Tag: museum
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Neon TVs
Saw this giant creation yesterday at the newly re-opened American Art Museum. The little TVs within each state played content from the state, eg. landscapes, events, famous people. And for DC, a camera in the hall captured you and showed it on a tiny little screen. Pretty cool.
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Knitting Hope
I see this knitting krewe all the time in the Kogod Courtyard, and it always gives me a little smile, and a little hope that all is good in the world (despite the woman glaring at me in the pic). There was even a fella with them today.
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NOBODY HOME – Today’s museum was the National Zoo. Definitively proving this was a good week to go to DC museums, there was nobody there. I think I saw maybe 100 people the entire time? But, a cost: Because it’s winter, there were far fewer creatures to see. Sure, the mammals & monkeys were in…
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This Way to Mammals & Rest Rooms Today was the National Museum of Natural History. What a great museum! Huge, with tons of great visuals & writing. It’s full of energy & wonder, and goes DEEP into many topics, eg. minerals; planetary development; human evolution (I’m sure Creationists do lots of squirming in this museum…
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Unarchived Wish Today’s museum was the National Archives Museum. Overall a pretty good one, as you can’t go wrong when you can show off the Magna Carta, Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. It was also empty, so no jostling to read the unreadable documents. You can’t take pics in there, however. So what’s this…
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Kicked off museum week at the National Museum of American History. Unfortunately, as is normal, it really did nothing for me. No exhibit seemed that interesting, and I don’t think I learned anything. There’s probably no need for me to go here again. That said, somehow this pic came out better than viewing it in…
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