Do I have to start in every country disliking it?

Jul 05, 2010 23:12

In Cairo now. More precisely, Islamic CairoWent to the Egyptian Museum this afternoon, which turned out to be rather disappointing due to the artifacts being extremely poorly curated (even in Arabic) and subpar lighting. After the King Tut experience in NYC, I probably I expected too much. Still, it felt like the place had too many priceless pieces ( Read more... )

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uminohikari July 6 2010, 02:37:22 UTC
Aww, did they have many artifacts? That may explain them not being able to curate them all..

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snowlight July 6 2010, 12:50:50 UTC
Yeah. The thing is I think only about 0.1% of the stuff were actually curated, if that. (Probably even less.) I'd say more than half of the things there didn't even have labels (in any language.) And the locations they put the text were often very bad.

With that said, I found out today that they DO have audio guides. The person probably didn't sell me one because he thought I didn't speak English. -________-

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我记得埃及是有个很有名的汉语导游的。。。 alexwish2005 July 8 2010, 13:30:50 UTC
ps 求有能增强XXOO能力的饰品。。。【扑】

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