Monday, July 24, 2006
Last weekend I was able to knock off two museums from my to-do list.
The New York Transmit Museum was great. It only takes a couple hours to see this museum in Brooklyn. You learn all about how the subway systems were built and how they have changed over the past 100 years. There are lots of old photographs, turnstiles, models, and stories to read. The entire museum is itself an old subway station. You can go down to where the tracks are and see old trains parked on them. Very well done.
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I also went to the American Museum of Natural History mostly to see this special exhibit on Darwin. The exhibit was good and very interesting, I knew most of the information already. More interesting than the theory and evidence of evolution was learning about Darwin himself and his travels.
A few pictures from the museum
The New York Transmit Museum was great. It only takes a couple hours to see this museum in Brooklyn. You learn all about how the subway systems were built and how they have changed over the past 100 years. There are lots of old photographs, turnstiles, models, and stories to read. The entire museum is itself an old subway station. You can go down to where the tracks are and see old trains parked on them. Very well done.
Click here for all the pictures
I also went to the American Museum of Natural History mostly to see this special exhibit on Darwin. The exhibit was good and very interesting, I knew most of the information already. More interesting than the theory and evidence of evolution was learning about Darwin himself and his travels.
A few pictures from the museum