The Metropolitan Museum of Art – w w w . x e .s . c x

So after the Egyptian section, I wandered around until I reached a room filled with all sorts of armours.

This is the armour of Emperor Ferdinand I of Germany. It’s been around since the 1500s. The interesting bit of this armour is the part below.

They have an armour for his penis!

The Greek section. Boring stuff. I’m not cultured enough to appreciate it.

2 men playing Liubo, a popular ancient Chinese board game during the Han dynasty. The exact rules of the game are unknown, but it is believed that each player had six game pieces that were moved around the points of a square game board that had a distinctive, symmetrical pattern.

This guy looks like George Bush!

Kwoma ceiling.

Gold pendants from Colombia 1 – 7 century. Still shiny after so many years!

A thousand over years old shoe. I did a throughout check on it to see whether there are any trade marks on it. Apparently, trade marks are used since the Roman days for swords. Interesting!

When I first heard the name The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met for short), my first reaction was, “Why the F should I waste my time looking at paintings???”. However, there were rave reviews about this place hence I kept an open mind to see what’s there.

There’s an entrance fee of US20 for adults and US10 for students. While at the payment counter, the cashier asked me,

Cashier: Are you a student?
Me: No.
Cashier: You want to pay full price?
Me: Sure.
Cashier: Are you sure? It’s US20.
Me: Yeah, sure.

The “ticket” to go in.

I later found out that you can actually just pay US$1 as a token for entrance -_-

Cool looking cloakroom

The museum is HUGE. I was there since 9am until closing time. I couldn’t even finish looking at everything!

The museum is divided into many sections such as the Egyptians, Greek, Indian, Mesopotamia, US, European, Chinese, Japanese and South American sections. The “art” in this museum was more than paintings. There were thousand of artifacts created few decade to few thousand years ago.

My favourite section is the Egyptian section. There’s a small temple called the Temple of Dendur in the museum. The temple was built around 15BC and and part of it was moved to the museum.

You can see some 19th Century graffiti on the walls.

The original temple.

It’s amazing to see the works of people who lived hundred over years ago. The small amulets found in tombs are one of my favourites. If I’m a designer, I would copy of all these designs and reproduce them again!

Thousand of overs ago, Egyptians worship all sorts of Gods and Goddess. Now people have different religions. I wonder in few more thousand years, will people have other type of religions? Will they be worshiping Doraemon?