Le Tout P'ti FC Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 Where have you been of late? I'm just finished seeing "Rip It Up: the story of Scottish Pop" at NMS. I'm a regular to NMS, it's a very easy way to kill a couple of hours with my wee boy. But this was first time in a while I've went for my own sake, and it was magic! What weird and wonderful museums have you visited on your travels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 The best museum I've been to was the Warsaw Uprising museum in, er, Warsaw. It told the heartbreaking story of the ill -fated revolt by Polish citizens against the nazis in 1944. It was dark and sinister and just oozed atmosphere. There was the amplified noise of a heartbeat echoing around the place. It made the hairs on my neck stand up. I was fascinated and lost myself in there for a couple of hours. The worst was the national museum of geology in Bucharest. This was just row after row of stones in glass cabinet. It was fucking boring. The peasant museum across the road was interesting though and the village museum up the road was pretty cool. This was basically a public park with all manner of medieval wooden dwellings, churches etc. Well worth a visit. This is not a museum, but by far the worst tourist attraction I've ever visited was the waltzing waters in Newtonmore. This was a theatre with a stage that contained nothing more than a garden sprinkler with a few flashing lights behind it. They'd play music while lights flashed away behind this water that was being sprayed by the sprinkler. It was fucking gash and it seemed to go on forever. Up until that point I had no idea that it was possible for something to be so pish... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saigon Raider Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 Love a museum but usually kids ones these days. The NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam is an absolute cracker. Was also at the Brooklyn Children's Museum yesterday and it was very good. Big one next week, the New York Natural History Museum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmudgePop Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 I like the Museum in Bangkok Thailand. The National Museum has beautiful art collections, types of furniture and royal barges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JTS98 Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 I went to the Samara Football Museum and the Samara Space Museum last week. Both mince, to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieKTID Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 Love a museum but usually kids ones these days. The NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam is an absolute cracker. Was also at the Brooklyn Children's Museum yesterday and it was very good. Big one next week, the New York Natural History Museum. The company my girlfriend works for had their christmas party at NEMO, what a night that was.The Scheepvaartmuseum across from NEMO is really good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 On 25/06/2018 at 17:44, stevieKTID said: The Scheepvaartmuseum across from NEMO is really good Is it just loads of sniffing jars or are there live exhibits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieKTID Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 1 hour ago, welshbairn said: Is it just loads of sniffing jars or are there live exhibits? Just jars, bloody EU regulations put a stop to the live exhibits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampden Diehard Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Best I've been to is the Samsung in Seoul. Worth going just for the building itself.The German FA museum in Dortmund is ok. The shop is pretty much restricted to overpriced Adidas stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 After having not been for about 30 years I took the bairn to Elgin Museum at the weekend. For quite a small museum it’s actually really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Ferguson's Hat Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 If anyone finds themselves in Vientiane, Laos then I cannot recommend the National Museum enough. It's the most dated, biased drivel you could hope to encounter and it's absolutely hilarious. Hilarious in a way that I didn't think was possible of a museum, but it was a genuine highlight of my time there. The USA are referred to as 'The Imperialist Dogs' throughout the entire exhibition. I visited The Museum of Broken Relationships while in Zagreb which I found quite interesting and unusual. There were some really hard hitting accounts of life, love and death and one particularly bizarre piece where the author started out by describing the tragic death of her husband but then half way through it abruptly changed to a ringing endorsement of her new book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Blades Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 After having not been for about 30 years I took the bairn to Elgin Museum at the weekend. For quite a small museum it’s actually really good.Where is that? And don’t say “Elgin” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 17 minutes ago, Brother Blades said: Where is that? And don’t say “Elgin” In Halfords behind the hub caps and car mats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 20 minutes ago, Brother Blades said: Where is that? And don’t say “Elgin” East end of the High Street, near the Little Cross. Shrunken head and Peruvian Mummy are still there. Both still very much wids by Elgin standards as well. 1 minute ago, welshbairn said: In Halfords behind the hub caps and car mats. Dont be silly, that's the Magic Tree museum your thinking of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandcowden Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 On 03/08/2018 at 19:00, Melanius Mullarkey said: After having not been for about 30 years I took the bairn to Elgin Museum at the weekend. For quite a small museum it’s actually really good. nice traditional museum that doesn't assume its visitors are idiots with a 5 second attention span.does it still have the display on elgins links with sevilla fc? in a similar vein the bettyhill museums nice too,as is thursos, inverness's is all right too. what I like about some of these places is they often have temporary displays that are just totally random, for example inverness a few years ago had an in depth presentation on the heroic soviet defence of brest litovsk during the opening months of Barbarossa in 1941 the british museum in London is spectacular and free also enjoyed the polish natiomal museum in Krakow,the Portuguese maritime museum in belem near Lisbon and Valencia city museum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tout P'ti FC Posted August 8, 2018 Author Share Posted August 8, 2018 I had a trip to the McManus in Dundee. Found it really interesting, although my enjoyment suffered slightly from that thing where your 4yo whizzes you round and you're left making a mental note to come back one day and have a proper look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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