Sucky Visitors at the Museum

[Sapphire Silk]

Yes.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2...tion-museum-1/

Damn. So much for my fantasy vacation.

[depechemodefan]

Well, if those parents don't want their kids to be confronted by death, they definately shouldn't go to this museum National Museum of Funeral History. I went (and I got depressed; 1) my 40th bd 2) mom recently died) and thought it was pretty unexpirering. There were hearsts, coffins (one was made for a family of 3-I think the parents wanted to off themselves after their child died, so they made big casket for the 3, but luckily the parents decided not to kill themselves), a presidential display (with a tacky Lincoln in his casket). The Celebrating the Lives and Deaths of the Popes wing was quality work, but the Egyptian display was so sub-par. The embalming and late 19the cent display was good. But I can imagine parents bringing their kids to this museum and then get pissed at the staff if their kid starts crying.

[Sapphire Silk]

Well, if those parents don't want their kids to be confronted by death, they definately shouldn't go to this museum National Museum of Funeral History.

Or the Mutter Medical Museum in Philadelphia. It's full of skeletons and pickled body parts, including some fetuses. http://www.collegeofphysicians.org/mutter-museum/

Or the Body Worlds exhibit, which has a plastinated dissection of a pregnant woman with her fetus (yes, this is a real body of a real woman who died while pregnant; her family donated her body for medical educational purposes). http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3249...xhibition.html

[Antisocial_Worker]

Any time I've been in the Vancouver Art Gallery it has been rather sparse and I know people bitch about that a lot. There just isn't much in the way of displays most of the time and I've found that it's just not worth the money to go unless they had a huge display event going on. And due their funding being cut horribly they just are not able to afford the good shows.

Truth be told, for what is -- I believe -- the main art museum for a major city, it was pretty pitiful...

[PandaHat]

Any time I've been in the Vancouver Art Gallery it has been rather sparse and I know people bitch about that a lot. There just isn't much in the way of displays most of the time and I've found that it's just not worth the money to go unless they had a huge display event going on. And due their funding being cut horribly they just are not able to afford the good shows.

A lot of big art galleries and museums in the UK are free. My sister found out that this in not the normal state of affair in other countries when she went to Barcelona and hadn't enough money to visit any art galleries whilst there.

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

I was in the Museum of Natural History in NYC. I was in the dinosaur rooms all day. I clearly recall thinking "looks like Intelligent design to me!"

I vote that the woman was making a yuk-yuk.

[Shalom]

Unless of course, they persist in the fallacy of "If God intended us to fly, he'd have given us wings.".

But He did.

They're made of aluminum...

[dawnfire]

But He did.

They're made of aluminum...

he did

he gave us minds to figure it out ourselves.