Here is a little history of the museum according to their website:
"Victorian tea trader Frederick John Horniman began collecting specimens and artefacts from around the World in the 1860's. Horniman's key mission was to bring the world to Forest Hill and he opened part of his family house to the public so they could view the riches he had collected. As the collections increased they outgrew the family home and in 1898 Horniman commissioned Charles Harrison Townsend to design a new Museum.
The Museum opened in 1901 and was dedicated with the surrounding land as a free gift to the people of London by Frederick Horniman forever for their recreation instruction and enjoyment. The original collections comprised natural history specimens, cultural artefacts and musical instruments. Over the last 100 years the Museum has added significantly to the original bequest with Horniman's original collections comprising only 10 per cent of current ethnography and musical instrument holdings.
Further buildings were added to the original during the course of the last century notably in 1911 when a new building was donated by Frederick's son Emslie. In 1999 the Museum demolished some of the later additions and embarked on a Centenary Development to create a new extension and several associated spaces. It opened in June 2002."
Everyone seemed to have a really awesome day, we met an escaped cricket and promptly fed it to a four eyed fish, whose owner then told us some pretty amazing facts about them. Did you know that four eyed fish are right or left handed when it comes to the sweet sweet act of making lurrrrve? A right handed fish can only mate with another right handed fish and vice versa! HOWEVER if you were to mix right and left handed fish juices together then they would still work and make a baby fish! That will come in useful some day I am sure.
Did anyone do any life drawing or take any good pictures? I drew a terrifying picture of a cross section of a pidgeon! If you have any that you'd like to share put them up!
I hope everyone is excited about Friday!
Love,
Rosie
Everyone seemed to have a really awesome day, we met an escaped cricket and promptly fed it to a four eyed fish, whose owner then told us some pretty amazing facts about them. Did you know that four eyed fish are right or left handed when it comes to the sweet sweet act of making lurrrrve? A right handed fish can only mate with another right handed fish and vice versa! HOWEVER if you were to mix right and left handed fish juices together then they would still work and make a baby fish! That will come in useful some day I am sure.
Did anyone do any life drawing or take any good pictures? I drew a terrifying picture of a cross section of a pidgeon! If you have any that you'd like to share put them up!
I hope everyone is excited about Friday!
Love,
Rosie
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