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museum tourist: WV Geological Survey Museum
Look, it’s the West Virginia Geological Survey Museum: It’s in a rest stop on interstate 68 just over the border when you’re driving west from Maryland. Ok, I don’t actually think this is the museum. I think it’s an advertisement … Continue reading
hyperbolic crochet coral reef update
Remember the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef? It’s an ongoing project – they’ll keep mounting exhibits of parts of it in different places. Right now there’s a show in Pasadena. But I heard good news recently about the Smithsonian Community Reef, … Continue reading
museum tourist: national aviary
The other day, my boyfriend and I were very amused by the billboards we saw along the road into Pittsburgh. “RAPTORS!” proclaimed one. “PENGUINS!” said another. These billboards were advertising the National Aviary, which happened to be near our hotel, … Continue reading
museum tourist: mayflower II & plimoth plantation
Here’s my conclusion after visiting the Mayflower II and Plimoth Plantation: Living history is not an efficient way to get information across. I started my exploration of the big tourist attraction in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with the Mayflower II. It’s a … Continue reading
museum tourist: Miraflores Locks, model edition
The visitors’ center at the Miraflores Locks, as previously mentioned, is full of models of ships and various kinds of train equipment. Both historic models, from the early days of the canal 100 years ago, and modern models. I love … Continue reading
museum tourist: Miraflores Visitor Center
Starting at the Pacific, ships in the Panama Canal go into the Miraflores locks, then the Pedro Miguel locks. That gets them up to the level of most of the canal. On the Caribbean side, they go down through the … Continue reading
museum tourist: Museo del Canal Interoceánico de Panamá
Here’s a weird fact. The “Panama Canal Museum” is in Seminole, Florida, and it’s just about the U.S. involvement in the canal. The museum in Panama City is the “Museo del Canal Interoceánico de Panamá.” That is something along the … Continue reading
museum tourist: Museum of Communism, Prague
Of course, Prague has lots of museums that aren’t natural history museums. We also stopped in on the Museum of Communism. I had been led to believe by the guidebook that this would be interesting. It has great posters all … Continue reading
museum tourist: national museum, prague (cont.)
The National Museum in Prague had a particularly large number of trilobites. I gather the Czech Republic is rich in them – the rocks that are at the surface there must be from an era when trilobites ruled the seas. … Continue reading
museum tourist: national museum, prague
Cases and cases of minerals. Stuffed animal skins. Grand staircases. This, my friends, is what a natural history museum should be. It’s on a hill at the end of Wenceslas Square in Prague, in the Czech Republic, and I was … Continue reading