The rest of the Canterbury Museum gave you the impression that a resident that was a chronic hoarder died, and they didn’t know what to do with all of her stuff. But they had this big empty museum. So they cleaned it all off, sorted it into categories and put it on display.
There was a spoon, and an old deck of playing cards.
A bunch of old clothing.
A collection of fans.
A bunch of silver.
Some china.
Hunting trophies
Hundreds of T-shirts
A giant hunk of iron they claim contained microscopic diamonds.
And an entire room full of Travel New Zealand Posters.
Even a stationary bike!
A scale model of a star. This is actually the companion to one we saw in Los Angeles last summer. The solar system is located in Kent, UK at a scale of 1:4.6 billion. Pluto is 1km away from the sun in that model, and the stars are located in California, Australia and the Falkland Islands. This star is the 7th closest star to the sun.
A sea sponge skeleton.
And last but not least, an Egyptian mummy.
One woman had a house so full of shells that they didn’t even bother taking them out, they just moved the entire cottage into the museum!
