museums nat'l in 2018

right so as put:

‘ 2 museums. v&a and british. as well as the nat’l portrait gallery. where actually we heard 2, free talks. ‘

yeah so the v&a is cool. it was my second visit there. We had a free 30 min. walking tour by a lady named Jane. she was good. um oh. so one of the 18th cent. dresses on display in the museum. well during one celebration of Guy Fawkes Day. People would burn like. um bags of clothes. only. a/the [young] woman who came upon this dress. she saw the fabric in the bag wasn’t sure what it was and just began pulling.........and pulling.........and pulling and out came the dress. and somehow that. made its way into the museum.
ok so that would’ve been either in. 1852 or sometime after, as that’s when the museum was established. evidently the first guy fawkes day was nov. 5, 1605. for some reason i thought it started in the 1980’s. and i don’t know why.........but no.
So Jane talked about the jewels they have there. and um. oh we ended in the photo um. room so that was cool. yeah well. you know way back when. the camera was invented. well so instead of drawing. a bunch of birds or w/e. in nature a person just. took a photo of them therefore saving time. they have a ring of Beyonce’s. in the jewelry part not the photo part. ooh and i got to translate [well. not translate. um interpret] part of a poem. written by Emilie Georgina someone. She was a woman in the 19th cent. who’d been sick. and in the poem it said the lines ‘wild and mild’ which troubled Jane. as she indirectly told us. ‘us’ being the tour group. and i thought for a minute. and my take on the poem was that. even though emilie’s life was sad. she still wanted something bigger, for herself. something new. but her body just. her body was sick. and the 2 didn’t match. yeah it was a pretty good moment for me. Jane told me I was insightful. which i’ve discovered as late. means someone who sees things most people miss. ya know. she’s not the first to tell me that. right so i liked that part in particular. of course.
um yeah we went to the British Museum that was on our last day. my mom & I had lunch there i had pasta salad and we split a brownie. and we had this sour lemonade. let’s see..........we saw the Portland vase. and another one by it it was silver depicted a gay love scene. so i thought that was interesting. We saw the egypt/middle east part. and the mosaics those are cool. i like the ceiling in there the British Museum. yeah those museums are free the big ones. a person can just walk in there see any exhibit any part they want usually. depending. a few of the exhibits people have to pay to see so they’re different in that way.
oh yeah my mom was tired that’s why our british museum visit was shortened. i was a bit tired myself so i didn’t mind heading back early. this was fri. and our flight was sat. so it’s just as well.
oh yeah we ate lunch in the v&a. in a beautiful room. they have 3 places to eat in there apparently we’ve only been to the one. and i forget what that one is called...........anyway. i had a chutney sandwich and we split lemonade. i forgot what she got to eat. my mom.
oh yeah like i said. We went to the Nat’l Portrait Gallery twice 2 free talks. the first was a lot more interesting. the guy was from scotland or manchester since apparently the accents are similiar. he was good. he was animated. The talk was on Greta Garbo’s friendship w/ cecil b. someone. the guy who designed the costumes for My Fair Lady. the movie. w/ audrey hepburn. so they showed photos of Garbo and played film clips. i got to see a small bit of her movie ‘queen christine’. i like old movies. they think Garbo might not have been completely straight since she had a relationship w/........oh god i don’t remember her name. but story goes this woman had every woman in hollywood at the time. Garbo and the cecil guy had an apparent love affair. in 1972 was when they ended their friendship. she ended it actually. as he’d oh. she was rather a private person and he published something on her w/o her consent. and she was just. done w/ him at that point.
so anyway. it was interesting. she died in 1990 apparently. april. wow. i was 2.5 when she died as i was born in aug. of ‘87.
um. right so the second talk. which we went to on another day. the woman hannah talked about this guy in a painting. she was i mean she was fine. she just. she lacked experience [well everyone starts somewhere] and it was boring. the talk not the lack of experience part. she didn’t interact w/ the audience at all whereas the guy from manchester or scotland did.