Personal Narrative: My Trip To The Penn Museum

Although I have never really enjoyed museums, especially historical ones, but the trip to the Penn Museum was much different than most. Heading into the museum, I certainly did not have an open mind. I was hoping just to snap pictures of the seven artifacts I need and get out of there. I am grateful that my dad went with me and did not allow me to do just that. Even though my father is not a big historical guy and never really had any interest in school, I was quite surprised to see him taking his time reading and going through each artifact. We first went in and I saw one of my classmates just as he was finishing. I talked to him a bit but then we went down the stairs to the one and only exhibit/artifact there. Surprisingly enough, it was
We then move on to the Japan exhibit. Something right as I walked in that caught my eye was the Life-Size Painted and Lacquered Figure of a Seated Patriarch or Monk. I read the description of it and was pleased to find out it had to do with Zen Buddhism. Although we did not touch a lot on Monks this year, I still did have a bit of general knowledge about them so I decided to use it as one of my artifacts. After that, we moved onto Egypt. Even though there were many artifacts involving mummies and such, I decided to go down the road of Gods. There was a huge artifact called The Goddess Sekhmet and after reading about it, I added it to my list. There was a lot to take in while browsing through the Egyptian exhibit but I did learn a lot. After touring through Egypt, we went downstairs to visit North America and Africa. I decided against doing an artifact from the exhibit of North America. Instead I did two artifacts from two different exhibits in Africa. One artifact was from Africa, and the other was from the evolution of humans. They are technically two different exhibits so I figure it is