Auckland War Memorial Museum Visit

On the lecture today,we went to the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
The whole museum was seperated into parts,each section is introducing different cultural group,different things like animals,insects etc. They were all amazing and discussing each idea in details.But the most interesting section to me was the one about musical instruments.
Here is some photos I took in that section:








The reason why I'm into this section more is because I love instruments and especially the ones that are made of wood. So when I went to this section I was like oh my god haha.
The whole sections included many kinds of instruments,but the ones that I digged more were the chinese ones which are shown at the photos above.
They displayed quite a few of chinese instruments,they are included: trumpet, sanxian, yueqin, lo, sheng, sana, pili and yangqin. Most of them are made out of wood, copper , brass, bamboo. Some of them even made of snakeskin and gut.This makes them look really causal to me,unlike the instruments that are in golden or made by metal. And obviously people use them for making music and melody.

I found these objects really attractive because I'm a big fan of things which are made of wood and look old. In the old days, the people who could play these instruments (especially the last photo) are mostly girls and the ones who are well eduacted.It was because in the old china, familes who were poor, they made their son or daughter to work which means they had no time on instruments or any other hobbies, and they didnt have the right to do or say anything for themselves, they just had to do whatever their parents told them to.

The objects are displayed in a glass box and I reckon it's a really boring way to do it. The lighting of the whole room was pretty dark as well and it was silent. If I had a chance to organise this room again, I would at least put some music on because it is a section about instruments, how could it be without music! right?! Other then that, I reckon for each section should provide photos or videos of people playing them.For example, the chinese section should provide videos of chinese ladies playing either of the instruments, from that people not only understand how the instruments ,but how the chinese people from the old days dress and they could know about more about the cultural as well.

Visiting Auckland Art Gallery

On the short trip to Auckland Art Gallery on Tuesday,I have seen some pretty interesting artworks there and the one which impressed me the most was the big black cloud made with microphones. That was a massive work in a gallery and I reckon it looks scary to me. haha
But I think it isn't the best work that links to risk and adventure.
One of the artworks in the gallery that I found it fits to these two terms was the one that made of different parts of a car. The car was smashed into different pieces and lying down on the floor so it formed a nice shape. The reason why is because car is a transport which could brings you to anywhere you want, while you are in a car, its like taking an adventure and taking a risk as well,

The other one that I saw was the one called "Room with a Bird"
It fits the theme so much because it looks like there was a bird which was stuck in the room
and its trying to escape,the things that was hanging from the walls makes the bird like flying around the room. The artist left a window on the wall in order to make the viewers think that the bird is not at a closed room, and it had a chance to escape,to take risk and has its adventure.

These are what I think about the show and I know I might misunderstand the meaning of risk and adventure lol,but yeaaa