Do You Take Advantage of Museums In Your Area?

[dilettante]

I recently connected with a friend from 6th through 12th grade who I haven't seen since my second year of college. We started talking about how much time we spent in the local public museum, which didn't cost anything for students back then.

We remembered the mummies in the Egypt exhibit, the Hall of the Pleistocene with its life-size dioramas of cave men and extinct large mammals and saber-toothed tigers, large wolves, etc. Then there was the eerie exhibit of human and animal fetuses at various development stage in jars. And a large geology exhibit with tons of rock samples and even display of precious and semi-precious gems. Lots of cultural exhibits and local pioneer history exhibits.

There was always a big whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling of the main hall:

Meet Finny. - Grand Rapids Public Museum

And on and on, and it is still going:

I've spent a lot of time in other museums as well. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago was always a treat. Massive and so much to see and learn about. I could list others like our State History Museum.


These seem like great places to revisit. Is anyone else making them a recurring event? I don't think I've gone to a museum or adjacent planetarium since before covid lockdowns.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

There was one small museum in my town and I've been there a couple of times. Once was to see the exhibits, the other was for a reception of some sort. When my son was young, I took him to the Museum of Natural History in New York City. It's huge and we made our way through but by the time we were going to go to the planetarium section, I'd gotten a splitting headache. I didn't drive there so we had to leave so we could bus it home. The city is supposed to be building another museum. Don't know when that will be but perhaps I'll take the time to visit when it's done.

 

[jujube]

We have a wonderful museum in the area that has one of the biggest (or maybe THE biggest) Tiffany collections in the world.

It's very reasonably priced and often free ( I LOVE free). It's very quiet, darkish, and cool in there and I find my soul's feathers smoothed down as I proceed from room to room soaking in the beauty of the stained glass, especially the chapel.

I've taken all the Littles there, though fearing that they'd be bored or too active for the place. Nope, they were awed and stunned into good behavior. Even the youngest, at 3, was subdued and asked questions.

There's something about that place that draws me back again and again.