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Favourite museum?

BeaE

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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  • BeaE said:
    the Black Country living museum

    I used to go there, also York railway museum. There used to be a wonderful one in London, the Museum of Mankind. I find the British Museum very dull - just rows and rows of the same thing. These other museums are laid out so that make sense of lives, not just rows of Roman pottery for example.

    In his book, Religion for Atheists [which I really recommend], writer Alain de Botton put forward the idea of museums and art galleries being laid out in order of ethical concerns - to help people live their lives, for example, relating, grieving, kindness, tenderness. 

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  • BeaE said:
    the Black Country living museum

    I used to go there, also York railway museum. There used to be a wonderful one in London, the Museum of Mankind. I find the British Museum very dull - just rows and rows of the same thing. These other museums are laid out so that make sense of lives, not just rows of Roman pottery for example.

    In his book, Religion for Atheists [which I really recommend], writer Alain de Botton put forward the idea of museums and art galleries being laid out in order of ethical concerns - to help people live their lives, for example, relating, grieving, kindness, tenderness. 

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  • in reply to Marianne72

    Marianne, I think a museum laid out like that would put me off, I'd feel like I was being told how to experience and feel about an exhibit, there are paintings and pieces of music that I've had a totally different reaction to What "I'm supposed " to have, the same with some sculpture.

    I found the natural history museum in London incredibly boring, admittedly I went some years ago, I also never got on with the Science Museum, it had been made "interactive" and it both bored and overwhelmed me.