Daegu National Museum

relief from iran
Originally uploaded by Alison J. L.

Made our way to the museum today to see what was to be seen. It was actually pretty great. They had an exhibit on "The Glory of Persia" about Iranian history pre-Alexander the Great invasion and slightly after. There were some beautiful architectural things and some really old jewelry and a video about the huge palace in Persepolis built forever ago pre romanization. We got to make stamp replicas in fimo which will be hung on the wall once they dry and pretend to be archeologists in the kids' playroom. It seemed like the sort of thing you would never see in the states, because we're all about celebrating those Greek and Roman guys, when really they got all their ideas from Asia and the Middle East via the silk road. After we were museumed-out we went shopping at E-Mart and got a million things we needed and a few we probably didn't (except the tortilla chips---needed those). We had an amazing dinner of mushrooms, broccoli and steamed mussels by our very own Chef Timber by the glow of the Christmas tree. I like Saturdays.