum by ourselves, considering we were all over 18 and could look after ourselves.
I went around by myself, which I found quite beneficial, because I could then look at the items on display that were most interesting and relevant to me. At first, even though I wasn't initially looking forward to the trip, being on the coach allowed me to rest a bit from my other outstanding projects, and found myself feeling quite fresh and excitable visiting a new place, even though the weather was terrible throughout the whole day.
So anyway, I felt that the Ashmolean museum was a brilliant museum, it was very informative about each artefact and had a very wide variety of artefacts on display spanning 5 floors! Most of the artefacts were historic, but there were a few modern items on display, and I felt that the inside of the museum itself had a very modern feel to it. I think my favourite things on display there were the musical instruments, as well as all the human sculptures and the Ancient Greek display, which reminded me a lot of the Disney Classic Hercules. Even though this area would be quite easy to miss, I was also particularly impressed by the artwork printed on the Japanese Scrolls at the museum, and made me feel like people all over the world should paint or print their artwork on scrolls, as I felt that was a very good and inventive medium to use.
I felt I could have stayed there for longer, but because I was in an unfamiliar place, and didn't want to separate from the main group, I kept to the schedule, and moved on with the other lecturers to the other museums.
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