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Favourite museum?

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I don't generally like museums much but there are a few that I did really enjoy.

My favourite is the Beamish living museum. I liked seeing all the old fashioned things and visiting the old fashioned shops (sweet shop, chip shop etc). Going on the old fashioned public transport was really fun and quite a lot of the museum was outside, so it wasn't crowded.

I also like the Black Country living museum and the Weald and Downland living museum for similar reasons. I used to love going to the zoo (if that counts as a sort of museum?) but I'm now unsure whether zoos are ethical.

The postal museum was also very cool, as I went through a phase of being fascinated by the postal service. They have an underground train tour you can do, which uses some of the old postal tunnels. It is a bit claustrophobic, but I was able to anticipate this in advance so it wasn't too bad. I probably wouldn't go back, but that's just because I avoid London.

I'm trying to plan a holiday, but don't want to travel too far or go away for very long, and thought a trip to a cool museum might be a good idea.

Do you have a favourite museum? What is it and why do you like it?

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  • When I was a teen growing up in South east London, I used to like Horniman's museum. I remember it as surprisingly good. Founded by a tea trader in 1901.

    I also liked the Ashmolean in Oxford.

    The aerospace museum in San Diego, near the zoo, was good. Not very local though.

    The Forney transportation museum in Denver was a bit eccentric.

    As a kid I loved the science museum and natural history museums in London. The natural history one is probably one of the finest stone buildings in London. It used to be black with soot when I was small, as did the houses of parliament and others, and but they cleaned it 45 years ago and it is beautiful coloured stone. The best description was a cathedral to natural history.

    I haven't been to that many, and none in the last 15 years.

  • in reply to Stuart333

    I've not been to a museum for years either, I remember liking the V&A.

    I loved the Archaeological museum in Istanbul, although it's quite overwhelming, when you go to a museum in the UK they might have a few busts and sacophagi, but there; theres rooms and rooms of them, you can't really take it all in, theres thousands of years of history there.

    I was a bit disapointed with The Aya Sofia, I think I'd seen all the interesting bits on tv, it is a lovely building though.

    Istanbul itself is a bit like a living museum, crusader buildings next to Roman stuff and it's all higgledy piggledy.

    I think it's closed now, but the Fairy Museum on Skye was interesting, all the fairy lore of the island all together and celebrated.

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  • in reply to Stuart333

    I've not been to a museum for years either, I remember liking the V&A.

    I loved the Archaeological museum in Istanbul, although it's quite overwhelming, when you go to a museum in the UK they might have a few busts and sacophagi, but there; theres rooms and rooms of them, you can't really take it all in, theres thousands of years of history there.

    I was a bit disapointed with The Aya Sofia, I think I'd seen all the interesting bits on tv, it is a lovely building though.

    Istanbul itself is a bit like a living museum, crusader buildings next to Roman stuff and it's all higgledy piggledy.

    I think it's closed now, but the Fairy Museum on Skye was interesting, all the fairy lore of the island all together and celebrated.

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