39 31 October 2020 Wigan Museum
With the weather being awful, I chose Wigan Museum as our destination for this weekend. We stopped for petrol on the way. We went to Gregg's in Wigan for a breakfast bap before going down to the museum.
This being Wigan, there was a special exhibition on the miners' strike.
There were also exhibits about gay pride and Black Lives Matter which made the political inclinations of the curators pretty clear. Simon was more excited about the wax cylinder in the music display.
There was a small Egyptology section.
The natural history section had a stuffed python.
As we were leaving, the attendant suggested we visit some exhibitions in the upstairs of the Galleries Shopping Centre. We found our way there via a Victorian shopping arcade.
The exhibitions were linked together by a loose concept The Fire Within . The first one had a 3D mountain landscape.
The next one had Spiderman invading an Asian family gathering.
We then tacked on to a guide with another family. There was an exhibition relating to yawn, Alan Turing , trotted out the party line about him inventing the computer and winning the Second World War second handed.
The next one related to the very famous Alan Horsfall, a Wigan man who wrote a gay pamphlet in the 1960s and didn't get beaten up proving that Wigan was a very tolerant community even then. Tiring of being preached at, we peeled off from the tour and examined two gloomy pictures by artist Theodore Major which I quite liked.
After that we went for lunch in Wetherspoons then headed for home, stopping at Asda's to do the week's shopping on the way .
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