Throwback Thursday: Interesting park/museum you've recently been to?

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It's Thursday!

I was recently in Omaha, Nebraska visiting my daughter and her family. As I was looking around downtown, I came across Pioneer Heritage park. It is pretty darn neat! Has massive bronze statutes. Actually, the two sculpture parks combine to form one of the largest bronze sculptures in the world. The park begins with a wagon train heading west, causing a herd of bison to stampede. The bison emerge onto Dodge Street, where they flush a flock of Canada geese. Some of the geese are on street corners, attached to buildings. Others even inside of a glass side of a building.

Sooooo, what interesting/fun park or museum have you recently been to?

Let’s make it a great Thursday!
KGM

[Dan Breyen]

Minneapolis has a sculpture garden.  among its variety of art is the popular Spoonbridge and Cherry

[Ram Kumar Aravindakshan _Adaptavist_]

I went to the Auckland Museum in New Zealand some time ago. It has some pretty nice sculptures and historical items.

[Andy Gladstone]

This past summer my family hiked the Continental Divide in Hoosier Pass National Forest. The views were amazing, and the memories will hold us forever.

[John Funk]

Not really a park or a museum, but took a tour of the Opera House in Muscat, Oman a couple of weeks ago. And then stayed a night in a 500 year old village in the mountains of Oman

[Dave Mathijs]

Shame on me, I rarely visit a park or museum.

But I do have fond memories of my city trip to Rome in 2018 where we visited the Musei Capitolini and the Musei Vaticani, very impressive.

[Dave Mathijs]

@Andy Gladstone Such a lovely family picture, great to see you all together!

[Holly Scott]

Took my dad, daughter, and granddaughter to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman, OK last year for a small installation by another local art company (similar to Meow Wolf). Also, in 2021 I went on a solo trip to Meow Wolf in Santa Fe. I love seeing/being in immersive art.

[Dan Breyen]

I guess I need to type longer to get credit, so here goes.  If you want an amazing place to visit in the US, head out to South Dakota and make sure to go to Badlands National Park.  You can go hiking and view the amazing views of the landscape.

And you're very close to the visiting the famous 'Wall Drug'.  AND as long as you're at it, you might as well make the trifecta and head west to see Devils Tower in Wyoming. 

Keep an eye out for the prairie dogs!

 

[Barbara Szczesniak]

Nowadays for me, park means Disneyworld (I'm a passholder). I think my most recent visit was to Epcot.

As far as a museum, I think my last was also the Vatican Museums on a trip to Rome in 2016.

[Michael Kerr]

Does golf course count?  View in Coronado, CA.

[Chrissy Clements]

So, not exactly a museum, but I’m lucky enough to live next to Earl Hill Conservation Park, and it’s been my recent go-to! 55 hectares of pure Aussie nature bliss. Think birds serenading you, lizards doing their thing, and even the occasional wallaby hopping by to say hello. 🦘

I swear it’s like stepping into a live-action nature doco every time I head out. Beats any museum exhibit, hands down. Anyone else love getting out into nature?

[Liz Tanner]

LA has some of the weirdest and coolest museums that are free on certain days with an LA library card (that non-residents can get!) and/or your ID. I am equidistant between Griffith to the north and LACMA + Tar Pits to my south. I play Pokemon with other entirely grown adults.

There is no shame in me like there is my compadres, though. I regularly play on the playground there. I'm old but short so sometimes I blend.

[Kristján Geir Mathiesen]

Thanks for all your comments. Fun to read :) 

Sounds amazing, @Chrissy Clements !

[John Funk]

@Dan Breyen - I was at both of them about 3 years ago. Very cool places. 

[Laurie Sciutti]

Visited the Uffizi in Florence this past June. It was spectacular!

[vikram]

Hi @Kristján Geir Mathiesen 

Now I am in Leuven, Belgium(very clam beautiful city) came for office work for 3 months and 

I visited Town Hall or City Centrum which is Beautiful to see. 

It is always cool here compared to India (where I live) and pollution free city, people are so fit, people prefer to walk or ride bike (bicycle) which makes them fit by physically and the wheather mentally. 

I Love this city very much.  

Vikram P

[Cas Renooij]

On Amsterdam Rembrandtplein, there was a bronze version or Remprandts famous Nightwatch painting. 

Unfortunately it's not there anymore. 

[Daria Kulikova]

One of the parks/museums that impressed me recently is Wilanów Park in Warsaw. Beautiful territory to walk around and the museum :)

[Ram Kumar Aravindakshan _Adaptavist_]

The funny thing is I've visited Museums overseas, but I've never visited the one so close to my house :-)

[Brant Schroeder]

Hells Canyon Park, it is an oasis in a dry and arid area of Hells Canyon.  They irrigate it from the snake river so it is green and beautiful.

  

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

In April my daughter relocated to Portland, OR.  I got the honor of driving the UHaul from Denver. I stayed an extra day after helping to unpack.  We explored the https://omsi.edu/ Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.  Was well worth the visit, highly recommend it.

[Valerie Knapp]

I visited with a friend some years ago the Communications History Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was super neat, chronicling their pony express for the delivery of mail all the way through computers used in communications. There were some huge mainframe computers with great big switches, levers and buttons. Truly a nerd's paradise. I just read that it's sadly closed now. I hope they really do move it and that it's not closed forever.