Grassi museum pictures

[A. G. Maisey]

In the cellar but not quite rusting was the fate of the old Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences collection of weaponry.

They had a very, very good reference collection of early firearms, a solid collection of edged weapons, including keris and other Asian weaponry.

All this has now been hidden from sight:- it is no longer socially acceptable to display things that are used to kill people.

The paradigm for display in this museum, and I guess many other "enlightened" museums is contrary to the supposed objective, which is intended to demonstrate technological development.

Technology has its greatest leaps forward because of the human need and desire to kill other humans, and this happens on its most grand scale in times of war and other conflict.

Regrettably the people who dictate display criteria for the Power House and similar institutions seem to believe that by looking at the world through rose coloured glasses it will naturally follow that the world will become rose coloured --- and probably smell as one.