Taking Stock
14th May 2013

Today we went to Oxford on the coach, the first years and other classes joined us on the visit. The first place we went to was the Ashmolean museum, I found the museum very intresting and reminded me of the British museum in London. There was a very great deal to see so I began exploring straight away.

 

 

The first items I saw were from acient Egypt, they had quite a stock of Egyption items. There was a lot of statues and figures and other items, Mummys being the most intresting. After that we went on to see objects from acient Greece, I do like Greek history so I found this part of the musuem taking up alot of my time.

 

The description to this statue was 'Zeus or an elderly athlete', I'm going with Zeus. I did find this statue intresting and I did wonder what he would have been holding, obiviously it must have been a javerlin.

The next item that took my immediate intrest was this etching of Sir Roger Trumpington, the reason being I am creating a knight for my FMP so this etching is perfect research. Another object I saw was a huge painting on the wall of a massive Medieval battle, I didn't get the Artist's name but the painting was very similar to a painter I am aware of called Albrecht Altdorfer.

I couldn't fit the whole picture in but this is just a small part of it, but as I said very similar to Altdorfer's Battle Of Issues.

After the Ashmolean museum we went to Pitts River which was a great place. There was a lot of weired and wonderful stuff packed in there, the one room was just full of items like african masks and totem poles. 

The visit to Oxford was a good day out and I would like to go back and spend more time in the museums especially the Ashmolean as I didn't feel like I spent enough time in there.