I went to the Immigration Museum for the first time yesterday, and I must admit that I did not actually look at any of the immigration stuff at all. I only went to look at the Greek stuff that is currently there, on loan from a museum in Athens. I thought it was all Classical stuff, but it was actually stuff from neolithic times right up to the nineteenth century. The medieval/Byzantine-era stuff was pretty cool, but I really loved the classical gear. I frequently caught myself thinking “oh yeh, nice enough…” – and then realising it was something made about 3000 years ago, so not only do you have to appreciate the sheer artistry of the piece, but you also have to appreciate the fact that it has survived at all. There was pottery, jewellery, a couple of heads of statues… it was awesome.

The one complaint I have is with regard to the captions. The captions themselves were quite informative, but matching the caption with the artefact was sometimes quite difficult – because although each piece was numbered, and so were the captions, the pieces weren’t always arranged in numerical order! For no reason in particular, far as I could see, so it just seemed random. And if they wanted to arrange them that way, why didn’t they just re-number them? Anyway. Small issue.