Page 6 | I was at a museum today and now I feel really old

cheekybtch · 12/10/2025 09:50

That's pretty impressive for a 2-year-old to do, though. But also, get over it. People get old.

mateysmum · 12/10/2025 10:11

I officially felt old last week. I don't live in London but last week I had to travel on the Jubilee line in rush hour. It was standing room only and being only 5' 1" I struggle to reach the grab rail even at full stretch but I cope. Then a lovely young man offered me the 'special' seat that you give up for people who need it.
On the one hand I was grateful but on the other I felt VERY old. I like to think he did it because of my size not my age, but I fear I am deluding myself. I was born in the early 60s.
Thinking about how time 'shrinks' as we get older, when I was a little girl, I knew people who had fought in WW1, after all in the 60's they would only be in their late 60s/early 70s. I was particularly fascinated by one chap who had a false hand because he had lost his hand in WW1.
Two of my grandparents were born in the 19th century - that's two centuries ago! Yikes!

zingally · 12/10/2025 10:24

Not that long ago, I saw my mums "jelly dish" in a museum!

BadWoIf · 12/10/2025 10:28

zingally · 12/10/2025 10:24

Not that long ago, I saw my mums "jelly dish" in a museum!

Was it a rabbit-shaped one? That's what my mum had when I was a child and I saw a similar one in a museum a few years ago.

BadWoIf · 12/10/2025 10:30

DrCoconut · 09/10/2025 19:56

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.

I was wondering if it was York Castle museum too! Fabulous place. Which museum was it @NiceSkinHereICome ?

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NiceSkinHereICome · 12/10/2025 10:32

BadWoIf · 12/10/2025 10:30

I was wondering if it was York Castle museum too! Fabulous place. Which museum was it @NiceSkinHereICome ?

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no it was up in east scotland in a small town.

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Daleksatemyshed · 12/10/2025 10:32

@zingally was it the bunny shaped one, I loved those. My DP was in the pub and loaded a film into an old fashioned camera, noticed the family on the next table had gone very quiet, their DC were fascinated, they'd never seen anyone do anything like it.

BunnyLake · 12/10/2025 10:42

Treeleaf11 · 09/10/2025 19:27

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.

Crikey. I remember the Thatcher years like yesterday (how can anyone forget) and now she’s A level history 😵‍💫

I’m a child of the sixties so there’s now an awful lot of my memories that get featured on Youtube channels called Things from the past you never see anymore or Food from the past you never eat anymore. 😁

zingally · 12/10/2025 10:53

BadWoIf · 12/10/2025 10:28

Was it a rabbit-shaped one? That's what my mum had when I was a child and I saw a similar one in a museum a few years ago.

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No, but I know the one you mean! My auntie had that one!

My mums is an oval-shaped dish. Probably meant for pies, but has just always been our jelly dish! A bit of research tells me it's Royal Worcester, so probably a wedding present in 1974!

claudiawinklemansfringetrimmer · 12/10/2025 10:59

My husband and I spotted a copy of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater for the PlayStation in the toy section of a museum not that long ago… I’m only 32, we were both outraged 😂

DrCoconut · 12/10/2025 11:00

mateysmum · 12/10/2025 10:11

I officially felt old last week. I don't live in London but last week I had to travel on the Jubilee line in rush hour. It was standing room only and being only 5' 1" I struggle to reach the grab rail even at full stretch but I cope. Then a lovely young man offered me the 'special' seat that you give up for people who need it.
On the one hand I was grateful but on the other I felt VERY old. I like to think he did it because of my size not my age, but I fear I am deluding myself. I was born in the early 60s.
Thinking about how time 'shrinks' as we get older, when I was a little girl, I knew people who had fought in WW1, after all in the 60's they would only be in their late 60s/early 70s. I was particularly fascinated by one chap who had a false hand because he had lost his hand in WW1.
Two of my grandparents were born in the 19th century - that's two centuries ago! Yikes!

