Met trip

                In the exhibit there were artifacts almost everywhere you looked as well in the corners above your head. As I moved through the exhibits I noticed each room had a quote to look up at and read. I recall one basically said that no matter how many photos were taken and no matter what books or evidence was recorded from the war, no body will ever know the true harsh realities of that war unless you were living in those times. I found this to be pretty interesting and scary at the same time because it makes me wonder what else may have went on that the public doesn’t know of.  One artifact that caught my attention most out of all, were one of the last ones which was the “100,000 dollar reward for the murderer of Lincoln” poster. The poster had 3 suspects , John wilkes booth, john Surratt, and david herold. Within 24 hours of Lincolns assassination, the secret service went to work by posting these poster. I found this interesting because I did not think the Secret Service was around that far back. One of my favorite areas of the exhibition were the medicine exhibition. Here they had many photos and artifacts of those injured in battle and how they were tooken care of, as well as amputations and more. There was a photo of a young man with his elbow blown off, and the caption next to the photo basically reads that the man was 20 years old and admitted to Harewood Hospital April 2^nd 1865 wounded by a minie ball gunshot in the right forearm and elbow.” The bullet entered at anterior surface, upper third, making its exit from inner aspect of elbow joint, facturing condyle of humerus in its course.”

The trip to the MET to observe the civil war exhibit was a new experience for me. Ive been to the MET before however the space and atmosphere within the civil war exhibit was different than that of any other exhibition in the entire museum. It was extremely quiet, the walls were painted a dull color, mostly greys and whites, and you got this sorta sad vibe once you stepped in. I noticed the vast majority of people there were elders, though there were some younger crowds. The people in the exhibit seemed to be very knowledgable on the artifacts in the exhibit as I heard them giving facts as I walked past them.