Museums

Yesterday we went to the Natural History and The Pitt Rivers museums. Both museums were different but very interesting and impressive.

In the National History museum the main exhibitions were about dinosaurs, insects and many sorts of animals. Human's evolution, fosils and minerals from all over the world.
In the Pitt Rivers each of us had one specific topic to investigate about.

Adrian and Pablo's theme was about the use of smoking and stimulants throughout time: The Mayans were the first culture to use tobacco. Drugs were mostly used for religious rituals, medicinal purposes and connecting to different dimentions.

Melissa's investigation was about magic, witchcraft and wizardry. It was very interesting because it showed the different beliefs from different cultures around the wolrd. Their ideologies had things in common although they lived far appart. There were many sorts of objects used for magical purposes like amulets for protection and talismans for good luck, and healing.

Miriam's topic was about ships and boats. Boats stareted in Mesopotamia as a way of transportation, they evolved into trading and commertial ships. There were  many kinds of vessels from cannoes, to rafts, to big war ships.

Posted by Paulina Ramirez