Belated update: Imperial War Museum

Last Wednesday we had our usual theatre class. We talked about Vernon God Little, which just about everyone enjoyed as much as I did. Our next show is Anna Nicole Smith: The Opera at the Royal Opera House. That one should be interesting.

After class Jordan, Liz, Elizabeth, Kevin, John, Jordan S., Dan and I all went to the Cittie of York for dinner. We had visited this pub before and it was just as good the second time around. It's an underground pub with delicious fish and chips and only locally brewed beers. After we finished eating we migrated to the Lamb, another pub slightly closer to home. The lamb looks like it came straight out of the Victorian era. I have been there before as well, but it was more crowded this time and more fun with our larger group. Their beer of the week was banana bread flavored. I was too curious to not try it, so I bought a half pint so we could all try some. It tasted exactly like banana bread, which was actually off putting. I think I'll stick to Guinness in the future.

On Thursday after our novel class we had a tour of the Imperial War Museum. We met with one of the IWM's curators for a talk on the museum's history before we set out to explore on our own. He was a fascinating man. He first visited the museum when he was 7 with his father and told his father during that visit that he wanted to work there. He has now been working there for over 35 years and knows the museum and all of the history contained in it like the back of his hand. I'm always impressed by people who have such exact, intricate and extensive knowledge of something like that. Even though I took some issue with some of the things he said, (for example that all American museums are self glorifying while British ones are about the pure truth- an incredible lie) I really enjoyed his talk. The museum itself was pretty cool. Liz and I explored the WWI and WWII areas before heading to the holocaust exhibit. the WWI and WWII areas were extremely bias. You would think that Britain had single handedly won both wars. However, the museum was still very cool to visit. The holocaust exhibit was incredibly well done. It was deeply moving and after we finished walking through it we were in no mood to see the rest of the museum and headed home to pack for our weekend trip to PARIS!!

"Largest Boys room in Briatin" - Curator at the IWM

Respecting the home country

one of the few mentions of US involvement

propaganda posters from WWII

King George VI's jacket

The Small section on the Northern Ireland conflict 

A piece of the Berlin wall

Update on Paris soon!