What is the best Science! museum?

[Savonarola]

I'm curious as to what people on this forum would consider the best science museum.

My personal favorite is the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois.  It's comprehensive enough that even an engineer can learn something; well maintained so that the hands on displays work, and the principles behind the exhibits are clearly explained.

My favorite museum of Natural History is The American Museum of Natural History.  They still have displays on the savages (though they can't call them that anymore) and an entire floor of dinosaurs.

My favorite aquarium is the Lisbon Oceanarium.  It's comprehensive, vast, and (if you can get away from the screaming Portuguese children) tranquil.

My favorite history of science museum is the Museo Galileo in Florence.  That has an impressive collection of artifacts.

[Admiral Yi]

Chicago rocks.

[mongers]

IMHO you shouldn't talk in terms of what's the best museum of a particular type or that one's better than another; I think their effects are cumulative.

[garbon]

I'm not that big of a fan of science museums.

[Savonarola]

IMHO you should talk in terms of what's the best museum of particular type or that one's better than another; I think their effects are cumulative.

That's a fascinating point, Mongers.  What do you think is the best museum in the four categories I listed in my initial post (Science and Technology, Natural History, Aquarium and History of Science)?  Why do you think your are better than other museums?

[Ed Anger]

Creationist musuem in Kentucky.

[mongers]

IMHO you should talk in terms of what's the best museum of particular type or that one's better than another; I think their effects are cumulative.

That's a fascinating point, Mongers.  What do you think is the best museum in the four categories I listed in my initial post (Science and Technology, Natural History, Aquarium and History of Science)?  Why do you think your are better than other museums?

I don't honest thinks I've been to enough museums to say, though I should be getting a few more under my belt next summer.   

[Admiral Yi]

 

[derspiess]

Creationist musuem in Kentucky.

Seconded!

They actually have pretty cool billboards, FWIW.

[Ed Anger]

To be serious, Chicago and Indy have some rockin' museums for kids. I like the one in Dayton, as it is small, my feet don't hurt walking in it and the Planetarium plays planet caravan.

Which fucking rocks.

[derspiess]

The COSI museum in Columbus is pretty good.  And the children's museum at the Hall of Justice, erm, Union Terminal is pretty decent.  Kind of expensive to do everything there, though.

[Ed Anger]

And of course there is the national musuem of the Air Force, which has both v-2 rockets and Bock's Car.

Boner-riffic.

[Caliga]

To be serious, Chicago and Indy have some rockin' museums for kids.

Princesca is at the one in Indy this weekend, in fact.

[katmai]

Balboa Park in San Diego has a bunch of fun ones, my favorite would be the
Air & Space

[The Larch]

The Natural History Museum in London runs circles around any other natural history museum in the world.