>>5920316>>5925888One other weird memory I have about the British Museum: on a separate occasion when I was attending some other exhibition (not the romantic overture here lol
>>5925888 ) I walked past this random exhibit, it looked like a rusted metal tree
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_Life_(Kester)What it actually was: some sort of artist installation made up of salvaged and decommissioned rusted African AK47 rifles. It was apparently a commemoration of the civil war in Mozambique 1977-92 (I knew nothing about this country) so I was extremely curious, I rushed up to this ASSAULT RIFLE GUN TREE and scrutinised the tiny text printed on the curator artwork explanation white placard below.
I don't remember it exactly but I recall the text was written in this very solemn tone, about how this artwork symbolised the end of the massacres and child soldiers in the Mozambique war, they wanted to turn all the remaining weapons into this tree sculpture to symbolise peace and I distinctively remember the placard saying something like this GUN TREE was intended to remind future generations that war should never again ravage Mozambique for as long as it was kept there. And I found this hilarious, because it was on display at the British Museum in London. This artifact was probably donated? (on loan?) not looted like the Escape From Tarkov extraction shooter but I just found it funny how it was not in Mozambique as a community sculpture or reminder, but in the British Museum (where most people probably just walk past this awkward ugly rusted tree without even noticing its relevance)
This exhibition is also the inspiration and reason why many of my game settings and quests feature insane druid tree cultists who demand the sacrifice of weapons and armaments before their bloodthirsty horrific pagan tree gods, hehe
