The mystery museum!

It's a drab dreary day in Durham. A few of us have come up to the Oriental Museum for the Wednesday afternoon session (we can't make the Saturday session). Initially we were given a group of 'mystery' objects, which belonged to one person. We had to rank them in terms of fhier value and importance to that person (without knowing who they belonged too!). We recorded our initial reactions to each of them (we cannot say too much because the people who come on Saturday haven't seen them yet). After recording why we ranked them the way we did and our initial impressions the owner of the objects came and spoke to us about them. We then had to re-order them! It helped us to see how interpretations of a single object could vary depending on who was viewing them! We then recorded some of our intial reactions to Chinese objects and planned the London trip to the Horniman museum SOTW conference!