Museum visits

I've been to Brewhouse Yard museum last week. If you visit the museum between Monday to Friday and lives in Nottingham, the entry fee is free.

The museum shows the social history of Nottingham over the last 300 years. It contain a mixture of reconstructed room and shop settings, and gallery displays.
On the second floor, there are some toys being displayed in a timeline, some old to some recent toys. I recognized some of the toys displayed in this museum, such as Tamagocchi, Bay-blade..etc.

Basically the museum lets us feel and experience the Victorian homes and shops, see inside children's bedroom, Edwardian grocery shop, displays of Victorian chemist..etc. There was also a root to underground cave ('unusual rock-cut caves', where it was used as a kitchen, ironing room, storage, living room, and was used as air raid shelters during the Second World War. for the people in Nottingham in olden times.

Here are few pictures that I took in the museum:



A living room with old card games and organ piano:



Chemist, with a special kind of storage for poison:



Displays of a shoe shop:



I think it was really interesting to see how people use to live without mechanical inventions i.e. computers, printers, and heater..etc. The telephone that I saw in this museum was also really interesting, there are no buttons to push and instead there was a handle at the side of the telephone and I think you need to move the handle in circle to dial the numbers. Just imagine how long its going to take to phone up a person!!
Also, the most interesting thing that I found was the designs for posters and packages for things. The use of colours and the style of drawings seem to have a same pattern. The colours are mostly primary colours, the drawings and fonts are very simple, which is really different to the designs we see now.