Have you been to a museum lately?

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They're the first thing that I check out whenever I travel, roughly in the order art > ancient history > natural history > national history > naval fucking history.

What museum have you visited lately? Learn or see anything that fascinated you? Bored you to death? Any memorable visits, anything to recommend?

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Weirdly enough, yes! Normally I'm not super into museums (or history in general), but recently I've shown an interest in going to a few and have found them really interesting.
The first was in the mining town over and it was about their history, how the town came to be and for what purpose, some of the wildlife and localized area around them, the mining operations with local folk and immigrants, and even some stuff about worker revolution. Very neat.
The next was an air force museum in the other side of town near the base, and that was also really cool. Tons of WW1 and WW2 history, stuff in-between, advances in tech, lots of different insights in various people and squadrons and what they used in the wars, and even some stuff in the modern day. Also really cool, but a loooot of info to take in. They even had some jets on display at an airpark that you could walk through and take a look at, which was cool as well. I'm not much into military stuff, but it was still interesting to see all of this and consider how important all of it was to the outcome of history.
I plan on going to some more museums of different kinds in the coming months
 
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The boring one
> naval fucking history.
WTF? "Naval fucking history" are the museums I beeline towards wherever I am. I now hate you with a passion and will make sure that you walk the plank first if I ever capture your crew. And I will. You won't escape me : oceans are rising.

Now, the most recent museum I visited was the Leman museum in Nyon and it was great, because the Leman is great, and because the Piccard are insane (a floor is dedicated to this family and their exploration vehicles). And because the Leman is insane aswell.

The most impressive museum, was, surprisingly, the Chaplin Museum in Vevey. Went with zero expectation, was completely stunned. The one place to see in Switzerland, I say.

My most beloved museum is the Cinema and Miniatures museum, in Lyon. Two parts. One is cinema props and is awesome on many levels. The other is just about miniatures, the art of tiny things, and includes a lot of impressively detailed dioramas made for the sake of it (dioramas made for movie scenes provide the missing link between the museum's two themes). I re-visit it roughly every two years.

The coolest museum was the MEN, the Neuchâtel Ethnography Museum, but I haven't gone back for a while, and its greatness came from its clevel, inventive and thought-provoking temporary exhibitions, colliding cultures from all over the world. But these temporary exhibitions are relatively blink-and-miss, so, sadly impossible to share when they're over.

A very precious one to me is the SS Arthur M. Huddell, renamed Hellas Liberty when it was made a floating museum in Piraeus. It's one of the three last remaining Liberty Ships, and just for that is worth visiting. But its website has been turned into a casino advertisement because, well, Greece. 🙄
 
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Yes. I don't really have any interest in museums, but my gf likes them so she occasionally drags me to one. Most recent was the St. Agnes museum, which is a very small museum in an old repurposed church in St. Agnes. It's dedicated to the history of St. Agnes and the surrounding area. So if you're into the history of very small Cornish towns then pay it a visit. It has a very large lobster, a turtle (both dead) and much more besides.
 
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Not for years and years. When I was reading Jurassic Park I kind of got the inclination to go back and see the Tyrrell Museum which I haven't been to since I was in elementary school and my memories of it are extremely vague. But I don't like traveling much so I might not get there for a long time.
 

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I don’t think I’ve been to a museum in a few years. And even then it wasn’t exactly a famous one. On the other hand last I looked Twitter was deciding that museums were just the trophy cases of imperialist powers to show off their plunder or some fucking thing.
 

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Unfortunately it seems that the Easter Island museum doesn't have a sheep display. Ah well.
 

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Most recently was a trip to KC and a look at the National WW1 Museum and Memorial and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Both are incredible. Before that, maybe the Cosmosphere Space Museum, I generally go there once every few years or so. Its not far from where I grew up. The one around here I haven't gone to yet and need to... a trip to the state capitol to visit the official Evel Knievel Museum. I'm very curious to find out exactly why the official Evel Knievel Museum is in of all places... Topeka Kansas?
 
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Not lately, other than our local one for an interesting exhibit on poison (not the band). But a couple standouts I recall as a kid -

Chicago Field Museum. Dinosaurs were the big draw to me back then out of the second grade, but far from the only point of interest. King Tut’s tomb was another exhibit I think was new at the time. Only one I’ve been to in the Windy City as I haven’t gotten over there much as an adult, but it’s a great place for museums in general. Like four dozen of them, detailing everything from surgical science to writers to medieval torture.

Another would be the Henry Ford Museum of Dearborn, MI. Mostly comprised of human history items and American innovations. I’ve been there a few times but the biggest draw for me as a kid was the chair Lincoln got shot in. Fun fact, the stain often assumed to be blood is actually just from hair greases and oils used by the many occupants over its years of use. There were two blood samples take from it, but IIRC evidence of either being Abe’s was inconclusive as his DNA is of course not too easily obtainable. Latest visit I got more appreciation from stuff like the Wright Bros. bike shop and Edison’s laboratory in the Greenfield Village portion. Can easily spend a full day there between the two sections. Much of it is like stepping into an elaborate, expansive time capsule of different eras.
 
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