Museum Fun Talk

 　　Glasgow Riverside Transport Museum

　　Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland. The Riverside Transport Museum located in the city is called "Glasgow Guggenheim Museum". The pavilion is a modern building with a strange shape made of metal frame and glass. The designer is Zaha Hadidi, the designer of the London Olympic Aquatics Centre.

　　The museum was built at the confluence of the Clyde and Kelvin rivers that flow through Glasgow, so nearly 70% of Glasgowans have left their footprints here since it opened in June 2011. Exhibits here include steam engines, motorcycles, Glasgow trolleybuses and a variety of wheeled, winged and sailed vehicles. In the yard outside the pavilion there is also a tall ship of the last batch produced. It has become a paradise for those who love transportation, and for those who are not interested in it, the street scene here will make them worthwhile: 19th century Glasgow-style streets, traditional shops all over the streets, old-fashioned Trams run through the streets, and even the subway station remains the same. Wandering in the meantime, as if time is reversed, tourists who come here can have their own place and enjoy their own enjoyment.

　　Hertfordshire Natural History Museum

　　There is a natural history museum in Hertfordshire, southeast England, where the exhibits are mainly from personal collections. The owner of the collection, Baron Walter, has been collecting taxidermy since he was 5 years old. People in the Victorian era loved collecting. As a member of the Rothschild family, Baron Walter had sufficient funds and channels to collect 4,000 top-grade taxidermy. Of course, it took him 40 years.

　　The specimens are housed in Baron Walter's house in Traling, Hertfordshire, which is now the Hertfordshire Natural History Museum. There are all kinds of taxidermy collected here, some of which you can imagine, and quite a few are beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and the stories behind them are also quite colorful. A polar bear taxidermy has become the prototype of the characters in the cartoon story "Snowman", and there is a named George's mandrill (African baboon) specimen, it was the star of London Zoo during his lifetime. The specimens here range from elephant seals weighing 4 tons to fleas that are hard to find with the naked eye. There are more than 80 varieties of domestic dogs alone.

　　Hertford Time Machine Museum

　　Time machines are the magical machines in modern science fiction, but some people are keen to imitate them as souvenirs, and some people are obsessed with collecting these bizarre objects and keeping them in a 400-year-old ancient building . This combination of old and new may seem incongruous, but it does nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of sci-fi fans who share a common passion, as it is home to 30 years of hard work by an obsessive collector. The collector is Andy? Glazard, claiming to be a lover of horns.

　　Part of the collection is a handcrafted replica of characters from the classic science fiction novels Thunderbird and The Red Dwarf, while the rest are mostly imitations of characters from the British children's TV series Doctor Who. Three of the computer robot models (Cyberman) were made in different eras. The most creepy thing in the collection is the metal monster named Dalek. He is also a character in "Doctor Unknown". He often makes strange noises in the play. When he wants to kill, he will shout "Destroy, destroy". , the snake-like passages in the pavilion and the lighting effects set up in the exhibition area to create an atmosphere will make visitors feel chills down their spines and creepy, as if they have entered the world of "Doctor Unknown".

　　

　　Bath Fashion Museum The

　　Bath Fashion Museum is located in Bath, which is known as the City of Springs in Somerset, England. The exhibits here not only span a wide range of ages, but also have a variety of types, including many famous works, which can be described as dazzling and beautiful.

　　A collection sewn in 1660 has become the treasure of the town hall here. Westwood's iconic men's and women's fashion pieces are the guests here. Westwood is a famous British fashion designer in the 1970s. Her design style is unique and unconventional. She is one of the main representatives of punk style, and her design is very popular among young people. In addition, costumes worn in court in the 18th century occupy a section of the museum.

　　The winning entries of the fashion competition each year become one of the most popular collections of the museum. Here is the full set of Mary Quint's 1963 award-winning work. Mary Quant, a famous British fashion designer in the 1960s, is best known for her geometric designs, and she is also considered the creator of the miniskirt. Also on display is a "Stop Killing Whales" T-shirt designed by British fashion designer Catherine Hamnet in the 1980s with an environmental theme. Dresses worn by the famous American movie star Jennifer Lopez by the famous fashion designer Versace were shining on the booth.

　　The museum's biggest draw for female visitors is a replica of the skirt lining and corset worn by "Gone with the Wind" heroine Scarlett Hawley. Visitors can try on the skirt lining and corset in person, and feel and sigh with emotion about Scarlett's so-called 18.5-inch waist.

　　

　　The Peter Rivers Archaeological Museum,

　　Oxford, now owned by the University of Oxford, has exhibits related to archaeological excavations and ethnographic studies, which may sound professional, but most of the collections were originally personal collections, owned by the owner, Pete Rivers. Firth was a general who fought in the Crimean War and died in 1900. On his deathbed, he donated his entire collection to Oxford University. After that, many scholars, travelers and ethnographic research experts joined the team of donating collections one after another, and all kinds of exotic collections with distinctive and exotic flavors from all over the world were successively placed in the museum's glass showcases, forming a three-story exhibition hall. Museum of Archaeological Collections.

　　There are hideous religious statues from the Democratic Republic of Congo, crocodile mummies, totem poles from British Columbia, Canada, and souvenirs from Captain Cook's South Pacific expeditions.

　　The exhibits here are displayed thematically, so you'll find all the amulets placed alongside the spells.

　　Freud believed that people who were obsessed with collecting were psychopaths and losers. Regardless of whether these collectors are abnormal or failed, the collections that reflect human evolution, human civilization, and human history development in the three-story exhibition hall are enough to indulge visitors and become witnesses of history.

　　

　　Hunter Specimen Museum

　　The Hunter Biospecimen Museum in London, named after the 18th-century anatomist John Hunter, is located in the Royal College of Surgeons in George Square. The quiet environment and pleasant scenery here are incompatible with the contents of the collection. Because what is collected and exhibited here are all animal and human organ specimens immersed in formalin liquid in rows of glassware, although the furnishings in the exhibition hall are neat and luxurious, and there is no lack of old-fashioned laboratory style, but to On this visit you will feel that the collection here is not only unusual, but also terrifying.

　　Those deformed biological specimens soaked in formalin can stun children of all ages who come here. Among the specimens are a false nose, which belonged to a woman who lost her real nose to syphilis, and a four-legged, deformed chicken, and even Churchill's dentures became a specimen here.

　　Such museums are not designed to scare people, their real purpose is to show people the history of various diseases and their treatments for professionals to study and study. Of course, visitors can also use their imaginations to imagine the bizarre stories behind the misshapen specimens in the glassware.