OK, I’ll admit it, Craig and I are not exactly “cultured”. What does this mean?? Well it means that in Florence in 2003, we COULD have stood in line with 20 million other people and queued to get into the Uffizi art museum where there are literally 100’s of paintings by Italian artists, Michelangelo, Raffaello, Boticelli, all the classical Florentine painters, words by Leonardo and Donatello and you name it, they have it. But we didn’t. Instead, we snuck around the corner to a little known place, a place that only we would be interested in. The Institute and Museum of the History of Science. And we had a blast!!!! They have the actual apparatus that Galileo Galilei and Leonardo da Vinci used in their experiments, there’s a huge anatomy collection, scientific and medical instruments from the last 2000 years of history and did I mention Galileo yet????? I felt a little guilty at the time, like we weren’t broadening our horizons, but great artwork in Italy is a dime a dozen (we saw more Michelangelo than we can remember – it all pales in comparison to David, The Sistine Chapel and the outfits the Swiss Guard wears), but we had an absolute blast at the Science museum!!! So………….you might be able to imagine that we not only missed MoMA in New York, we skipped the Met too!!! And I felt a little guilty, but only for an instant, because we spent an entire day (from 10am to closing at 5.45pm) here:
That’s right folks, the geeks spent the whole day at the American Museum of Natural History and we even have the t-shirts to prove it!!! Oh my goodness, we had such a blast, what a great museum – you could spend days there and still not see it all!!! But as we only had a single day, it was the dinosaurs and the planetarium that we concentrated on. Oh and we went to the Extreme Mammals exhibit, but only because the world’s latest “missing link” was unveiled the week before we went and I’m a geneticist, I had to see what the furore was about!!!
So here they are, the faces of the American Museum of Natural History as seen through Craig’s camera lens:
Count those chins!!!! LOL!
But these are my personal favourites – especially after all those chins you saw in that previous picture!!!! LOL!
6 comments:
naw ~ you're not that weird ~ I love the science and history stuff to! Hmmmmm ~ when will Halley's be inhabitable, do ya think???
How is the MF doing?
I'm a museum buff myself. Doesn't really seem to matter what kind.
Love the scale photos!!!! That makes the entire trip worthwhile!!! Why doesn't the scale at WWs say something like that????
I would have done the same and spent all of my time at the same museum!!! But HEY - why haven't you posted San Antonio pics??? I know Craig took about 50 million of the city thanks to my crackhead who stopped every 2 freaking seconds!!! LMAO!
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You two are our kind of people!! We went to Kansas to visit Sam this past week and we passed up the art museum on campus to go to the Natural History Museum there - very very cool stuff!! Lots of dinosaur stuff has been found in Kansas - too cool!! The museum is horribly out of date - re 60's and 70's style - very low tech - but I just love archeology and science and there were lots of displays and actual fossils we could touch!! Our favorite museums are the interactive science ones!! Even though I must say I do like art museums too!
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