Vikings: life and legend
Frustrating exhibition at the British Museum looking at Viking culture and how it influenced and was influenced by the rest of Europe. I say frustrating because it was very busy and the first room is quite cramped so it involved a lot of queuing. Thanks to the attendant who tried to alleviate this by telling people to move on round where there was more space but if you did that you’d miss out about 4 displays! Also because it was cramped you either queued to look at things or read the commentary, you couldn’t do both! Because of that I seemed to miss the narrative for the first couple of rooms so wasn’t too sure what they were trying to say as the artefacts didn’t seem to be Viking but to be from lands they invaded. Oh and while I’m moaning can I mention not puttying the description of objects so low down where they get covered up by people and where most of your middle aged audience have to bend down to read them due to their varifocals! The general message seemed to be t...