Visit to the Eiteljorg

To me, this visit could have been so beneficial, but we only had about 45 minutes to explore the whole museum, and most of it was spent in one section, looking for answers. I, and I am sure many others, would have preferred walking around the whole thing and actually being able to see what is in the museum.  There are three levels to the museum and having so little time to do that just doesn’t work. 

Since we didn’t have much time to look around at everything, especially artwork, which I really enjoy, my expectations of the museum were the same as my experience, but like I said, mainly because we were not able to see everything. I found stuff interesting, but I would have preferred a more hands-on experience than just walking and looking.  They did have mini hands-on projects, such as the basket weaving thing, but that was really kind of it.

Valuable would not be the word I would use to describe a freshman’s visit to this museum. We freshmen look at it as a get out jail, aka class, card. Some arrive at the museum and find it interesting; while others just wish we would have had class or been in the classroom. Visiting as a class allowed us to look at it in more of a learning experience, whereas if we would have visited at strictly tourists, we would have been able to just look, and take in knowledge we wanted to take in, not have to take in.

Overall the trip had its up and downs, it gave us knowledge of the first settlers in Indiana, and got us out of class, but time could have been giving and gave us more of it. Maybe, I will go again as a tourist and explore all the levels of the museum, and take in more knowledge at the same time. But for now, I will cope with the knowledge I have from my short visit.