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The plants in the ceiling range from the common to the exotic, a seemingly random assortment which perhaps reflects the nature of the museum' s own herbarium collection. But for Sandy, the choice was much more deliberate. For her, this beautiful ceiling is here for more than mere decoration. I think their plants to sort of show what made the British Empire great. It was built at the absolute height of its powers as a kind of colonial and top cheese nation. Things like cotton, tobacco, tea, all those plants which were grown in the colonies and then sold on and really did make the empire. I love the ceiling, but you get a sort of zero one reaction. People either say, " Oh, yes, it' s amazing, it' s absolutely incredible," or people say, " What ceiling?" And so you either know it' s there and think it' s marvellous, or you haven' t, you know, crane your neck back like that and look. It' s one of those things that I felt was one of the hidden secrets of the museum. Odd to think that a hidden secret is something that' s sort of the entire top of the museum, but it is hidden in a sort of ways, " who looks up?" |
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wū dǐng shàng jì yǒu xún cháng zhí zhū, yě yǒu yì guó qí pā. zhè zhǒng kàn sì suí yì de zǔ hé, què yǔ bó wù guǎn juàn zhì hào fán de zhí wù cáng pǐn àn hé. dàn zài shān dí kàn lái, zhè bèi hòu què dà yǒu shēn yì. duì tā lái shuō, měi lì de tiān huā bǎn, yì yì yuǎn dà yú zhuāng shì. wǒ rèn wéi zhèi xiē zhí wù, yǐn shè chū dà yīng dì guó zhī wěi dà. tā jiàn zhù yú dì guó quán lì de diān fēng, nà shí yīng guó shì gè qiáng dà de zhí mín guó jiā, xiàng mián huā, yān cǎo, chá yè. zhèi xiē shēng cháng yú zhí mín dì de zhí wù, tōng guò mào yì lái dào dì guó, wèi dì guó jué qǐ tuī bō zhù lán. wǒ ài jí le zhè gè wū dǐng, bù guò rén men de fǎn yìng shì liǎng zhǒng jí duān. tā men yào me shuō " wa"," zhè gè tài bù kě sī yì le, tā fēi cháng zhèn hàn". yào me wèn, shén me wū dǐng. suǒ yǐ, tā men huò shì zhī dào zài nà, jué de zhuàng lì fēi fán, huò shì cóng wèi zhù yì dào, cóng wèi tái qǐ tóu, kàn kàn tiān huā bǎn. wǒ jué de, zhè shì bó wù guǎn yǐn cáng mì mì zhī yī, xiǎng xiǎng yě tǐng qí guài, jū rán cáng zài zhěng gè bó wù guǎn de wū dǐng shàng, dàn zhè cáng de hěn hǎo, shéi zhī dào yào tái tóu ne. |