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I'd liked to visit the Guggenheim museum and the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. The latter has a nice dinosaur display and other seasonal events. IIRC some of the other museums are free or encourage you to give a donation by the entrance. Hmm--the NY Public Library has some displays on the lower level of some old books and famous relics.
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Three personal favorites: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA - Primarily concerned with the China trade, whaling, etc, covers Salem's past as America's main tradeport with the Far East. Pretty much a witch-free zone. Awesome collection of 19th-century Polynesian folk art and weapons, and an entire authentic Chinese house. Air Force Museum, Dayton OH - Pretty much every American military aircraft you can think of. Alexander Graham Bell Museum, Baddeck NS Canada - Fascinating archive of a multitalented guy.
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BlueBayou posted:SF doesnt have a museum of natural history ..... The California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park consists of an aquarium, a planetarium, and the Kimball Natural History Museum. Drewski fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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Nov 13, 2014 17:26
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The family and I visited the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla this summer and it was awesome. It was a Blue Angels practice day so it was super busy, but it was a very nice (and free!) museum to visit. We were already at the beach nearby for a week, so we made a little half day trip out of it. The Blue Angels were awesome, and even the kids liked the museum.
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City Museum in St. Louis is some world class weird poo poo. It is a 10 story former shoe factory converted into an enormous salvaged materials, rebar and rough-finish concrete climbing/sliding gym mosaic art project built out of dragline cranes, scrapped jets, fire engines, industrial presses, decorative brick cornices, and twinkie-baking trays, with secret passages, helical slides that go down the central air shaft from the roof to the subbasement, a life-sized concrete right whale that you can climb in the mouth and out the rear end of, aquariums, sloths, old mechanical pinball machines, a ferris wheel on the roof, and three bars. And it is open till midnight on weekends. It is comprehensively bonkers, everybody I've ever taken there has said "This is insane, how is it legal". St. Louis also has an excellent free art museum, an excellent free history museum, an excellent free zoo, and a pretty good for free science museum in Forest Park. And there is an Arch, which is more impressive in person. The Science and Industry in Chicago has had a major facelift in the last few years, and is pretty strong now days. The Sackler-Freer gallery in DC is nice. It is one Robber Baron's collection of east asian art, part of the Smithsonian on the mall, and it is always empty. The collection is great, but the greatest part is that it is dead empty. After spending a few hours with the sharp-elbowed school groups at Natural History, or Air and Space, it is awesome to chill out, and not see another human being besides the 80 year old docents for a bit. Slo-Tek fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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Nov 13, 2014 19:27
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The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh are all very good. I'm behind some wacky work firewall right now so I can't get the actual sites to load, just wikipedia. Dinosaurs, son. Natural History Museum posted:Carnegie Museum of Natural History, located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, was founded by the Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896. It maintains an international reputation for research and is ranked among the top five natural history museums in the United States.[1] The submarine they mention is actually in the river and you can go in and check it out. Carnegie Science Center posted:The Carnegie Science Center, located in the Chateau[1] neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, opened in 1991.[2] Hey you know that Campbell's soup picture guy. There is some very weird poo poo there, because Warhol. Andy Warhol Museum posted:The Andy Warhol Museum is located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the largest museum in the country dedicated to a single artist.[2] The museum holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives from the Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol. If you're into that kind of thing... Art Museum posted:The Carnegie Museum of Art, located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an art museum founded in 1895 by the Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie.[1] The museum holds a distinguished collection of contemporary art, including film and video works. SLOSifl fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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Even if you don't have kids, I was fascinated by the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. It's got a giant collection of vintage board and video games, many of them playable, and basically chronicles the history of toys and play in just about every context. If you do have kids, this place is a no-brainer. There's a pretty good re-creation of Sesame Street, books everywhere (the whole museum operates as a library), and a bunch of rotating exhibits. When I was there, there was a huge thing about the history of comics. quote:The Strong’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games® (ICHEG) collects, studies, and interprets video games, other electronic games, and related materials and the ways in which electronic games are changing how people play, learn, and connect with each other, including across boundaries of culture and geography. This was one of the coolest things I've seen in any museum, and my daughter had a blast in this area. It's a large, elaborate play grocery store: quote:At The Strong’s Wegmans Super Kids Market exhibit, kids run the store! Cruise the aisles and fill a grocery cart with colorful products that look amazingly real. Visit the toddler organic farm, Market Café, and a variety of other highly interactive store environments that offer dramatic role-playing opportunities and encourage healthy eating habits.
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If you were ever planning a trip to NYC I would second other peoples suggestions of the MET and AMNH. Also if you particularly like paintings (european artists especially) then the Frick Collection is an absolute must. It's fairly small compared to other museums in the city but but their collection is fantastic.
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The Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, CT is awesome. Also the Boston Science Museum is great.
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Bip Roberts posted:Museum of Jurassic Technology. Even knowing exactly what I was getting into when I went to that museum, while I was walking through it, I just sorta thought "This place kinda sucks" and it didn't really CLICK for me. Then I watched a David Lynch movie a few days later and thought "MY GOD IT'S GENIUS" Also, don't forget the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Cleveland itself is loving terrible, so you should visit it while like, on a roadtrip to not-Cleveland. The museum is also more of a "collection of artifacts from rock artists", but you can see really sweet poo poo like the outfits that The Beatles wore on the Sgt Pepper's cover, Brian Wilson's original hand written lyrics to God Only Knows, and Bootsy Collins' funkatastic outfit and bass guitar 
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SLOSifl posted:The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh are all very good. I'm behind some wacky work firewall right now so I can't get the actual sites to load, just wikipedia. When I was in college I lived right down the street from the Carnegie Art and Natural History museums (which are actually in the same building), and a good friend of mine worked there as a guard. He was a huge pothead so I'd meet up with him to smoke and then just wander all over the museum for a couple hours, especially the Art half. I must have explored some part of it or another once a week for a couple years. It was an amazing resource.
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Slo-Tek just convinced me that there is a reason to go to st Louis. Can't wait.
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The two big art museums in Minnesota were already mentioned on the last page, but if history's your thing, the Minnesota History Center is pretty cool too. They have an amazing archive and they currently have an exhibit that showcases old toys from the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
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Nov 16, 2014 19:09
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On the aerospace route, if you're in the PNW, Museum of Flight just south of Seattle is a stunning collection that's probably the best in the region. Art museums in Seattle proper are pretty legit as well, though I would say it's not worth a dedicated trip out to the PNW for just these few when you can drive/road-trip between cities on the East Coast.
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skipdogg posted:The family and I visited the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla this summer and it was awesome. It was a Blue Angels practice day so it was super busy, but it was a very nice (and free!) museum to visit. We were already at the beach nearby for a week, so we made a little half day trip out of it. The Blue Angels were awesome, and even the kids liked the museum. I highly recommend this one too. I didn't think I was going to enjoy it much the first time there, I enjoy flying but I'm not a plane jock; plus I was a kid and wanted to get the gently caress out of there and back on the road to disney world. But then my family spent the whole day there, all of us utterly engrossed. It's an extremely well set up museum and has a ton of awesome exhibits. It's interesting not only because of the various planes there, military and civilian, but also because it tries to give you a taste of what these various time periods in naval aviation were like. It's inside of a military base however so have all your poo poo in order before you get there. Most Americans aren't used to dealing with military checkpoints. These days you'll probably get ID'd going in. There will be an extremely polite guard with a large gun. Don't be an idiot and everything will be fine.
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