parlor question:
Jun. 23rd, 2022 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
queenluaWhat's the most niche museum you've ever been to?
(derived from a delightful lunch conversation, in which we discussed some tribal-black-magic museum so obscure Google could not summon it, and a telecommunications museum that apparently is like church: only open Sundays, and a couple very niche artists' museums, etc)
My own answer is probably either the National Ainu Museum in Sapporo, or the Fillmore County Historical Society Museum in Fountain, Minnesota, which punches SHOCKINGLY far above its weight—I was there mostly because I happened to be in the area, and I found myself totally enthralled with all these old musical instruments you were allowed to just... play? and old Civil War diaries you could read with your own two hands? and just so much totally random Americana stuff in a giant room for you to sift through? Delightful.
(Also, while I don't think this makes the cut because it's technically not niche enough, it's so cool I always have to mention it: the Living Computer Museum is an absolute delight; it's packed with a bajillion old computers and you are allowed to play with ALL OF THEM; it's so fun and god I hope they come back post-covid and such...!)
Feel free to answer here, if you so choose! or just save it in your back pocket next time you need entertaining cocktail party discussion-starters :P
ETA (Sept 28, 2022): someone made a Twitter thread to this effect & the replies are great
(derived from a delightful lunch conversation, in which we discussed some tribal-black-magic museum so obscure Google could not summon it, and a telecommunications museum that apparently is like church: only open Sundays, and a couple very niche artists' museums, etc)
My own answer is probably either the National Ainu Museum in Sapporo, or the Fillmore County Historical Society Museum in Fountain, Minnesota, which punches SHOCKINGLY far above its weight—I was there mostly because I happened to be in the area, and I found myself totally enthralled with all these old musical instruments you were allowed to just... play? and old Civil War diaries you could read with your own two hands? and just so much totally random Americana stuff in a giant room for you to sift through? Delightful.
(Also, while I don't think this makes the cut because it's technically not niche enough, it's so cool I always have to mention it: the Living Computer Museum is an absolute delight; it's packed with a bajillion old computers and you are allowed to play with ALL OF THEM; it's so fun and god I hope they come back post-covid and such...!)
Feel free to answer here, if you so choose! or just save it in your back pocket next time you need entertaining cocktail party discussion-starters :P
ETA (Sept 28, 2022): someone made a Twitter thread to this effect & the replies are great
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Date: 2022-06-24 04:05 pm (UTC)Top two, probably:
- Booth Western Art Museum - random ass museum in the middle of bumfuck north GA that is HUGE and on par with new york ones, except it's all about western art? like literal cowboys and indians western paintings except 20 and 30 feet long.
- Museum of Aviation - went there back in January, also in the middle of GA, and the second largest airplane museum in the entire US. Absolutely bonkers amount of planes on display in their 5 warehouses that are converted to hold the craft and seeing the SR-71 in the flesh was kind of a religious moment if you're the least bit into military aircraft. Shit was so good it was surreal.
that communications one sounds amazing but also lol at the hours, bless them xD
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Date: 2022-06-26 01:49 am (UTC)(reminded me of another museum I forgot to mention!!! i got to visit the National Museum of Wildlife Art in my teens, and like... you've seen my tumblr, lol, that museum was LASER TARGETED at me haha)