Hey, Phill here from blackheart. My favourite museums would have to be the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris, it is absolutely fabulous, there are all manner of hands-on things to explore, I visited it last year on a music trip, I just wish we had spent more time there… My other favourite museum is Magna in Sheffield (in England, about 2hours away from me). Again it is a hands-on type place (there’s a pattern emerging!) The way the place is set out is brilliant, and there’s so much to see and do. I went with my auntie and we spent the whole day looking round, it’s that enthralling. I really enjoyed an exhibition at our local art gallery (Cartwright Hall, Bradford, UK) about the Titanic, it’s one of those events that really interests me. That’s all I can think about at the moment 
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I am Gypsy Girl. I have been online bloggine (in one form or another) for over five years. That makes me a blogging elder.
My blog is bits and pieces of nothing and everything. Everyone says I can write well, but I don’t see it. I guess if you’re not me, then it works. For me, it’s just my outlet, my therapy, my sanity.
My favorite museum is the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, where I used to live. I miss it.
Oh, wow… I’ve been to many museums.
One of my favorites was the Carnegie Museums in Pittsburgh. The art displays there were wonderful. It’s not like some other museums I’ve been to where you don’t know the names of the artists – these are guys who you learned about in elementary school. Andy Warhol and Vincent Van Goh. There are also dinosaurs.
I’ve been to the Smithsonian, of course, but not to any of the art galleries. There is never enough time, and the Museum of Natural History is a must-see if you’re in town no matter how many times you’ve been there. It’s been a long time since I was in the National Air and Space Museum, but that was really neat. They have (replicas?) the Wright brothers’ plane and the Apollo moon lander.
During our last trip to Washington, we missed visiting the new expansion building (it’s kind of out of town) for the Air and Space Museum, but I hear that they have an actual space shuttle and an SR-71 blackbird that you can look at. It’s fashioned like a giant hangar with all different eras of flying machines. Way cool.
The only museum I’ve been to in this area (Philadelphia) – which is a darn shame because the Museum of Art (you know, the building that Rocky runs up?) is supposed to be very good – is the Franklin Institute.
I know the Franklin Institute science museum like the back of my hand. It has a lot of hands-on physical science experiments that you can try, and they put on great shows. There was a series called the Science of Star Trek that was a very interesting comparison between real science and that used in the TV show.
I’ve been to a couple other interesting museums in Boston. Their science museum is nice. Boston is home to the Computer Museum, which houses several floors detailing the history of computers. They have a giant track-ball that you can climb on and control the cursor on a giant screen.
To aquariums count as museums? I’ve been to a couple of those, too. Camden has a nice new aquarium, and Baltimore’s aquarium was a great trip. I hear that the area has been cleaned up a lot since we went and it’s a much nicer day trip outing for families now.
Anyhow- Thanks for the FFAF! Stop by my site for more FFAF madness and prizes.
For this is my very first FFAF and you are lucky number 2. Go ahead you know you all want to “Ooooh and Aaaaah”! Yet what will I post? Ummm.
How about it is way to early in the morning for me to be cleaver.
Or that I am such a loser for forgetting that my mother inlaw was flying in last night to see the kids.
Or now I am stuck at work till close and she is with the kids by herself ( Need to mention that they are 4 & 2 yrs old. This is like being slowly tortured.)
Hee hee hee *evil little laugh*
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You know, I have to be honest with you, I’m not really a museum visitor. Sure, I’ve been to a few before, a couple in St. Louis and one tiny one in Laurel, MS; and an even tinier one here in my town of Ste. Genevieve, MO. I guess that would have to be my favorite – the little one in Ste. Gen simply because it’s our town and I do a lot concerning history and genealogy of this place.
There are places I would like to visit though, like the Holocaust museum in DC and the one here in St. Louis. One day…
Today is Free-For-All Friday! Free for All means you can post whatever you want on my blog. Say what you want to say, share a link, complain about household appliances, etc…all you have to do is login and post! Need an idea of what to write? First off Tell me who you are and pimp your blog then tell me about your favorite museum. One of mine is the local New Orleans Museum of Art.
Here’s how to do it:
1. Go to http://www.schleifstein.net/wp-admin/post.php
2. Login/Password: guest/freeforall
3. Enter a title, make the category “free for all”
4. Type what you want to type in “Post” and feel free to add technorati tags in the “Tags” box.
5. When you’re done, click “Publish”
Rules:
1. Please keep it somewhat clean…if you don’t think I would post it, don’t. God forbid if I find spam or porn links…
2. Feel free to link your blog…just make sure you say who you are. (sign your post)
3. I reserve the right to edit/delete inappropriate posts (or those with really obvious spelling mistakes)
Have fun! Oh and check out a larger version of the art and the FFAF blogroll after the jump.
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I’m going to post way early today so i can get one more piece up before the Free For All Friday starts. This is another gesture drawing from my sketchbook. I decided to post a quick picture of a good listener because i will be listening to you posts tomorrow and hoping to get lots of new regular readers. Also, I decided to start taking comments and suggestions for different types of artwork and subjects for that art for the site, please contact me with your thoughts. The work was created Fall semester, 1999 while attending Continue reading ‘Listener in a sketchbook’
