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I was distinctly bored the last time we went to the Museum of Scinece and Industry(it bugs me too, X, and I'm from michigan). It was definitely geared tward younger kids, and it just wasn't as interesting as I remember.
Of course, the last time I went I was trying not to throw up all over the floor.
If the Museum of Science and Industry is geared towards kids, then why did it scare me so much? Seriously, I hate that place. Too many bad memories. The giant heart that you could walk through TERRIFIED me. I had nightmares of that thing. The coal train, too. And my Brownie troop went on an outing there, and I had an "accident", and it was mortifying. And the whole place is creepy, unlike the Field Museum, which is beautiful, and soothing to just sit in. The only thing I ever liked about the MSI was the baby chick incubators, the acoustics thingy, and the Titanic exhibit they had a few years ago. And the best thing about that last one was the iceberg. That was neat!
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They've also redone the museum in the last couple of years. They still have the same classic exhibits, but they added some new cooler ones. I think its a good museum. Tom and I have always been partial to science museums, though, and I have many fond family memories going there and getting ice cream from the Soda Shoppe and getting our picture taken in the old car. I was scared by the coal mine when I was younger, but I loved it as a kid and we went almost every year. Its not a must-see museum, though, like the Art-Institute.
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Yeah, Rivka can go Sunday, so if any of you non church-goers wanted to do an outing with her then, I'm sure it would be a lot of fun.
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quote: Perhaps we can ask the Art Museum to bring the best pieces to her.
See, now that would actually be a problem TOO.
Sunday sounds good. And worst case, if that doesn't work out, I was planning on wandering Chicago part of Monday and Tuesday. (My flight out isn't until Tuesday night.)
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The Picasso sculpture at the Daley Center is currently barricaded off for plaza rehab stuff. I walked through there today on my way to the train after work. You can still see it and maybe get pictures (albeit with panels of chainlink fencing and piles of marble bricks in front), but you can no longer get up close and personal.
The Miro across the street next to Chicago Temple is finally unobstructed again after last autumn's fire at the Cook County Admin building next door (well, at least now since the last time I'd been through there almost 6 months ago)
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