Bemused by Museums
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Took the boy (6) to London today, briefly visited the Natural History Museum (1.5 hour queue to get in) and the Science Museum (no queue).
Last time I visited them was in about 1987, and I thought they were awesome places - loads of stuff in glass cases to look at and read about. Brilliant.
Today, I thought I'd walked into the wrong buildings: The experience has been so dumbed down and made so pointlessly 'interactive' that I might as well have stayed at home and done an online search for stuff.
And the fricking lighting: It's so dark in the Dinosaur hall and Aerospace halls that you literally can't see many of the exhibits. Who the f
k thinks this st up? How on earth such amazing artefacts can be displayed so poorly is beyond me, but they've sure managed it.
I've never visited the RAF museum, but someone told me that it's like walking around during a power cut. Are the same fkwits in charge of all these museums these days?
Last time I visited them was in about 1987, and I thought they were awesome places - loads of stuff in glass cases to look at and read about. Brilliant.
Today, I thought I'd walked into the wrong buildings: The experience has been so dumbed down and made so pointlessly 'interactive' that I might as well have stayed at home and done an online search for stuff.
And the fricking lighting: It's so dark in the Dinosaur hall and Aerospace halls that you literally can't see many of the exhibits. Who the f
k thinks this st up? How on earth such amazing artefacts can be displayed so poorly is beyond me, but they've sure managed it.I've never visited the RAF museum, but someone told me that it's like walking around during a power cut. Are the same f
kwits in charge of all these museums these days?Gassing Station | Science! | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff