This was my 2nd time in this natural history museum in Paris' Jardin des Plantes, because of the holidays, it was hard to get in (the available slots had filled up, but I found a way by being creative). It is a very packed museum from an overachieving team probably around 100 years ago, in bringing lots of specimens and sorting them by type:
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2024-04-09 01:01
in Computers, Sciencemuseums, Texas
I finished my day visit of Austin in the Texas Toy Museum and Arcade, which had a pretty cool collection of old video games, flippers, role playing games, cartoons, and other geek memorabilia:
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2023-12-30 01:01
in Computers, Sciencemuseums, Uk
While briefly in Sheffield, I had a little bit of time before going back to Manchester, and the most enticing place to visit was the National Videogame Museum.
Once there, I only had about 1H as it closes betweeen 13:00 and 14:00. I didn't have a much time to play, but enough time to look around and enjoy the collection:
The various historical collections were fairly good:
Hopefully I'll be back in Sheffield one day, and will have time to play more next time.
This was the last major London museum I hadn't seen yet, so I was excited to finally be able to visit it as part of a quick 2 day visit of London. I was ready for a full day as I knew it was big, but with efficient sightseeing was able to finish it 2h before closing time which left some time to re-visit the science museum next door.
Many things to see there, so these are just a few excerpts:
It had been a while since I had been in the area, so since ASOT 1000 was happening in the same location, it was a good excuse to go visit again:
The really cool part of that museum is of course the space shuttle that was moved there:
including a booster
After flying the space shuttle to LAX (through a nice flight across the california coast, I remember seeing it when it flew by the bay area), they show the challenging trip to the science center:
The rest of the museum was still fun to see, including a next expo on Ankor:
Since I was going by Birmingham (clickme) to stop by Cosford RAF Museum (click me), the most interesting attraction seemed to be the Thinktank Science Museum, so that's where I went. It was a bit unusual in layout and displays, but I enjoyed it:
The vehicles section was fair:
Other various displays:
There was an interesting exhibit that showed how different drugs worked on the brain:
Animals:
The last floor also had interesting displays on existing and future technologies:
Liverpool has a fair amount of museums, turns out the "World Museum" is a bit of an "everything museum". I'm typically not a huge fan of those, as I prefer museums that focus on something and are good at it, but I'll admit that this museum is an exception, it had different focusses on different floors and was an enjoyable visit.
Science: