04-02-2007, 11:49 PM

Just wanted to share some pictures from today! There are also some from the California Science Center.

04-03-2007, 12:01 AM

Very cool. I love all of that Earth history and evolution stuff. It's awesome.

04-03-2007, 02:38 AM

Thanks for sharing these Netty, they are awesome pics and interesting too. I love museums, could get lost in one all day and still feel like I didn't see it all.

04-03-2007, 03:05 AM

Museums are cool.. When I went to NYC a few years ago, we went to the American Museum of Natural History. There wasn't enough time in the day to explore the whole thing. One of the main exhibits was related to the pyramids and king Tut and all that stuff. Very cool.

04-09-2007, 05:38 AM

Those are great photos.
Netty, if you have not visited The Getty Center or the The Getty Villa, they are both worth the visit. You have to make parking reservations for the Villa.

http://www.getty.edu/visit/

04-09-2007, 05:48 AM

Great pics Netty, thanks for sharing them with us!

04-09-2007, 10:48 AM

I wonder why they call it the "natural" history museum?? I have been trying (unsuccessfully thus far) to find the "unnatural" history museum.:confused:

04-09-2007, 11:00 AM

very nice, i was at the King Tut exhibit in Philly on sunday, it was awesome. hasnt been in the country for like 30 years too.
-chris

04-09-2007, 11:06 AM

Great pics Netty!

04-09-2007, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by PapaNoHair

I wonder why they call it the "natural" history museum?? I have been trying (unsuccessfully thus far) to find the "unnatural" history museum.:confused:

I'm guessing that "natural" means non-industrial or pre-modern. An "unnatural" history museum would be something like an auto museum, or a train museum, or Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.

04-09-2007, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by PapaNoHair

I wonder why they call it the "natural" history museum?? I have been trying (unsuccessfully thus far) to find the "unnatural" history museum.:confused:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/museum/

04-09-2007, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by johntalin

Those are great photos.
Netty, if you have not visited The Getty Center or the The Getty Villa, they are both worth the visit. You have to make parking reservations for the Villa.

http://www.getty.edu/visit/

I've been to the Getty Center but I haven't been to The Getty Villa. I've seen pictures and it looks beautiful! I love greek and roman art.


Thanks for the comments everyone!!

04-09-2007, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by dohidied

http://www.answersingenesis.org/museum/

In my day, they called those churches. That's absolutely ridiculous. Evolution is a fact, regardless of your religious affiliations.

04-13-2007, 03:28 AM

Not a place for religion:

mu·se·um
noun
a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value

mu·se·um [myoo-zee-uhm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
a building or place where works of art, scientific specimens, or other objects of permanent value are kept and displayed.
[Origin: 1605–15; < L m?séum place sacred to the Muses, building devoted to learning or the arts (referring esp. to the scholarly institute founded in Alexandria about 280 b.c.) < Gk Mouse?on, equiv. to Moûs(a) Muse + -eion suffix of place]
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mu·se·um (my??-z?'?m) Pronunciation Key
n. A building, place, or institution devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, or artistic value.

[Latin M?s?um, from Greek Mouseion, shrine of the Muses, from Mouseios, of the Muses, from Mousa, Muse; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.]

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museum
1615, "the university building in Alexandria," from L. museum "library, study," from Gk. mouseion "place of study, library or museum," originally "a seat or shrine of the Muses," from Mousa "Muse." Earliest use in ref. to Eng. institutions was of libraries (e.g. the British Museum); sense of "building to display objects" first recorded 1683.

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a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value

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04-13-2007, 03:30 AM

Originally Posted by Netty4mac

I've been to the Getty Center but I haven't been to The Getty Villa. I've seen pictures and it looks beautiful! I love greek and roman art.


Thanks for the comments everyone!!

Netty, do you have some photos from the Getty Center?
Too bad that they don't allow is to take pictures of certain objects. I was told that if the exhibit is borrowed from another museum or country, you are not allowed to take photos.