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.

okay I don't even know what that is. I will have to google. So there are people older than me ..........phew

I had the cassette one with the spongy orange headphones and the bit of metal across the top that got bent as soon as you'd look at it! Then the tape would get snagged up and you had to remove it carefully and re-spool it with a pencil, but even then your tape would have a kink in it forever and there would be 'jump' in the middle of one of the songs!

A groat is a defunct English and Irish silver coin worth four pence. It was also a Scottish coin originally worth fourpence, with later issues being valued at eightpence and one shilling. The term "groat" can also refer to any large coin circulated in Great Britain between the 13th and 19th centuries.

You learn something new everyday. I also can't spell shilling.

sssshhhhh you are ruining the moaning of the coffin dodgers here.
Read the room you fun spoiler!

Having grown up in a family who have never thrown anything out, I think it's quite normal to see stuff you grew up with in museums.

It's probably why I took a history degree - which was the early '90s, and we studied Thatcherism then. History is about the present as much as the past.

I have recently been to exhibitions on the '80s. This time next year, we'll be able to relive the '90s at Tate Britain.
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/the-90s

Went to the Beamish Museum with DM as a teenager, and she recognised most of the 1950s stuff from her childhood. I actually thought that was the appeal for a lot of people!

I’m not quite at the age where I would go into ecstasies over a replica Marathon bar (DM was excited to see a Fry’s Five Boys bar). But I’d probably be quite entertained by an old phone like this:

I think I watched that too.

Oh my goodness so youngsters today are now watching 'our era' the same way we watched that.

(Away to stick head in oven)

Last year my dd proudly proclaimed for their Christmas show this year they were all singing really old songs.

Her class was doing Stay Another Day by East 17 😭😭

She was also learning about the 80s as part of her history lessons in school.

wow that's amazing.

You think they would have waited 20 years though before putting it in a museum.

I mean it was like 3-4 years ago. It can't be history already surely.

@BlueEyedBogWitch did they give her a new hairdryer in exchange??

You can if you are talking about pre-Euro currency in Germany!

Oh blimey I had that phone - I really thought it was the coolest thing ever!

Just had a blast from the past of my late teenage years. Jeez east 17. I guess they are old now as well.

York castle museum? The kitchen there is like going back to your mate's house after school in the 80s. Just needs fishfingers, chips and beans followed by a two finger kit kat.

Brian Harvey - my sister's childhood crush for reasons unfathomable to me (give me Patrick Swayze any day) - is 51!

and some angel delight and a soda stream.

I'm pretty old, so I was most affronted when DD2 studied the Falklands War at A level! And I still give her grief for the time she took photos of my hands for A level photography as an image of mortality.😟

I still eat Angel Delight - butterscotch - and it's my business and no one else's.

And Findus crispy pancakes...

My gran used to take me to the museum when I was a kid (90s). They had a 60s section and I was fascinated by how old everything was (she was born mid 40s). I can imagine now how she felt 😅

I've noticed that as well. There were some exhibitions (on the ground floor, I think) called something like "Making the Modern World" and in the basement called "The Secret Life of the Home".

They definitely included things that I remember from my childhood.

They also had things from a bit later than my childhood. Like you, I remember seeing the first mobile phone I had, a Nokia 1011, in the "Information Age" gallery on the second floor.

When I was at uni I lived in halls. I remember a hall mate being rather disgusted that she'd gone into a shop to get angel delight, asked someone and he had no idea what she was on about!

oh findus crispy pancakes. I had forgotten about those.

Yum what time is dinner at yours then?

that's a grounding offence surely. Lock her in her room for a week.

They don't know how to live! Not then, not now!

Honestly when I was little, my mum decided what we had for breakfast on school days... but on the weekends, if we'd been good... we could choose. My sister ate her own body weight in Cocoa Pops/Ricicles/Sugar Puffs but I had a bowl of butterscotch Angel Delight (half on Saturday, half on Sunday and I am sure I remember my mum trying to shove some toast down me to equalise things a bit!)

Oh seriously, come over! Findus to start, then Vesta Chow Mein with the yellow crispy noodles that you have to deep fry and then the rest which is sachets boiled to various degrees.... then Angel Delight for me and Vienetta for everyone else. But the original - keep your mint to yourself!