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Honestly, I have always considered museums extremely boring and uninteresting, since childhood, a feeling that somewhat persists to this day. Some of them are e

Honestly, I have always considered museums extremely boring and uninteresting, since childhood, a feeling that somewhat persists to this day. Some of them are even extremely depressing places. What I would like, however, is free visits to Starbucks. Perhaps that makes me a simple guy, but I just love a good cup of coffee if I am feeling a bit down. It jabs me right back to reality and rationality usually.

faeriechangling 4y ago
Both are used in anxiety treatment, but coffee is a bit of an unfortunate purchase for somebody with clinical anxiety.
dale_glass 4y ago
Many are, sure, the trick is to find something that appeals to you. Here's a few I recommend: https://www.micropia.nl https://www.micropia.nl -- A museum of microscopic life. With actual living exhibits and a bunch of microscopes you can play with. They have a lab on site to maintain the exhibition. How cool is that? https://www.teylersmuseum.nl/en https://www.teylersmuseum.nl/en -- Loads of old fashioned, steampunk-looking gadgets. Leyden jars, old microscopes in brass, that kind of thing. https://www.hnf.de/start.html https://www.hnf.de/start.html -- Heinz Nixdorf Museum, the largest computing museum. You get to play with a working phone exchange and a whole bunch of other stuff. https://www.rmg.co.uk/cutty-sark https://www.rmg.co.uk/cutty-sark -- Cool ship, and you can also have lunch under it, because the whole thing is suspended over people's heads. There's a huge and very nice park nearby too. https://frammuseum.no/ https://frammuseum.no/ -- Ship that was used in Arctic and Antarctic exploration https://norskfolkemuseum.no/ https://norskfolkemuseum.no/ -- Norwegian Museum of Cultural History. Close to the one above. https://15kop.ru/en https://15kop.ru/en -- Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines. Probably not the best time to travel to Moscow, but maybe when things quiet down.
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EliRivers 4y ago
Museums (like education!) are wasted on the young, in my experience. When young, a museum was just a lot of unconnected items; that is, I just didn't know enough about the world and the history of it for anything in the museum to connect to anything I already knew. None of it meant anything to me and being there was thus dull. Now, almost any museum is interesting; the displays and exhibits will connect to things I already know about, places I have been, history I have already learned, cultures I've experienced, and something in my accumulated wisdom will make a new connection and fit better. Eventually it reaches the point where things that should sound like parodies, like a museum of drainage, becomes genuinely interesting.
- dale_glass 4y ago
  Children need museums that cater to them. Dragging a 6 year old into a building full of weird paintings or sculptures is a waste of time and only annoys the kid. There are plenty museums full of cool stuff that's either interesting them, or can be played with, or are outdoors and can be handled as just a pleasant walk through a cool looking place.
  - defaultwizard 4y ago
    I think the science museum (also in London) is the perfect kind of museum for children. There's so many weird things that will interest the children in there.
    - ben_w 4y ago
      Absolutely; or at least, I have fond memories of it from the early 90s when I was a kid myself.
  - bodge5000 4y ago
    I remember going to the National Space Centre (there might be multiple in the UK, the one I remember was shaped like a giant white beehive) a lot as a kid. In fact, it seems to my memory that up until the age of ~14 every kids birthday was hosted there, and we never seemed to get bored of it. Looking back on it, I find it funny that out of all the amazing things there (a full sized rocket, some kind of capsule you could actually sit in and play with the controls on), the thing that continually fascinated me the most was a little audio visualiser with a microphone, so when you spoke into it the line would deform.
fnord123 4y ago
>What I would like, however, is free visits to *Starbucks*. Perhaps that makes me a simple guy, but I just love a *good cup of coffee* What do these have to do with one another?
_dain_ 4y ago
The elite don't want you to know this, but you can visit Starbucks for free
- afiori 4y ago
  Except if you look homeless, they will call the police in that case.
makeitdouble 4y ago
Museums are like any other venues, you have to choose things that appeal to you. There's anything from exotic life forms to experience centered modern art, science experiment expositions, ancient musical instruments... As long as you have any interests there should be museums relating to those.
lm28469 4y ago
This is probably the saddest thing I read in 2022

faeriechangling 4y ago

Both are used in anxiety treatment, but coffee is a bit of an unfortunate purchase for somebody with clinical anxiety.

