Cultureshock

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The Great North museum was originally called the Hancock museum. I would have been about eight or nine when I first went. I travelled there by bus. As I was getting closer to the museum looking back now I think there was a feeling of adventure and excitement on arrival. The first time I went the first thing I saw was a collection of birds eggs, from ostrich eggs to hummingbirds. I think there was about one hundred different types of eggs all together. The second time I went in the same department there was a tropical fish tank this time. It was about twelve to eighteen foot long, about five foot high and about four foot in diameter I think. There was a lot of different types of fish, there was also plants in the tank as well. There was loads of different species there. There was shoals of fish, of about twenty or thirty as well. Also, there was big fish as well.

Then I walked into the next department which was stuffed animals. There was a fox, lion, buffalo, moose, wolves, which is all I can remember. Also there was birds as well, there was a pheasant sitting on a clutch of eggs next to its nest. There was eagles, hawks, kestrels and something that looked like a dodo.

There was also a part on dinosaurs which also showed your scale size next to them, next to something you could compare it to. There was a mammoth also there was a scene of cavemen and women sitting round a fire next to a cave entrance. There was also a velociraptor, brontosaurus, pterodactyls also fossils.

Also there was a military part. There was a part on how soldiers dressed in different time periods. There was Normans and castles and churches. There was Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, a Celtic druid, Normans and their ladies plus castles and churches, Vikings and Saxons, archers, knights in armour, Samurai also American soldiers and American Indians in their wigwam. Also first and second world war scenes which I could press a button for sound effects. Also there was an enigma machine and a morse code. There was also Mongolian soldiers as well.

Also there was a picture of the Great Wall of China which was shown as a photograph from the moon. There was also a part on Scouts and the founder, I think there was something on Girl Guides as well. There was also something on the bridges on the Tyne getting built. Also a photo of the Tyne bridge getting built. Also there was a part on the Empire State building being the highest building in the world at the time.

There was a part on Egyptians eg pyramids and their coffins and sarcophagus, mummified skeletons also wrapped in bandages and writings in pictures. Also a part on Romans showing their coins and how they dressed from casuals to soldiers. There was a part on the aquaducts and the baths, how they bathes as well.

If I remember correctly I think the final and last part was about planets and some named constellations and a bit about black holes entering the not known. Then I seen an exit sign and left with my stepfather. Then we went towards the Haymarket and caught a bus and went back home with loads of memories