I was at a museum today and now I feel really old

[NiceSkinHereICome]

Okay so I was killing time today as I was early for something and I decided to pop into the local museum/art gallery. Lots of interesting things.

However I just about choked when I got to the section that showed kitchens from various ages like the fifties etc. They had a bloody kitchen from the nineties - It looked just like the one I had in my first house (I'm in my fifties) and they had signs explaining all the new technology of the era. Bloody Nora, things from my era and in a museum!

Then they had another section with toys from yesteryear. There they had the fisher price garage my wee brother got when he was small. A rubix cube, a nokia mobile and other things that quite frankly I didn't consider really old enough to be in a museum.

It's hard to believe youngsters need this stuff in a museum because it now considered old/vintage/interesting enough.

I should have taken a photo of them both so you could have had a chuckle and I might go back and do that.

Anyone else in their fifties amused that we are now old enough to be featuring in museums.

I'm 46 and I hear you! Although my view is that if the staff didn't grab me and pop me in a display case with my own little artefact description then I am probably not quite over the hill just yet...

My ds is doing A level history. He is learning about Thatcher and Major, that's not history that was only a few months ago surely.

My mum once found plates and bowls like I have in a museum

They're ones my parents face me when I moved out. They're only sone 20 years old

My DH did an archaeology degree in his fifties. At one point they were behind the scenes at a museum, and had to put on special gloves to handle some old coins…some of which DH used to get in his pocket money 😂😂😂

I think I'm too scared to go back in case they stuff me in a display case since I'm in my fifties.

Haha. I found my childhood bedding in a museum like that once. Does not feel good!

ouch. Was it schillings?

Nah, they would have pounced on you when they saw you - you're still free!

I was very put out to see my Sindy house in a sodding museum 😮

Another story, this one happened to DH’s mum.

In the 80s or 90s, her hairdryer broke. She took it into Boots to see if it could be repaired (bless her). They were gobsmacked - it was so old, they didn’t even have it in their archives. So they asked if they could keep it!

Oh my goodness and does he talk about these prime ministers that we used to have years ago like it's 100 years ago and not 30-40.

I watched a documentary about 9/11 recently and they way they were talking was like it was a huge event in history like WW2. Now I suppose it is to a degree but it was only just over 20 years ago FGS.

Then I meet youngsters who have never heard of it.............

It's official - I am old now. (how did that happen.....)

The technology displays in the Science museum put some time into perspective. Things like the original candle stick telephones from the late 1800s which feels like an ancient old thing next to a Nokia 3310 of which I have one in a drawer somewhere.

Ha ha! I'm 37 OP. Took my kids to a science museum over the summer and they had a Nokia 3310 displayed there too! Blew my mind! In fairness, the display was all about what smart phones have replaced, so there was also a radio alarm clock, a digital camera and a Walkman cd player <Insert nostalgic sigh here>.

Groats 😉

DS was telling me about his GCSE history lesson on the Berlin Wall. I told him the wall came down as I was doing my history GCSE so history was happening as we learnt it!! 🫣

lol. Still I might colour my grey roots before I go back just in case.

Once might have been luck. I don't want to risk it a 2nd time.......

I think you misunderstand, museums are not for just old things, but items of yes, historical, but also scientific, artistic and cultural value. You can buy a Rubics Cube at any toy store today, but including it in a museum acknowledges its cultural significance. Just because you recognise items from your youth doesn’t imply that these things are necessarily archaic.

No he is quite interested in what we remember about the 80s and 90s politics. We watched bits of old Spitting Image which he quite enjoyed.

honestly if feels quite shocking doesn't it. Like I'm now in a historic drama. My own version of Downton Abbey except it's about my life in my nineties kitchen with my nokia phone (and ssssshhhh old style phone attached to the wall with an actual phone line!)

When I was at primary school we used to watch a program called ‘How we used to live’ about family life in the 40s and 50s. It blew my mind to realise that that’s the equivalent of watching a program about life in the 80s and 90s now.

😂

my parents had this blue hairdryer which took ages to dry your hair, made a burning smell and had been around forever.

When I cleared out their house in 2023 it was still bloody there - this hairdryer that they had had in the seventies. Mind you I also found ration books from WW2 so the hairdryer was still a 'youngster'

There was an exhibit about Covid when we went to the Science Museum a couple of years ago.
It did sort of reinforce that it was a major event scientifically, not just socially.

You're my age! I remember telling my goddaughter the exact same thing when she was doing her A Levels earlier this year. She said: "But Arlanymor that was AGGESSSSS ago! You're such a relic!" It just made me laugh but her mum who is five years older than me said: "Erm, excuse me!"

dear lord. Did your kids put the boot in and say 'mummy what's that strange box with headphones'

Mind you when I had a walkman mine was a cassette player so not even the CD one. The original one. Fuck I am old then.