Last night, the Ashmolean Museum put on Egyptomania, a celebration of the 1920s discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and craze for all things Egyptian. I met up with some SJC friends and we spent the night roaming around the Ashmolean after hours. People were asked to come in Britain-in-Egypt '20s and '30s costumes. Every room had a different event, from live jazz bands and Charleston and Lindy-Hop dancing to reenactments of 1890s-1930s Egyptian-themed British plays to an old-fashioned (Victorian lantern) slideshow of antique photographs of archeological digs. Plus cocktails, of course.
If you haven't tried it, find an opportunity to wander around a museum at night. It's a completely different experience, a much better one, and definitely a little eerie. Less eerie once the bands started jamming and people began showing up in flapper dresses. The whole thing made for a fantastic Halloween.
Photo next to one of the exhibits! In costume, too. Wait, is that my sub-fusc ribbon repurposed? Why, yes it is. Waste not, want not.
Tonight we're having a decidedly less cultured Halloween party in college. There will be plenty of normal sophomoric shenanigans, rest assured.
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