The Pitt Rivers museum

Me and my creative and media class went to the Pitt rivers History museum to create and look at memories, this trip was to try and create inspiration and get a better insight on human memories and history.

Our first task was to be split into small groups and seek out an object on the first floor on the museum, We had to determine the origin and the purpose of the object

Our next task was too look around the whole museum and find an object that inspired us and were interested in. This would have to be an object that we were mildly interested in but didn't have to be the main inspiration because we would be later able to branch off in different directions. The object that i chose was a poacher trap, this object interested me, this is because at first I thought that it was for bears, i thought this was inhumane for animals, but to be used for humans was unreal and sinister. A few other questions that sprung to mind was 'what is used now to counter poachers?' and it is a perfectly humane alarm witch just rings at a high level of decibels.

The rhetorical questions that have to be used with my initial ideas are, Should humans be hurt for poaching? Should Humans have the same preventions as animals ?.

Overall i did not think that the Pitt Rivers museum would be interesting at all, but i was surprised because I found the trip very interesting and inspirational and enjoyed it very much.