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With all this talk of the cumberland pencil museum, perhaps we should take a little time, and think of the little museums, trying to make their way in the world.

Ideally these should be museums we have patronized ourselves, supporting them, and then sharing our wonderful times with each other. I know thats not so practical today, so we can talk about the wonderful little museums we'd like to visit as well, but field reports from the little museums i'm sure will be appreciated by all!

I've always had a little soft spot for "http://www.barnetmuseum.co.uk">the barnet museum, but its been difficult to make its opening times of

Tuesday to Thursday 2.30pm – 4.30pm
Saturday 10.30am – 12.30pm & 2.00pm – 4.00pm

Closed Sunday, Monday & Friday

Maybe you got lucky, and squeezed in one time?

― Storefront Church (688), Monday, 29 January 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

maybe you got lucky and didnt spend the rest of your life in italics

― Storefront Church (688), Monday, 29 January 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

Have you been to Roslyn, SD? If you do, maybe you could drop by the international vinegar museum and tell us how it went

― Storefront Church (688), Monday, 29 January 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

New Zealand is a great place for this kind of local museum. Mister Monkey and I became quite the connoisseurs when we were there. Many places in New Zealand are "not so much a place, more a state of mind", it turns out. Our two favourites were Akaroa, which has an excellent courthouse diorama, and Russell, which has a great collection of scrimshaw and grisly whaling implements.

The museum in Staithes is brilliant too.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 29 January 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

There's an Immingham Museum, apparently. I've never been, but apparently from the pictures I've seen it has an interesting display of block instruments.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 29 January 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Stornoway Museum is very good, though, if you're in Stornoway. It has a very good reconstruction of an 18th century cottage.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 29 January 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Multiple ILXorz have been to the Bakelite Museum.

I'm also a fan of the Museum of Naval Firepower and Fort Nelson.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

I may squeeze some Bakelite time into my ATP schedule.

― onimo (onimo), Monday, 29 January 2007 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

Which ATP are you going to?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 29 January 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

Dirty Three

― onimo (onimo), Monday, 29 January 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know if it's little enough, but I heart Hull Maritime Museum.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Monday, 29 January 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, me too. xp

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 29 January 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

Hull maritime museum looks cute, but the website is horrible.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

It's not the official website, but Hull City Council's site is knackered and shite.

One of the many joys of living in Hull tho is that we have half a dozen excellent free museums. When the reopen Wilberforce House I will be v. happy.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, me too. xp

Nearer the time we can organise one of those ATP FAPs that always go wrong. Or a Bring Your Own Bakelite party or something.

― onimo (onimo), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

We can stand in the bakelite museum pulling things out of our bags and saying "is this bakelite? Can it go in your museum?"
"No, that's glass."
"What about this?"
"That's plastic."
"This?"
"That's water."

We would be so popular.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/media/joan_bakewell.jpg

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.collphyphil.org/mutter_collection.htm

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

puppet.org/museum/index.shtml

puppet.org/museum/permanent.shtml

puppet.org/museum/spec.shtml

― and what (ooo), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.museumgardenhistory.org/

I saw (the group) AMM once play in there a cpl of years ago, but I took a good look around. xp

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

i've never been, but i've heard it's quite illuminating.

http://www.mum.org/

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.mummersmuseum.com/

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus, more awful websites. Haven't these people heard of Myspace?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

maybe little musuems just don't have the money for good web-design. they all look like 1999.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Myspace has one of the worst interfaces on the web.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

yes

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Oh common, did you look at that MUM one? Much worse than the standard Myspace page.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

i think that guy might be a little "off" though. some sites are pretty accurate reflections of people's brains.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

also, common? What am I saying there?

You are right about Myspace. I can never figure out how to look at my own blog on it, and for some reason when I look at other people's profiles, there's no text down the middle, and everything is flung to the sides of the screen, where I have to scroll from side to side to see it. Rubbish.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

MUM one a lot like myspace.

Back on topic,

The Old station museum in North Woolwich.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

i had a feeling you might suggest that one. i went the year before last, its quite nice. i got the ferry to woolwich afterwards. woolwich wasn't as nice

― Storefront Church (688), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

The Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA. A wonderful, bizarre museum.

― A knife to his wife Eve and his credibility. (goodbra), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus, more awful websites. Haven't these people heard of Myspace?

It would indeed save minutes of time signing up for a uniformly horrible webspace rather than creating it yourself.

― A knife to his wife Eve and his credibility. (goodbra), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

wait a minute, did i go to that jurassic technology one, in LA? it seems v familiar

― Storefront Church (688), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

I welcome comedy old skool web design in the face of the tyranny of boring boring Myspace.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.tmora.org/
http://www.tmora.org/photoTourData/images/tmora_5.jpg

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

Dahesh Museum of Art

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

Santa Cruz Surfing Museum

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

Love to go to the Pink Elephant Antique Mall in Livingston, Il. any of you illinoisers been?

― Storefront Church (688), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

Is there a cutoff for "Little"? Square footage? Stories? Number of rooms? Does it vary by context? See Potter Stewart?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

I went to see the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, but now it has been absorbed by the Science Museum :(

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

You can choose what constitutes little, and i wont tell the others. they wont notice anyhow:)

― Storefront Church (688), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

The Leprosy Museum in Bergen! (http://www.bergen-guide.com/54.htm) Better than it sounds!

― liz (lizg), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

I also got to see the Toaster Museum once. They are still looking for a home.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.nougatsoubeyran.com/htm_en/photo-factory.htm (in montelimar) (it was shut the day we were there)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

The National Atomic Museum is getting a new building in 2009. It used to be pretty small, in sort of a warehouse building at Sandia National Lab in Albuquerque.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

wait a minute, did i go to that jurassic technology one, in LA? it seems v familiar

You sure did, sir. Elvis T., Spencer and I took you there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Beaver County Industrial Museum

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

R Lucky Star Ranch Farm Museum

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

The Museum of Bad Art, in Dedham, Mass. is worth a trip. I like to go when the James Joyce Ramble is held, on a Sunday around Bloomsday. The Ramble is a 10k that has actors dressed in period costumes reading aloud from Ulysses every few blocks along the race route. After the race, Harpoon brewery gives away a lot of free beer. MOBA is in the basement bathrooms of a cool movie theater right in downtown Dedham (and on the race route. FAP, anyone?

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

There's the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and from what I understand, when classes go on field trips there, they're asked to enter into the museum from either of two doors: one labeled as being for people without prejudices, and one for people with them. But if you try to enter through the prejudice-free door, you'll find that it is locked. And then the tour guide will explain to you and the rest of the class that the door is locked because nobody can enter through that door, because we all posess prejudices of one kind or another rolleyes.gif

― ath (ath), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

Then you punch the tour guide in the nuts, right?

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

The Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata!
http://mnae.org/

― patita (patita), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

I saw this thread and somehow knew aldo would have mentioned the Bakelite Museum.

(my plan to attend Dirty Three ATP has come somewhat unstuck due to lack of organisation from other supposedly-interested parties, so I shall have to just ask that someone else please restrain aldo from the bakelite blood circulatory massagey thing. Perhaps you could hire a bakelite pod thing, attach it to the back of the aldo-mobile and smuggle me in that way)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

www.woolaroc.org

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

Gosh, I might have to do MOBA and Gorey in one fell swoop! No beer at the Gorey museum, but I'll make do with my tiny bottle of absinthe.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

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