After lunch we were whisked off to a museum. This was an
unexpected stop on our tour, but it was a substitute for some gardens that were
closed. There were three floors to explore, and we picked out a few of the
exhibits that we wanted to see and we’d put the rest aside to view if there was
time. The first exhibition we saw was how trade was established with the use of
tools and the creation of the earliest coins which were simply circular discs
with squares punched through them. There were also some very colourful costumes,
although you do begin to question them when a man had a unicorn horn sticking
out of his turban. We also saw some very beautifully decorated longboats and
some musical instruments. I loved the pottery including a very strange water
jug that might have functioned as a bedpan, and a huge chest with handles that could
have been used as a gigantic teapot.
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