Museums

[Dionysos]

What are you like at museums?

Do you like to visit museums whenever you visit a place? If so, then what kinds do you prefer? Or don't you mind? Do you ever visit museums for the hell of it?

When at a museum do you read almost everything in it? Or do you just run through and take a quick glance and finish it really fast?




Myself I always go to museums whenever I go somewhere, not just because it is something to do but because I usually am interested in whatever it may be.

I can't stop looking at stuff and end up reading everything and annoy myself with how thorough I am. Everyone always ends up having to wait for me at the exit of a museum while I'm still looking through it. In a way you could guess it feels painful looking around museums as I never want to leave each exhibit I am in, but I enjoy it. I often also try to imagine the object I am viewing in use, or the animal I am viewing alive etc.


Anyway... What about yourselves? Are you bonkers in a museum? Or do you just walk through like most people? And what sort of things do you like in a museum?


Jeez, I apologise. I asked a lot of questions there at the begining and end of this thread. Do not feel the need to answer them all.

 

[Mitsuki]

I do like museums, yeah. As a matter of fact, I visited two last weekend. I think what really interested me the most are the taxidermy they had on display - I saw a few last week and they were quite astonishing.

Anyway, I'll read a few stuff but I'm typically more focused on the images and artifacts. I'll read some of the history but not everything. I guess while I love museums, I can also get bored quickly if I stand in one place for too long. I need to be walking around even if I revisit the same section twice. Sometimes I find myself walking too fast in front of my group who are typically lagging behind. It's not that I want to get out of there as soon as possible...it's just that I've seen what's in front of me, read a few stuff, very interesting, now moving on. I'm not one of those people who would actually sit on a bench and watch a few clips on a screen and take my sweet little time. =/

But I do love going to museums.

 

[Bambi]

Ive not been to a museum since school

As long as it's not an art museum, I love them. Art museums bore the tits off me

I love any other though, all that interesting stuff to look at, although I dont tend to linger in an area too long, Il just walk through unless its really interesting or you are allowed to touch stuff, then Im a bit of a pain

I just recently found out the science and industry museum in manchester has been free for years... It's good there aswel

I used to love going with school though, especially when it was all the victorian stuff and trains and shit

Aww nice one argor, now I wanna go to one D:

 

[CassinoChips]

I love museums, but then I'm a history nerd. Actually, I don't make it a specific point to go to a museum, but I'll never object to including one in a day. I went to 2 of the Smithsonians the last time I was in DC, on top of seeing a lot of the monuments. And next time I go, we'll probably hit a couple more.

My favorite event of this nature, though, wasn't a museum trip per se. Right about the time Pope John Paul II passed away, there was a History of the Vatican exhibit that went to 3 cities in North America: Montreal, Chicago, and San Antonio. (Why San Antonio? I have no flipping idea.) But since I was visiting my mom and her husband in San Antonio at the time, and it was kind of a one-shot deal, and I grew up Catholic, we went. And it was really, really cool. They showed a lot of the artwork that had been in the Vatican, a bunch of the gifts that had been given, some of the various personal effects of previous Popes, etc. etc.

When I'm in museums, I'm like Dan. Everybody's waiting on me because I have to sit there and read every little descriptive tag of every little item. I like pretty much everything, but some of the stuff that really tickles my fancy includes religious history, antebellum US history, animals, WW2, among others.

 

[Warbsywoo]

Like Chippy, I'm a history nerd, so whenever I'm within distance of a museum, I usually start figuring out plans as to how to get there and research what exhibits are on display during the current season. It doesn't matter what kind of museum, whether it's a war museum or an art museum, I still want to see a good collection of things from our past. That and I love seeing new things.

As to how I conduct myself? I did carry this habit from elementary school where I just walk through, see everything, with my hands behind my back.

 

[Valvalis]

I'm a huge history nerd too, and I LOVE museums, so I always take the time to read everything if I can I think it's kind of like what Argor said, I love picturing someone making or using the artifact I'm looking at, or what the animal or person would have been like alive, etc. Even though I'm not crazy about looking at taxidermy tbh because it makes me sad that the animal might have been killed on purpose for it (though I know it's not always the case), I do really love looking at artifacts from all periods that real people used, it's really exciting for me. I especially loved the Edinburgh Museum in Scotland where they had a whole huge section dedicated to Norse people, and they had all kinds of old swords, hacksilver, combs, all kinds of really fascinating stuff that was about 1000 years old or so Also, I saw the touring Titanic exhibit a few years back and that was really fascinating as well; and the Tutenkhamen one, which had some really amazing artwork with lots of valuable metals/jewels worked into it. Also I know a few hieroglyphs so it was fun to try to read some of the writing (though I failed majorly at it XD). Anyway I think all museums are awesome, I also love planetariums and science museums, especially the ones with interactive exhibits where you can play around with different scientific properties (gravity, density etc.) And I love looking at real pieces of asteroids and other space debris, I went to Meteor Crater one year and saw all these rocks that actually came from outer space and I went nuts just thinking about that It was really cool.

 

[Bei Bei]

I am a huge museum nut, which is why I decided to work for one. I entered one of the student fellowship programs to help with research.

I'm not into the whole history aspect of museums even if they are really cool. I'm more into the more scientific aspects such as different organisms, bacteria that sort of thing which is part of what I work on there. It's really weird seeing the relationship between history and science.

Museums for me just make learning more fun because everything is more visual and gives you a better idea about what history feels like.

 

[Shu]

Museums are indeed something I do love to go to whether it be a science, art, car, or history museum it's always interesting to me.

Now I don't like standing in one place for ever or having the piece explained to me. I would rather hear about it then hear some boring tour guide clog up my day with their monotone voice. I grew up going to a science museum in my home town Nashville, TN and the place is stellar. It has a planetarium, and exhibits out the arse for kids and even science shows that explains how certain things work. (electricity in potatoes, spectrums, how to get an egg in a coke bottle with just a match..etc..)

Art exhibits are always cool, unless they get too religious on me. The best museums I've been to though were in Washington DC.

1) Smithsonian American Art Museum - Amazing art, a lot of greek mythology and such, stuff that actually appeals to me.

2) National museum of Crime and punishment - Probably the most interesting live exhibits you'll see as well plenty of historical devices/weaponry throughout the American history.

 

[Linnaete]

I suppose that any museum would fascinate me, as long as it doesn't involve some old man leading a group of us and feeling the need to explain in minute detail everything there is every time we enter a new room. In fact, I don't generally enjoy being in groups whenever I'm in a museum. I prefer to explore it alone, so I can wander around in my own pace.

History museums tend to fascinate me the most, purely because I'm also largely a history-type individual. I've visited a couple of Imperial War Museums and the vast displays in them just blew me away. I would just stand there and read nearly every bit of information there is, even if what I'm reading about is a particular era of history that I have never really studied before (e.g. Napoleonic Wars, Battle of Thermopylae, Franco-Prussian War).

 

[Tyler Breeze]

The only museum I've ever been to was the Hall Of Science. I'm not even sure if that counts as a museum. This happened about 11 years ago. It was pretty damn fun. All the little extra stuff you could do, while looking at displays. We come home with a lot of stuff from the shop that day.

I just remembered when we went on a class trip to some museum. It was fancy and all, but I was just bored and wanted to leave. XD

 

[The Master]

I LOVE going to museums!

But I can never for the life of me remember the names of the museums
I (not too long ago) went to a Rembrandt exhibit and we saw all his paintings and they were all fantastic

I want to go to another museum sometime