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== Road Trip Material; Real Places We Like == | == Road Trip Material; Real Places We Like == | ||
| − | [http://dc.about.com/od/smithsonianmuseums/p/AnacostiaMuseum.htm The '''Anacostia Museum''' focuses on the families and neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. and the | + | [http://dc.about.com/od/smithsonianmuseums/p/AnacostiaMuseum.htm The '''Anacostia Museum''' focuses on the families and neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. and the history and culture of African Americans nationwide.] |
| − | [http://www.barnum-museum.org/ ''' | + | [http://www.barnum-museum.org/ The '''Barnum Museum of Natural History''' in Bridgeport, Connecticut:Mother Nature's world - P.T. Barnum-style!.] |
| − | [http://ucmmuseum.com/ | + | [http://ucmmuseum.com/ The '''UCM Museum''' in Abbita Springs, Louisiana, offers you an unforgettable time viewing dioramas of "Aliens Landing at Mardi Gras!"] |
| − | == Museumology; Other Museums and | + | == Museumology; Other Museums and Museums-about-Museums == |
| − | [http://www.cityreliquary.org/ ''' | + | [http://www.cityreliquary.org/ The '''City Reliquary''' in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is one of our favorite ''Civic Organizations,'' with a new-old perspective on New York City.] |
| − | [http://www.coneyisland.com/museum.shtml ''' | + | [http://www.coneyisland.com/museum.shtml The '''Coney Island Museum''' is the only museum in the world dedicated to interpreting and preserving the history of '''Coney Island.'''] |
| − | [http://www.creationmuseum.org/ ''' | + | [http://www.creationmuseum.org/ The '''Creation Museum''' in Cincinnati is a Biblical science museum—O My!.] |
| − | [http://mjt.org/ ''' | + | [http://mjt.org/ The '''Museum of Jurassic Technology''' in Culver City, California, as well as cultivating "a chain of flowers to guide us," curates and disperses to the public relics from the Lower Jurassic Era, especially those demonstrating "curious technological qualities." After all, ''No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again...''] |
| − | [http://www.muttermuseum.org/ | + | [http://www.muttermuseum.org/ The '''Mütter Museum''' is the museum of the College of Surgeons in Philadelphia, memorializing Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins," and the "Soap Lady." And who doesn't love the Bunkers and the Soap Lady?!] |
| − | [http://www.palaceofwonders.com/home.html | + | [http://www.palaceofwonders.com/home.html The '''Palace of Wonders''' in Washington, D. C. Where will you ever see another one like it?] |
| − | [http://www.reanimationlibrary.org ''' | + | [http://www.reanimationlibrary.org The '''Reanimation Library''' in Brooklyn is a specialized repository for books that have fallen out of mainstream circulation but take on new life as resource material for various cultural archeologists.] |
== Natural Historical Collections == | == Natural Historical Collections == | ||
Revision as of 15:32, 2 August 2008
A selection of our colleagues demonstrate a fascination with us looking at objects, and with objects looking at us, which is why we list them (below):
Contents
Road Trip Material; Real Places We Like
Museumology; Other Museums and Museums-about-Museums
The Creation Museum in Cincinnati is a Biblical science museum—O My!.
The Palace of Wonders in Washington, D. C. Where will you ever see another one like it?
Natural Historical Collections
A parallel universe of natural history can be found at Blue Nile Botanicals.
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Massachusetts houses wonders!
Local Interest; our Colleagues for a Great Local Road Trip
AVA Gallery, our friends and neighbors in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Calvin Coolidge was born in nearby Plymouth, Vermont. You can see his grave. And buy cheese!
Our neighbors present living history at Fort at Number Four in Charlestown, New Hampshire.
the Hood Museum at nearby Dartmouth College has a mermaid!
The Rockingham (Vermont) Arts and Museum Project.
Relics from the War Between the States
Confederate Memorial Hall in New Orleans has Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard's slippers on display!
The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia.
The National Park Service and the battlefield at Vicksburg.
See all the cannonballs those d--n Yankees fired at Vicksburg at the Old Courthouse Museum
The Bigger Picture
http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp
Virtual Places We Like
Let's hear it for the fabulous Johnny Fox!
There is a virtual P. T. Barnum's American Musuem online at the "Lost Museum"
A great bunch of magazines; A great web-site!
Weird America seems as enamored of the Museum as we are of Joe Citro!
