Indiana has had a
State Museum for a long time now. It spent a long time housed -- somewhat awkwardly -- in the old City Hall (after the city government had gone Unigov and slunk off down the block and across Market Street to roost in the City-County Building) until getting a bespoke building along White River State Park, wedged in between the
Eiteljorg and
NCAA's Hall of Champions. Like many such museums, it's a great mess of natural history, cultural history, political history, archeology and art, fussed into coherence by a dedicated band of curators. They run a nice Imax theatre, too, one of the first in the city.
The Data Viking visited yesterday and he and Tam and I spent half the day or more in the museum:
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| Mind Control! |
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| People used to paint caves after nightmares like this, you know. |
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| "I for one--" No. No, I do not welcome our armored-squid overlords. Oh hells no. |
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| This kitty would fit right in at my house -- especially if it brought enough wild hog to share. |
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| Surprisingly, this was not made the State motto. |
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| Used to be in my boss's boss's boss's office. Unsurprisingly, he was Don Burton. |
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| Fuzzy image but it turns out one of my friends used to use this mike at work -- not one like it, this one. |
An interesting time was had by all, including a couple of (45-minute) documentaries in the Imax
Interesting when you 'see' those pieces in the museum isn't it... :-)
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