London Adventures

Yesterday (Saturday Sept 24) I had an Art History field study trip to the British Museum. However, the class is so big that we were divided into groups; and my group didn't have to be at the museum until 2:45, even though we were dropped off in London at 10:30 am. So four of us spent the morning exploring London- so much fun!

First we took the tube into central London- at the beginning, we picked a station at random to get off at. Along the way though, construction interrupted the line, and so we had to get off, ride a red double-decker bus, and then get back on the tube at a different station.

Once we reached our station, we got off and decided to walk around, the rule being that we couldn't consult any maps. We soon reached the Museum of London, and spent quite a bit of the morning in there! It was really interesting, well laid out, good interactive exhibits. We didn't even have time to get through it all properly.

Interesting exhibit about the MOLA [Museum
of London Archaeology] Team and its work in the city

After the museum, we started the 40-minute walk to the British Museum (using maps this time). We walked along Fleet Street for part of the way, and also stopped along the way to see several different buildings, although we didn't go inside any:

St. Paul's Cathedral

Famous tea brand; this store was opened 300+ years ago!

Huge building, couldn't get it all in one picture-
settled for just the sign instead!

The interior was the set of Gringotts Bank
in the Harry Potter films! We couldn't go
inside though, since it's closed on weekends.

London School of Economics. This is for you Eunice! <3

Another building down the street from the main LSE campus.

We reached the British Museum a bit early so waited by the front entrance to meet up with the rest of our group. Here's what the sign said:

But was anyone obeying? It appeared not:

Here's some shots of the outside of the museum:

We had a two-hour tour led by our Art History professor, which definitely gave me much more insight than I would have gotten on my own. We spent the whole time in the different Greek sculpture galleries (Parthenon, and Archaic to Hellenistic sculpture), because that's what we're focusing on in class right now. I'm writing a paper for this class on Early Classical Greek sculpture, so I took extra photos of the Early Classical examples that we saw in the museum! 

The Chatsworth Head, one of the Early
Classical works I'm focusing on