Inspire Me

Inspiration

What inspires us of course varies from person to person, but here are a few ideas to get you started. As we are a social ethnographical museum with a natural history overlay, (which basically translates as people and the planet) we are interested in how our cultures start and evolve, and of course how and why some of them die out, and what lessons we can derive from this. Many museums are quite static; recording a period of time and space, but ours is intended to evolve as the world does, as well as recording history and exploring a little bit of this amazing spinning lump of metal, rock, and water which has allowed this unique collection of lifeforms to evolve interact with each other.

If you are looking for golden beaches and sun drenched poolside relaxation with a cocktail and a good book, you are unlikely to find it here. Although we will delve into the relaxation and recuperation (R&R) part of life from time to time, as let’s face it we all need a bit of time to unwind and check out from our modern hectic lifestyles. The Travel Museum is more about culture, adventure and exploration, nature and mountains and the wild activities we indulge in whilst travelling, and of course the people we meet along the journey. In later sections we will be exploring Inuit and indigenous first nation peoples and how they fare in our modern world.

It is often our ancestors world which we explore whether it be Stone Henge, Tikal, Machu Picchu, World Heritage sites or any number of exciting venues all of which have a tale to tell.

A big part of the Travel Museum is recording the travellers tales, and the first hand accounts from the people you meet, rather than just what you read in the history books, and it’s this social real-world interface that fascinates us. Sounds and noises are also big trigger points in travel adventure and the cacophony of sounds of big sprawling metropolises such as New Delhi, Tokyo or New York as build a a picture just as vivid if not more so than any photograph. Just a pity we can’t capture the smells of a street food market, or the pungent aroma of arriving at a penguin colony. (We’d probably have a lot less visitors if we did!).

We hope that the Museum and this site will be whimsical and fun, as well as the more serious elements, and we certainly do not take ourselves too seriously; travel after all in the tourism sense is a hedonistic business, which is supposed to be full of frivolity and amusement.

Enjoy.