Ayers museum in Adelaide

Ayers Museum. My impressions.

I decided to go to this museum because I was bored and because I have already seen almost all other attractions of Adelaide. I didn’t consider this museum to be something extraordinary, but I was wrong.

First of all, as it is not very popular among the tourists, the groups are vey small(2-6people) .It makes the excursion so much more pleasant and relaxed. One doesn’t have any problems in hearing the guide plus can see everything very well.

Our guide was excellent, very knowledgeable, passionate about the museum and tried to present the information in an interesting way. I was not bored at all during this hour and a half excursion.

I learned a lot about this extraordinary man who was the prime minister of Australia several times. He became extraordinary reach because of his intellect, willingness to risk and lots of opportunities for newcomers that Australia was giving .

I am thankful to this museum for ability to present the life of a rich person in 19^th century. We saw all the premises starting from the dining room to the kitchens. The life of people in the context of this or that period has always been very interesting to me.

For example, I found out that :

· One of the reasons why rich people rarely smiled was that they had very poor teeth as they could afford to buy sugar unlike common people.

· We were shown nice little boxes for tea as it was very expensive. I pound of it costed like a year salary of a servant. To stop servants from stealing the owners kept their tea in beautifully inlayed locked boxes.

· It is easy to define the chair for a woman from the chair or the man as the one for a man has handles. Women couladn’t relax their body on the back of the chair because otherwise parts of their dress would hurt their abdomen area. So women always were sitting in an upright position.

· This museum possesses quite a nice collection of dolls. They had human hair on the head. Dolls were the ways to move the fashion from country to country. There is also a nice little collection of miniature porcelain sets that were carried by the traveling vendors .They showed people what they could purchase from them.

· We were also shown the nursery with different cradles and toys. Cradles were not very high enough that resulted in frequent traumas and deaths .

· I was impressed by the face screens that protected the face covered in wax-based make-up(so that it won’t melt) from the heat coming from the fireplace.

· We were shown multiple tiny nice little things that belonged to the women (special cases for the coins for tipping(women didn’t carry banknotes)and men(I liked pipes ,especially the ones for opium)

· I got a lot of pleasure from observing the kitchen utensils, like irons and the first manual washing mashines.

Thanks to this museum for the exciting recreation of the past.