Based on this book’s introduction, its brief would be to describe 80 from the world‘s "most unusual" museums. That specific qualifying criterion was selected, it highlights, because "we already have several excellent books available about "weird" museums". And within really lies my trouble with it. Getting purposefully highlighted the truth that this book is all about unusual instead of weird museums, and in addition when one really wants to find out about weird museums there are some good books out ther
Based on this book’s introduction, its brief would be to describe 80 from the world’s "most unusual" museums. That specific qualifying criterion was selected, it highlights, because "we already have several excellent books available about "weird" museums". And within really lies my trouble with it. Getting purposefully highlighted the truth that this book is all about unusual instead of weird museums, and in addition when one really wants to find out about weird museums there are some good books available that will let one just do that, it then proceeds to go over 80 museums which are variously weird or interesting but none of them which i could honestly indicate and say "This museum is extremely unusual, although not weird."
These include a museum focused on the Titanic. Is the fact that really unusual? I visited OMSI about eight years back plus they were built with a large exhibit focused on the condemned liner. I did not think "Jeeze! How unusual!" Even though it would be a little creepy they gave a ticket upon entering that bore the a Titanic passenger, and also at the finish you discovered if you would drowned. I survived, my girlfriend at that time tucked in to the cold abyss metaphors abounded.
Another example may be the Salem Witch Museum in Massachusetts. The witch trials in Salem have to do with all it’s renowned for, could it be unusual that the museum there must be focused on it? Not necessarily. May be the museum itself unusual in some manner? Becasue it is the only real museum within the book I have really visited Personally i think obliged to indicate that no, it isn’t particularly unusual. The only real "unusual" museum I have have you been to is most likely the Kafka museum in Prague, that is positively Kafka-esque. I believe a large trouble with it would be that the author patently has not visited most the museums described. The descriptions of each one of the "real" museums reads much like a billboard or perhaps a leaflet in the museum itself, instead of being borne of expertise. There are several solely-online museums too, that have obviously been visited, however their presence frequently appeared a lot more like filler than substance.
When studying Bill Bryson’s descriptions of wandering through obscure museums within the Australian outback in Lower Under I caught the museum bug and rushed to my local museum. Alas, it switched the museum had lately closed for refurbishment and wouldn’t reopen for more than 4 years. But nonetheless, the passion that each museum was described really had an impact on me. This book, regrettably, did not.
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