Miscellaneous Monday - Most recent Museum visited?
It is Monday, let us all rejoice!
This weekend my wife and I took our five children to the Spyscape Museum in NYC. The two of us had been there in 2020 (remember that dumpster fire?) and always wanted our kids to experience it. The magical confluence of Passover, Easter and Ramadan meant that the museum were open and the lines were short.
If you have never been to a Spyscape, you have to add it to your list of places to visit when in NYC (unless there is one in a city closer to you). It's an immersive experience all about the history and art of spycraft, espionage, deception, code-cracking and hacking that leads you through both mental and physical challenges to determine where your fit would be in the Intelligence (or Counter-intelligence) operations field.
As you finish the tour you are presented your Spy role with a summary of all of your scores. Seeing how each of my children (and my wife) matched up was both eye-opening and re-affirming!
My role, should I choose to accept it, would be:
Don't worry, I won't be following anyone around at Team '23 (or maybe that's what a spy would say...)
Your Mission should you Choose to Accept It:
Monday in NYC most of the Museums are closed. So fill the gap by sharing a recent museum experience you enjoyed in the thread below. Let us know what your recommendations are so we can add them to our itineraries when visiting the cities you experienced them in.
Have a great week!
Edit: Here is a Trello Board that tracks all of the locations mentioned in the comments. Click on Map View to see the geographic dispersion of the recommendations.
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During our recent family trip to Washington, DC, we visited so many museums. My favorites were the National Portrait Gallery, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the National Air and Space museum. It was really neat to see the presidential portraits in person. We visited over Presidents' Day weekend, so the children's area had some fun activities too!
We have some wonderful museums here in Milwaukee, WI, but I loved that the museums in DC were free and so accessible to everyone!
The last museum we went to is James Cameron's private museum at Lightstorm Studio (my sister works there).
All the Titanic memorabilia (the car, the scale model of the ship, the scale model of the sunken ship, the necklace, the Oscar...) was my favorite, but there was also stuff from the Terminator franchise, the Abyss, and of course Avatar. An incredibly special experience!
About a month ago I went to the latest exhibit in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts/Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal on A History of Women in Design.
Here were a few of the beautiful pieces on display.
This year, I bought a museum membership, and it's more than paid for itself by how many times I've gone to see special exhibits, special events, and also taken visitors there.
It's a great museum if you ever come to Montreal and appreciate art!
I visited with my family the Finnish Aviation Museum to celebrate my birthday. In addition to the large collection of decommissioned airplanes and related stuff, you can try a real flight simulator with a trainer - we chose Airbus A330. Great fun :)
Here is one sample of the exhibition:
The Vasa Museum!
