Museum Date

Today I went to the Royal Armouries with my boyfriend for a little day trip. I love museums as I'm hoping to have a historical profession (potentially teaching primary schools) and almost everything about the past intrigues me, specifically seeing how it has developed or changed today's world. Anyway, we went to the museum... There were some great opportunities within the museum, Richard even tried the crossbows! He was like a big baby playing with his new toys. Only he was quite bad at it, which I continuously bullied him over. We managed to somehow skip 3 floors and struggled how to find the way to each one but managed in the end. We had a cute little dinner while being there and I, of course, came across the penny press, so obviously my collection of pressed pennies grew! I love them, it's like a cute souvenir. They feel like upgraded postcards to me. History is so fascinating and I love how no matter which museum I go to (so far) I'm able to link something I've learnt either in school or at home to at least one of their displays. It's such a great feeling to feel intelligent, to feel like I know things that are displayed in a manner to teach us. The above image made me laugh, the quote was intriguing to me, because honestly, it's 100% true. Royal Armouries taught me that the human race has done so much and focused such an immense amount of time into warfare and arms- that we are basically constantly finding new methods and new technology to kill. This doesn't intrigue me in the sense of liking the idea of people killing each other, don't get me wrong, I'm not a sadist... But in the sense of achievements? The human race is supposedly learning from the past, from the wars, from the hatred, from the holocaust for example, yet we are CONTINUOUSLY creating and developing our methods of murder. Are we actually learning from the past? Or are we trying to develop it?