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| Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 03:30 pm |
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Fuller
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How 'bout a section, "Museums". Most everyone on here likes to travel, seems like. It could be a place to discuss places visited; museums, galleries and other points of interest. It would be fun to hear about cool places people have been to. Was it worth their time and travel? Informed docents/tour guides available while visiting? This could be a world wide discussion. We've got members all over and so just hearing about what's neat locally to them would be interesting. Might help plan out some future travels.
Just a thought.
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| Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 04:17 pm |
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ole
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Super idea, Fuller!
I'll lead off by recommending the Lincoln Museum and Archives in Springfield, Illinois. The Museum is well worth a day. It is not your basic museum; it pushes the limits of what we've all come to see as standard.
Impressive movies in different theaters. Recorded speeches. In one area you can listen to parts of debates, walk around a corner and you're listening to the First Inaugural. Some kind of tricky playing with accoustics: although the previous speech is still playing around the corner, you can't hear it -- turn another corner and you're listening to something entirely different.
Mary Lincoln's dresses and mannequins so lifelike that you have to stare at them for a while to make sure that they're not real people standing or sitting motionless.
Not far out of town is New Salem; a recreation of the town where Lincoln spent a few of his early years. This is worth another day. During the summer they have craftspeople demonstrating soap making, candle making, weaving, spinning .... just doing the things that would take up the long days of ordinary surviving.
If you're travelling through flyover country, you simply must take a couple of days to stop over. Did I mention that Lincoln's home is still there? And his law office? And the state house?
And tell Bama you're there. I'll bet he'd be glad to see y'all.
Next stop: Bardstown, Kentucky.
ole
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| Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 05:31 pm |
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Fuller
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That would be great to get Joe's approval to move this to a new Forum topic.
That sounds like an interesting stop Ole. I, for one, would listen to what you would say is worth the time to visit.
Exactly what I am looking for, ideas on great places to stop if anyone is in the area.
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| Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 05:33 pm |
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Fuller
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Sorry, I started my first post and then was interrupted. Susan added her thoughts before I could get back to my original thought. Thanks for your sites you mentioned Susan!
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| Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 06:29 pm |
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TimK
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I think this forum topic is really a good idea. I am driving from my home in Denver to Milwaukee next month and have already planned on visiting Springfield. Thanks, ole, for giving me a heads up as to how much time I should plan for.
As for my two cents - I think the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center and the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis are two great places to visit if you are down Shiloh way.
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| Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 06:55 pm |
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Kernow-Ox
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Here in Oxford we probably have the best museum in the world: the imcomparable Pitt Rivers < http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/ >
It's like a grand junk shop as you can just lose yourself in it and dart from curio to curio. Everytime I go in I find something new, as rather than be arranged chronologically or geographically the collection is laid out thematically, and the haphazard arrangement of the cabinets adds to its mystique. You'll be looking at smoking parapenalia from across the globe, turn your head, and end up looking at models of ships, or obscure musical instruments, or magical charms. Most of stuff still has the original handwritten Victorian labels too. Of course, the highlight of any trip is saying hello to the shrunken heads: never ask where they are as it's always more fun to stumble across them.
Spurious ACW angle to bring it all on topic? In the display showing the evolution of firearms I recently spent a long time looking at an 1853 Enfield, and then at a minie ball.
Last edited on Tue May 13th, 2008 06:58 pm by Kernow-Ox
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| Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 09:02 pm |
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Bama46
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The Abe museum is pretty cool for a yankee museum, that is.
Susan is right, the Confederate Relic Room is top drawer. I loved my time there. Appomattox has a very nice museum located upstairs in the visitors center. I have never seen a NPS museum that was not top notch. Pay particular attention to the cases at Chicasmauga dedicated to the vandalism that occurs there. The Tennessee River museum in Savannah is cool, but Pope's Tavern in Florence, Alabama is my favorite of all time. It was a stop on the Jackson Military road, and a favorite of his. It was both a Union and Confederate hospital in the war and has very interesting artifacts along with a delightful lady to explain is detail, anything you might want to see.
Another good one is the Illinois Military Museum at Camp Lincoln in Springfield, IL. It is the repository of Gen Santa Anna's leg!
ED
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| Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 09:23 pm |
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javal1
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Just got out of class. Have to do trivia yet, plus homework and a test for tomorrow. If I get time I'll open it tonight. If not - tomorrow.
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| Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 10:20 pm |
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javal1
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OK - should now see it in "Civil War Talk" just below preservation category. Kindly copy and paste your posts from here to there, and I'll then delete them here. Enjoy...
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| Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 11:20 pm |
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| Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 12:30 am |
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Doc C
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National Museum of Health and Medicine in D.C. Not only great for civil war medicine but military medicine dating back to the time of the Greeks to modern day batttle field medicine i.e. robotics. IMHO one of the best and undiscovered gems of D.C. museums.
Doc C
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| Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 10:54 pm |
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javal1
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A new category for non-Civil War museums has also been added in The Lounge
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| Posted: Sun May 18th, 2008 06:26 pm |
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browner
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good idea Fuller. Loved the Reagan Library also.
Kernow-Ox, looking forward to checking Oxford out in the future. Just saved that site for the museum.
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