Cultureshock

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At some point in your life you will remember a time when you really enjoyed yourself, but the activity has now gone. During a visit to Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, I remembered such a time.

It was a miserable and rainy day. However I had just heard that a new museum had just opened. I was overjoyed when my family decided to visit the new Sunderland Museum. I saw loads of displays and all the activities were fun. We first entered the reception, to the right was the gift shop overflowing with toys and souvenirs. We wandered around the museum and one section stood out above the rest. The mining section, it was not the displays but the activities that grasped my attention; the first was a small tunnel which you could crawl through. Me and my sister each were given a helmet and we ventured in. It was as black as coal and the walls were shaped like a mining shaft. We loved it so much that every time we visited the museum we went into the tunnel.

As we left the tunnel on our first visit, we looked to our right. There in the corner was a mining cart with a LED display above it. It showed how hard you needed to push to move the cart. No matter how hard we pushed we weren't strong enough to move the cart.  Another part of the mining section was the school. There was a wooden table with slate tablets on it. We spent ages writing with the chalk, pretending we were at school.

I returned many times to the museum, too old to play, too young to remember. Recently I went on another visit as part of Culture Shock, I looked back and remembered all the best parts of the museum that are gone now. However I must now look to the future of the museum and promote it's value to younger people.