Liberty Hall Museum Experience

A week ago with my transition to Kean class I went on a visit to Liberty Hall Museum; this museum has been made a historical landmark of Union in hopes to continue to inspire and people to turn dreams into reality. Liberty Hall Museum has been the home to a very influential governor of New Jersey and later bought into the Kean family. When touring the museum the architecture immediately caught my attention. The beautiful hardwood floors were the first thing that I noticed as they squeaked louder with each step; continuing into the house the chandeliers in each room caught to light instantly and I was in awe. Today I would never imagine having a tea room, and separate sections where the children stayed and played away from their parents, and the kitchen kept at the bottom of the house. What I enjoyed was listening to the guide about how the Kean’s spent their everyday life; servants would aspic food because most people by the age of 18 had already started to loose teeth and they would also even cut up the food for them because it was impolite to do so at the table. All of the information he said in relation to eating manners was a shock to me. Living my life today I couldn’t imagine conforming back to living like they did. …show more content…
There are fifty rooms inside the mansion and I would have loved to see a few more because after all, it is a two-hundred year house. Although, I did like that the kids section of the house was included in the tour. They brought us to the basement where most kids growing up or visiting the house would stay from infancy until a teenager. Kids would do things like puzzles and play with blocks and puzzles. That was very interesting to me because when you hear things about this time the children are not usually focused