Virtual Museum Launch!
We are very excited - the 1st of January 2023 sees the launch of The Travel Museum official website. Welcome to our virtual world and we hope to be in the physical world too - soon!
The web site shows a small fraction of what we have to offer and we are still busy cataloging and collating it all, let along photographing it and assessing conservation levels. We hope to introduce more on the work of the museum and how we grade condition, put together our collections, and actions we take to conserve our artefacts.
We really hope you enjoy the limited content and we hope to both add both more content and “upgrade” the quality of the photographs and videos as time allows. The current photographs are all straight from camera and have had no photo-shopping, which we think is how we like it - original. We will at some point correct parallax and do a bit of cropping,, but we don’t want to do too much to them.
There are some stock and internet photos used and we have tried to label everything as much as possible so you know what you are looking at. Eventually we would like for all the photos to be just museum originals.
The items labeled as artefacts are all in the museum collection, and most will fit in a back pack or a suitcase - that’s how we got them! We have tried to be as ethical as possible in sourcing our collection, and making it available for public display.
Some items are obviously not so ethical but in context they are correct. Furs for example are very much part of inuit and Sami culture and both by-products of their lifestyle (eg food) and very much necassary to survive. They are not the problem when it comes to the wider picture and it is the both the disposalble world we have created and mass industries which creat the wider environmental issues. For example eating a goose for food and then using its feathers for warmth and decoration does not affect the overall population, where as setting up an open toxic fracking pond in which 1000’s of geese die when they settle on it does.
Enjoy - The Museum Curator.