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Started by mongers, June 27, 2012, 07:13:37 PM

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derspiess

I'm having museum envy.  The Ed Anger museum is awesome but it's not close enough to Cincy to call it my local musem.  In Cincy itself we have a decent kids museum and a pretty good art museum.  I guess the Cincinnati Museum Center is semi-notable, since it was used as the basis for the Hall of Justice on Superfriends :mellow:

Oh, and, uh, there's the creation museum over across the river :ph34r:
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We have Museum in the State capital.  They have letter written over a hundred years ago about pigs, an illegible message carved in the wood of a maple tree, a betamax video cassette player dating from the last century and the prize exhibit: a 1958 Desote that ancient Missourians used in settling the state.
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Quote from: derspiess on June 28, 2012, 03:53:23 PM
I'm having museum envy.  The Ed Anger museum is awesome but it's not close enough to Cincy to call it my local musem.  In Cincy itself we have a decent kids museum and a pretty good art museum.  I guess the Cincinnati Museum Center is semi-notable, since it was used as the basis for the Hall of Justice on Superfriends :mellow:

Oh, and, uh, there's the creation museum over across the river :ph34r:

Frankly, I count anything within an hour's drive as local.
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Dont know where the local one is. Dont care. :P
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Quote from: Ed Anger on June 28, 2012, 05:53:47 PM
Frankly, I count anything within an hour's drive as local.

Hour & a half for me :contract:

I keep wanting to take my kid to Serpent Mound but can't justify the 3 to 3.5 hours worth of driving to do so.  Would be different if they had something else nearby worth doing.
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Quote from: Razgovory on June 28, 2012, 04:03:50 PM
We have Museum in the State capital.  They have letter written over a hundred years ago about pigs, an illegible message carved in the wood of a maple tree, a betamax video cassette player dating from the last century and the prize exhibit: a 1958 Desote that ancient Missourians used in settling the state.

It isn't in Jefferson City, or even Missouri (though it is near St. Louis), but I think Cahokia is one of the best places in the country. It seems crazy to me that what is in St. Louis gets so much publicity but a borderline worldclass site a few miles away is barely mentioned. And from what I've seen, gets few visitors.
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Ed Anger

Quote from: derspiess on June 28, 2012, 07:30:35 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 28, 2012, 05:53:47 PM
Frankly, I count anything within an hour's drive as local.

Hour & a half for me :contract:

I keep wanting to take my kid to Serpent Mound but can't justify the 3 to 3.5 hours worth of driving to do so.  Would be different if they had something else nearby worth doing.

Take him to the creationist museum. It is a hoot.
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Quote from: derspiess on June 28, 2012, 07:30:35 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 28, 2012, 05:53:47 PM
Frankly, I count anything within an hour's drive as local.

Hour & a half for me :contract:

I keep wanting to take my kid to Serpent Mound but can't justify the 3 to 3.5 hours worth of driving to do so.  Would be different if they had something else nearby worth doing.

Wow...that's....madness. An hours travel of any sort is pushing it in my book let alone driving. That could take you into a totally different part of Britain easily.
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Ed Anger

Other fun "local" museums:

Neil armstrongs in wapokentka. Gus grissom's in Indiana. That one is a bit sad.
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CountDeMoney

Quote from: Ed Anger on June 28, 2012, 09:37:35 PM
Gus grissom's in Indiana. That one is a bit sad.

He was vindicated.  He knows it.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Ed Anger on June 28, 2012, 09:37:35 PM
Other fun "local" museums:

Not only does Maryland have the largest Stars Wars toys and collectibles museum, in the same building it also houses the nation's largest contiguous Hamster Habitat.


Ed Anger

Indiana had a fruit jar museum in Muncie.
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Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 28, 2012, 09:43:36 PM
Not only does Maryland have the largest Stars Wars toys and collectibles museum, in the same building it also houses the nation's largest contiguous Hamster Habitat.

Maryland truly is one of the great centers of world culture and civilization.
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