Post by soulhalshall on Apr 23, 2022 18:20:20 GMT
What are your top three museums?
Museums have a bit of a bad reputation in your head at some times of your life, I think, and sometimes that reputation drips from enough people's heads to make the idea of museums boring in general. Part of the problem is rubbish museums or unplanned school trips. Rubbish museums can be hard to define because if you are dead keen on something you may find a museum interesting however poorly laid out it is, so I suppose a really good museum could be one which surprises you or interests you in something you may not have previously known about. Or you could have other ideas about what makes one good. Here are mine, not in a particular order.
1. Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne. A place where you can touch and climb and go in loads of big, cool trains. I wonder now whether my choices are also based on my children's experiences and if that's fair. Anyway.
2. County Kerry Museum in Tralee. We went there last week, the quality of display surprised us, lots to touch, multi-sensory back-in-time section bit like scary Jorvik in York, and a moving display created by children living in direct provision in Ireland.
3. War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo. An affecting and very simple museum in which children's belongings, diaries, thoughts - predominantly from 90s conflict in the Balkans - are presented. Without tanks and guns it depicts the misery suffered the innocent in these ridiculous wars.
Museums have a bit of a bad reputation in your head at some times of your life, I think, and sometimes that reputation drips from enough people's heads to make the idea of museums boring in general. Part of the problem is rubbish museums or unplanned school trips. Rubbish museums can be hard to define because if you are dead keen on something you may find a museum interesting however poorly laid out it is, so I suppose a really good museum could be one which surprises you or interests you in something you may not have previously known about. Or you could have other ideas about what makes one good. Here are mine, not in a particular order.
1. Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne. A place where you can touch and climb and go in loads of big, cool trains. I wonder now whether my choices are also based on my children's experiences and if that's fair. Anyway.
2. County Kerry Museum in Tralee. We went there last week, the quality of display surprised us, lots to touch, multi-sensory back-in-time section bit like scary Jorvik in York, and a moving display created by children living in direct provision in Ireland.
3. War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo. An affecting and very simple museum in which children's belongings, diaries, thoughts - predominantly from 90s conflict in the Balkans - are presented. Without tanks and guns it depicts the misery suffered the innocent in these ridiculous wars.