My grandad was born in 1885. I remember seeing one of those photos that appear every now and then with multiple generations of a family who all had kids young and 3x great grandma is still alive. On my dad's side my 3x great grandparents were born in about 1800! Oh and there's a book in the local kids' library about growing up in the 80s. Like you used to get them about WW2 or maybe the 50s or 60s. I wonder if those ones were as atypical of the average person's life as the 80s one is?

Ormally · 12/10/2025 11:06

My moment came when DD had a lot of homework and one piece was to research tectonic plates and to describe 3 ways that their existence is evident on the Earth. I remembered the early 90s lesson/s I'd had on this quite well and offered to speed things up by giving her 3 to look up.

Current educational websites and online sources then said that one of my ways was a theory that has now been debunked!

bellocchild · 12/10/2025 15:32

GrumpySparkler · 09/10/2025 19:33

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>.

A radio alarm clock is still perfectly normal on a bedside chest, surely? Not so much a Teasmade though...

Grammarnut · 12/10/2025 17:20

Timeforatincture · 09/10/2025 19:58

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.😟

Well, the Falklands War is really current affairs since participants are still around, but the issue is settled (unlike Palestine v Israel, which also ends up in the history curriculum).

Bec1968 · 12/10/2025 17:58

Im a teaching assistant & took my P6 kids to museum & there was a Nokia phone & i asked them what they thought it was, and they said a walkie talkie 🤣 they also didnt have a clue about the type writer either.

Or the twin tub 🤣🤣🤣🤣

tommyhoundmum · 12/10/2025 19:51

NiceSkinHereICome · 09/10/2025 19:24

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 saw this on facebook

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 12/10/2025 20:02

Arlanymor · 09/10/2025 19:31

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

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Just shows how desperate and cash strapped they are to have new exhibitions.The New Post Modern.
Not to mention lack of ideas and creativity.

Sounds like a range of junk of you could easily find in a range of any local Charity shops.

I have a couple of oldish Pyrex dishes circa 1990, they would be welcome to.

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 12/10/2025 20:10

Elisheva · 09/10/2025 19:38

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.

I loved that programme at school when the TV got wheeled in on the trolley.❤️😁

Arlanymor · 12/10/2025 20:14

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 12/10/2025 20:02

Just shows how desperate and cash strapped they are to have new exhibitions.The New Post Modern.
Not to mention lack of ideas and creativity.

Sounds like a range of junk of you could easily find in a range of any local Charity shops.

I have a couple of oldish Pyrex dishes circa 1990, they would be welcome to.

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Not sure why you quoted me in your misery post. I was being light hearted about OP not being a relic…

LuluG76 · 12/10/2025 20:26

In our local museum there is poster for the club night that I used to go to every week in the 90's. All preserved in perspex. I cried inside when I saw it.

MaloryJones · 12/10/2025 20:45

I understand

I am 60 so was used to using Typewriters, Switchboards and Telex machines.
In c1996 or so I was with my then DH and our two DCs at a former Secret Bunker in Essex.
Imagine my horror when I saw a Monarch Keyboard (like I was used to using only in the 80s mind you) and a Telex machine in the museum there.
The same happened when I spotted a packet of Space Dust in the wonderful Pollock's Toy Museum in London .

Shotokan101 · 12/10/2025 20:58

NiceSkinHereICome · 09/10/2025 19:24

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.

Just face up to it, you are old..... 🤣

Dunnowhatimat · 12/10/2025 22:06

I think it's moreso that technology etc has come on leaps and bounds in the last 20 years or so. It was a long(ish) time between home and mobile phones, but virtually no time between mobile and smart phones for example.

DownyEmerald · 13/10/2025 08:20

Few years ago went to NT Lacock Abbey and they had an exhibit of film photography equipment - the reels you put film on to develop them, developing/stop trays, darkroom clock, enlargers. All stuff I used for my first job.

Very handy to show DD. I loved a darkroom, but had no idea then that its days were numbered.

YYURYYUCICYYUR4ME · 13/10/2025 09:09

I tend to see some museums now as archives. They hold, show, record the best of the UK, so don't so much feel old but grateful we lived with some great 'stuff'! Not sure much lately will make the grade!