My Local Museum

[mrs_overall]

Yesterday I had a spare half hour so for the first time in years I went for a mooch around the local museum. It was priceless. Nothing is in any sort of order so there was a cabinet of carved jet next to a display of Spanish doll toilet roll holders (yes, seriously!). There are 2 rooms devoted entirely to Captain Cook that contain no artefacts relating directly to him. For example, there was a spear and shield that came from an island "Captain Cook MAY have sailed near."
My two favourite things were a stuffed squirrel mounted on a vertical branch so that the squirrel looked like it was pole dancing, and a black dummy dressed as a female slave...which had white hands. A party of visitors gave me a wide berth as I was hanging onto a display case because I was laughing so much. Brilliant.

[ummmm]

I've been to the Guinness museum :-) You get a Guinness pebble and a free pint....

[Zacs-Master]

Surely its a 'lucky' Guiness pebble, Gness.

[wolf63]

Our local museum and art gallery was really good last time I went there.

When we were kiddies they used to have a basement that had loads of shrunken heads, skeletons and other interesting but creepy items.

Sometimes there is a display that is funny - unintentionally. Best of all that it is free.

[craft1948]

Mrs_O the only time I've been to Elvington Air Museum was when they had a dinner/dance there. The food was bloody awful.........

[nungate]

We love the York Railway museum Craft, worth the 4 hour drive! It takes us 4 hours or so to get to York from where we live, so we usually make a proper break of it and spend a few days, come to think of it, we brought our nephew down just for the day he had a ball!

[craft1948]

nungate several London-based BT senior managers all made excuses for business trips to have meetings with me, and without exception all spent most of the day at the Railway Museum.
We hosted a dinner on the platform of the museum, for a load of Japanese business journalists. It was rather startling that they thought the figure of Queen Victoria in her carriage was actually the real thing stuffed.........

[ladyalex]

We loke to take in a museum when we go on holidays.
Our favourites include a prune museum, a wine museum, two cork museums and the very best, a dried fruit museum.

We have heard of a museum of burnt food in Massachusetts, but the son-and-heir swears that it is a 'virtual' museum that we cannot visit.
High on the list to visit is the tank museum somewhere in Southern Scotland....water tanks, of course, not army tanks.
It's a hobby.....

[nungate]

I mislaid my husband in there once Craft. He tends to read every single information board and Queenie got bored and she and I wandered off and he got "lost" Took us ages to find him, he claims he knew where he was. Queenie had a great time one of the "explainers" took her onto the footplate of Mallard and also let her start up one of the big engines they have on display.

[boxtops]

We have a wonderful little museum, here in Dover - the top floor hosts the Bronze Age Boat, the oldest seagoing vessel in the world - dug up when they dualled the A20...