6 October 2010

Today, after my presentation on the humongous corporation we know as Nestle, my marketing class went to a little museum called The Museum of Brands. It's in Notting Hill (which is underrated in my opinion) a few blocks from the tube tucked away on a little Mews. When we first got there the first thing we learned from our professor was the reasoning for there not being any signage indicating where the location of the museum was. She told us because it was set on a mews, which is a private road that they are technically not allowed to put up signs toward the mews. So it's kind of a hidden gem of London! (As timeout.com says)

It was really fascinating, actually. It was segregated by decade, which i just love. My favorite was the 20's because not only did they have food products, but also clothing and signs from that period. It was really interesting to see the old coloring of all the products and the advertisement slogans that were placed on their packaging. One thing that I found most intriguing was on a cigarette advertisement and it had written on script on the bottom "Will not affect your throat." Hmmm.

After they broke it down into decades they had sort of a little evolution area where they put the packages in order from oldest to the modern day version of it. A lot of the products I didn't recognize because they were British but a few I did were Pepsi, Coke, Roses, Nestle chocolate milk (yum!) and snickers. I loved the evolution part the most! And then after that they had a "sweet room" where it was all the old packaging of candy products. Not going to lie it made me want some candy !

Overall, it was a really interesting museum. It's such a different experience having field trips instead of class time, so that it's not all lecture but going out in London and actually seeing what we're learning about for ourselves. And they pay for it, too! Not a bad perk.

Tonight might be another quiet night in. I didn't post yesterday because I unfortunately finally caught the bug that was flying through our flat. Except now i'm the only one sick because everyone else had it at the same time. Nothing fun, just your typical closed throat feeling, stuffy nose, achy body. I figured I might as well rest up so that I can fully enjoy Wales! (http://www.preseliventure.co.uk/outdoor-activities/coasteering/) That's the website of what we're doing- and the company we're doing it through. Can't wait!!