Sure you've been to The Met

September 22, 2002 6:40 PM

Sure you've been to The Met, and probably MOMA, but have you made it to The Apple Museum, Mozilla Museum, The Godzilla Museum (King Kong only seems to have a Lost & Found), Video Game Museum, Microsoft Museum, Atair Museum, The Voodoo Museum, The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, Butterfly and Insect Museum, Wooden Nickel Museum, The National Bird Dog Museum, and finally, A Web Ring, for the stranger ones, and a Directory, for the normal ones. Now go get some culture.
posted by Blake (12 comments total)

...and of course Atair = Atari... why can't I ever do anything right...
posted by Blake at 6:42 PM on September 22, 2002

When I was looking for a place to go to college, I got a chance to visit the Apple Library in one of the buildings on the Cupertino campus. This place was a lot like a real life Apple Museum--notable among things I saw there was a black Bell and Howell Apple II, an Apple Lisa 1 with an early prototype keyboard, and a very odd fax machine/all in one device that ran MacOS.

So I guess I have been to the Apple Museum. Months after my visit, however, I heard that Apple gave most or all of the things in the Library to Stanford, so there won't be any more visits.

As exciting as that museum visit was, it was nowhere near as intense as my visit to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. Never go there on a date...
posted by tss at 6:49 PM on September 22, 2002

The funniest (and most educational) museum I've been to recently is the Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota. Mr. Hormel was the first guy to can a ham, way back in the 1890s! Definately worth the trip.
posted by ericableu at 7:32 PM on September 22, 2002

You also forgot MUM. ;)
posted by sanitycheck at 7:58 PM on September 22, 2002

I recently visited, and would urge everyone to check out the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, a sort of meta-museum.
posted by mert at 9:11 PM on September 22, 2002

Check out the Pez Museum in Burlingame, south of San Francisco.
Oh, and prepare your eyes for some putrid colors if you follow that link.
posted by 2sheets at 9:36 PM on September 22, 2002

Coudal's Museum of Online Museums.
posted by sklero at 10:47 PM on September 22, 2002

I just went to see the Microsoft Museum, and I was wondering if anybody was able to read the text that floads across the screen on the Microsoft Timeline.

I mean, speed reading's one thing...
posted by sparehed at 2:12 AM on September 23, 2002

thanks for the link to the Spam museum, ericableu.
Who could resist this:
"Put on hard hats, rubber gloves, hairnets and earplugs - everything you'll need to participate in the simulated SPAM production line. While you're at it, catch a glimpse of the SPAM Ballet. Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime photo opportunity."
Minnesota here I come.
posted by rolo at 2:27 AM on September 23, 2002

i've never been to the Met
posted by tolkhan at 7:26 AM on September 23, 2002

Don't forget the Secret Weapons of Commodore! The unreleased creations of Commodore are at least twice as interesting as Apple's actual products!
posted by nf at 6:59 PM on September 23, 2002

recently visited, and would urge everyone to check out the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, a sort of meta-museum

For those of you who can't get to Los Angeles (or indeed, for those who can) there is an extremely bizarre little book about the extremely bizarre little "museum", Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 7:38 PM on September 23, 2002