dale_glass 4y ago

Many are, sure, the trick is to find something that appeals to you. Here's a few I recommend: https://www.micropia.nl https://www.micropia.nl -- A museum of microscopic life. With actual living exhibits and a bunch of microscopes you can play with. They have a lab on site to maintain the exhibition. How cool is that? https://www.teylersmuseum.nl/en https://www.teylersmuseum.nl/en -- Loads of old fashioned, steampunk-looking gadgets. Leyden jars, old microscopes in brass, that kind of thing. https://www.hnf.de/start.html https://www.hnf.de/start.html -- Heinz Nixdorf Museum, the largest computing museum. You get to play with a working phone exchange and a whole bunch of other stuff. https://www.rmg.co.uk/cutty-sark https://www.rmg.co.uk/cutty-sark -- Cool ship, and you can also have lunch under it, because the whole thing is suspended over people's heads. There's a huge and very nice park nearby too. https://frammuseum.no/ https://frammuseum.no/ -- Ship that was used in Arctic and Antarctic exploration https://norskfolkemuseum.no/ https://norskfolkemuseum.no/ -- Norwegian Museum of Cultural History. Close to the one above. https://15kop.ru/en https://15kop.ru/en -- Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines. Probably not the best time to travel to Moscow, but maybe when things quiet down.

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EliRivers 4y ago

Museums (like education!) are wasted on the young, in my experience. When young, a museum was just a lot of unconnected items; that is, I just didn't know enough about the world and the history of it for anything in the museum to connect to anything I already knew. None of it meant anything to me and being there was thus dull. Now, almost any museum is interesting; the displays and exhibits will connect to things I already know about, places I have been, history I have already learned, cultures I've experienced, and something in my accumulated wisdom will make a new connection and fit better. Eventually it reaches the point where things that should sound like parodies, like a museum of drainage, becomes genuinely interesting.

dale_glass 4y ago
Children need museums that cater to them. Dragging a 6 year old into a building full of weird paintings or sculptures is a waste of time and only annoys the kid. There are plenty museums full of cool stuff that's either interesting them, or can be played with, or are outdoors and can be handled as just a pleasant walk through a cool looking place.
- defaultwizard 4y ago
  I think the science museum (also in London) is the perfect kind of museum for children. There's so many weird things that will interest the children in there.
  - ben_w 4y ago
    Absolutely; or at least, I have fond memories of it from the early 90s when I was a kid myself.
- bodge5000 4y ago
  I remember going to the National Space Centre (there might be multiple in the UK, the one I remember was shaped like a giant white beehive) a lot as a kid. In fact, it seems to my memory that up until the age of ~14 every kids birthday was hosted there, and we never seemed to get bored of it. Looking back on it, I find it funny that out of all the amazing things there (a full sized rocket, some kind of capsule you could actually sit in and play with the controls on), the thing that continually fascinated me the most was a little audio visualiser with a microphone, so when you spoke into it the line would deform.

fnord123 4y ago

>What I would like, however, is free visits to *Starbucks*. Perhaps that makes me a simple guy, but I just love a *good cup of coffee* What do these have to do with one another?

_dain_ 4y ago

The elite don't want you to know this, but you can visit Starbucks for free

afiori 4y ago
Except if you look homeless, they will call the police in that case.

makeitdouble 4y ago

Museums are like any other venues, you have to choose things that appeal to you. There's anything from exotic life forms to experience centered modern art, science experiment expositions, ancient musical instruments... As long as you have any interests there should be museums relating to those.

lm28469 4y ago

This is probably the saddest thing I read in 2022