Queens' and Family

One of the PAs, Chris took my family and me on a tour of Queens' college. It was really interesting to compare it to King's. It seemed a little more homey and there was enough student housing for all of Queens' students. I liked the feeling of it. It was Chris' home for the past four years.

An extremely complicated sun dial.

The coat of arms

The beautiful dining hall

The master's hallway

The chapel

Student housing

The chapel inside

Chris' room was in the left building on the bottom right floor.

Chris and me! I loved Chris. He's always been really nice and he's kind of precious.

Next, Mom Jason and I headed to the Fitzwilliam where we found a George Romney painting. We also had fun looking through some of the other stuff. Jason really wanted to see the Egyptian things.

George Romney "Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman"

Ford Madox Brown "Cordelia's Portion"

August Rodin "Nature"

Claude Monet "Poplars"

Courbin. I will never forget seeing "The Origin of the World" in Musee D'Orsay with my BYU study abroad group three years ago. Sooo funny.

Delecroix and Theodore

Some Poussin

After that, Jason, Mom and I went for a little punting excursion. It was really fun. There was a little party at Clare College that I punted by and was "dancing" to their live jazz music as I went by. There were some Asian gentlemen laughing and taking pictures and then I almost fell and they laughed harder. It was funny. As we went by King's, all my usual Cam friends were yelling compliments on my punting skills. It was fun. I'm finally getting decent at it in enough time to leave. 

So cute

Jason's turn. It's harder than it looks!

Saint John's bridge with goats

We also had to mail one of my suitcases home. We took forever rolling it to the post office where they informed us that we had to wrap it up. We bought the stuff and wrapped it up in the post office and the whole thing was ridiculous. Oh well. One less bag to drag around!

The one museum that I wanted to go to before leaving Cambridge was he Archaeological museum. It was fun comparing it to the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford. It was set up very different and I'm not sure which one I like better!

I really liked the local archaeological artifacts. That was super cool!

With a map where these objects were found

This is interesting. I know in the States there is a lot of ethics worries about showing dead bodies but I feel like I see them all the time in European museums

The mouse and shrew bones found in the tomb. The mouse gnawed on this dude a little before corking off himself.

Storage in museums

These artifacts were layered chronologically. The stuff in the back was prehistory, in the middle was Roman, and in the front was medieval. I liked the set up of that display.

There was a temporary display of Tongan artifacts. I thought this was a good way to go through what was in the collections and put them on display once in a while rather than letting them rot in storage forever.

Artifacts that are similar to ones I photographed in the Museum of Peoples and Cultures

And then we went upstairs to the permanent collections where they had artifacts from all over the world. This reminded me a little more of Pitt Rivers only less chaotic and set up by location rather than by type of object like in the Pitt Rivers.

Sami stuff for Josh who I think might be part Sami (he's a really dark Finn, so maybe?)

An Anthropological study. There were about 100 of these made to illustrate the ethnic diversity of people in India.

NorthWest stuff

For Josh who's from the NorthWest

Baskets like the ones I worked on in the Museum of People's and Cultures

A little bit of home

I liked the photographs by the objects that show how the objects would have been used in every day life. It was a good visual.

Permanent storage on display. Interesting concept.

Next we went to the Folk Museum of Cambridge. It was just this really old inn in Cambridge that was filled with folk objects found in various places. I liked it. It was just cute and quirky.