Sunday, January 8, 2012

The British Museum!

We went to the British Museum!


Okay, disclaimer, we were only there for two hours, so we only made a small dent in what we were actually able to see, but we will be back! Here's some of the highlights from our first trip to the museum:





We saw The Great Wave! (I.e. Intro art history dreams coming true)


Some chalices: 


He chose...poorly. (If you get this reference you are my best friend)


What I'd like to think of as the horn of Gondor


Some works by Louis Comfort Tiffany 

 Napoleon's death mask
This is actually a clock...


An alarm clock from 1600




The Rosetta Stone!

The Sarcophagus of Merrymose, sound familiar to any of you art history majors?




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