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Whilst I agree with you as an adult, I can't help but imagine that as a child things hit differently. Particularly as a child who doesn't have such a passionat
by bcraven 2y ago
Whilst I agree with you as an adult, I can't help but imagine that as a child things hit differently.
Particularly as a child who doesn't have such a passionate parent as yourself to explain all the equipment.
As such it's hard for people like us to have an objective opinion because it's always framed through our experiences of loving science: 'It worked for us, why change it?'
- ggm 2y agoI did have parents passionate about this stuff, but they also sent me off exploring on my own. So experientially this was a post in memory of past times unstructured self guided exploration. The huge risk of course is misunderstanding. Every autodidact gets hit by that. So the didactic panels are necessary, the pathways, but the sheer amount of tidying up and simplifying is (badly) stunning: they took shitloads of materials off display, to contextualise what's left better (in their eyes) Contrast with the BM. Last visit: "do you want to hold a real Celtic bronze axehead" from an archeologist on the floor. (Detectorists probably helped motivate them to socialise the stacks of finds which arent holotypes) They're bloody heavy, amazing things. Beautifully crafted Lovely chap, spoke about the casting techniques, preserving the binding in surrounding soil when removing, all kinds of stuff. I think the BM and Sir John Soanes house have kept the spirit alive, the Science Museum hasn't.