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Macau Maritime Museum By Sean Fifer, Grade 6 After March 5, 1998 visit The Macau Maritime Museum is one of the most fascinating museums I have ever been to. In most museums you just stare at an exhibit and in general most people will go to a static museum where there is nothing to do. The Maritime Museum in Macau on the other hand is a museum with many gadgets and fancy buttons that people can play with, so it makes the museum more interesting and at the same time tells you something about the exhibit that you are looking at. The Maritime Museum has a lot of information about different Macanese boats, so if you are a boat lover this is the place for you. There are two shows or short movies about the life in Macau many years before our time. But there are more than boats to see. There are also things about agricultural and trading businesses. As you look about the floors you will find colorful paintings about various subjects. Something that is very unique which is located on the bottom floor is a pillar made out of a boat mast from a Macanese boat. There is a little room on this floor which has things that you can purchase, so you can do a bit of shopping. The ancient Macanese were a lot like the Chinese in two story houses that are quite small. The farmers would live in these sorts of houses. However, fishing was the most important economy of this culture. They would catch the fish and either sell them or eat them. Another essential part of the Macanese way of living was the tools used to make several different objects such as boats, houses and a lot of things that tools are used for today. The boats that people used were not only poor shaped fishing boats; they were also very big junks that people of higher wealth would use. Clothing for the people followed the same pattern. If you were rich you would have many nice silk clothes but if you were poor you would have rags as your clothes. The Macanese also made beautiful jars for serving tea so it is a lot like the Chinese. If I tell you more details there would be no point for you to go to Macau yourself, so all I’m going to say is get on over to the Maritime Museum in Macau!!