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I think this is a wonderful idea. It doesn't exist, but I think it would be great. Imagine: a museum dedicated to replicas of doors of all kinds; famous doors, doors to famous doors, fictional doors from books and television and movies... all of which are full functional and intended to be gone through.
They would be arranged like a museum in sections (magic doors, ancient doors, modern doors, sci fi doors etc) and also like a maze with rooms- you go through one door and enter a room with doors of similar kinds. They you pick another door and go through- it's not just a museum, it's an adventure playground. The idea of endless doors is so magical to me because it's full of possibilities.
Some doors and doorways I thought of:
The Ghiberti Doors The Wardrobe from the the Lion the Witch and the The most spectacular revolving door ever, whatever that may be. Traitor's Gate. The doors to the elevators in the Empire State Building. One of the Enterprise (the ship, not the show) doors. A submarine hatch. Dumbledore's Door A Stargate ('cause how cool would that be? )
But I need your help for a story I want to write, incorporating this Door Museum idea of mine. I want you to tell me which doors you would love to see in a door museum. These can be doors that catch your imagination, doors that are beautiful, doors that are famous, doors that featured in a famous historical or fictional event- however ordinary they may seem.
I would enjoy going through a series of door from all of the various Star Treks (although if the doors are the same in Voyager and Next Generation, for example, I'd only need one of them.
I'd want to go through a Robert E. Heinlein-style dilating door.
I'd want to go through the Tom Baker Era's TARDIS's doors (though how you'd pull that one off I don't know, since they'd have to be flimsy seeming little wooden things from one side and massive white circularly-coffered doors on the other side.
I'd like to go through the trapdoor under the rug in the house in Zork.
I'd like to go through Morphius' three gates in Gaiman's Sandman series.
I'd like to go through the "Speak, Friend, and Enter" door into Khazad Dum.
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It's fun to go through expensive subdivisions and look at the doors. You can tell a lot about the class of a house by what kind of door they put on it.
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I'd like to go through the original Thapae Gate in Chiang Mai.
I'd like to go through The Lion's Gate of Mycenae.
I'd like to walk under Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate in Millenium Park. I went to look at it last summer, but it was mostly enshrouded in scaffolding and tarps, unfortunately. Gorgeous thing, I have to say.
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The most famous Door I've ever seen is the Door of Paradise on the Baptistry in Florence. Very beautiful too.
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Erm, and I would SO go to a door museum. Especially if it was a collection of fictional and real, fun and informative. Sounds cool Posts: 3636 | Registered: Oct 2001
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I once knew someone who collected doorknobs. That was kind of an interesting collection, but this would be much more so.
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How about the doors in "The Lady or the Tiger?"?
quote:The criminal could not know out of which door would come the lady: he opened either he pleased, without having the slightest idea whether, in the next instant, he was to be devoured or married.
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Yeah, I was hoping that in then end, he'd open the lady door first and then open the tiger door and have the tiger eat the lady. Of course, in my version, the lady would have done something to deserve her fate, like cruelty to tigers.
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Perhaps one of the happy doors from the Hitchhiker's Guide?
Or else the door from Alice in Wonderland; ya know, the one with the speaking doorknob ("Feed Your head")
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*Spoilers for the 3rd book in A Song of Ice and Fire* . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I would love to go through the door in the cavern under the wall that Coldhands steers Sam to, and that Bran & company pass through.
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1. The Gates of Babylon 2. the magical doorway in the Weaver's Cottage. 3. The entrance to Dexter's Laboratory (password identification please) mostly because the dimensions of this particular door seem to be variable.
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Ack! That's exactly what I opened up this thread to add. It took me two whole days to think of that Posts: 3636 | Registered: Oct 2001
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Door to the Pyramid Door/Entrance Way at Stonehenge Door to many European Cathedrals, Milan, Notre Dame come to mind. Would the Brandenberg Gate--the door through the Berlin Wall-- count? Oh, and Dumble-dore is not a door.
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Woo, so many ideas! It makes me happy that so many people think it's a great idea. I wish I had the skills and means (anyone got a couple of million lying around?) to actually, literally, physically build such a museum.
quote:the door through the Berlin Wall
You mean Checkpoint Charlie or actually the Brandenburg Gate? The Brandenburg Gate is huge, but would count. A reproduction of Checkpoint Charlie also counts- and would be AWESOME.
Most of your doors and gates I had to look up. Some made me feel stunningly behind in my reading/watching.
quote:Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate
I'm not sure about the real practicality of reproducing such a cool gate, but it's an incredible thing. I will have to go to Chicago to visit it. Wow.
quote:Or else the door from Alice in Wonderland
That's a great suggestion- a very important door.
quote:2. I have no idea how, but the brick wall to Diagon Alley.
Perhaps just a brick wall would be sufficient . Oh, so evil.
quote:Door to the Pyramid
This would be very cool. You could pick a specific pyramid or tomb (or many of them and reproduce their doors and entrance corridors all connected like a dark underground maze.
Sigh.
quote:A super-fast-closing Death Star blast door would be good too.
Warning: Use this door at your own risk. O.o.
And- hee hee to the people who are punning.
If you have more ideas- keep 'em coming. I'm taking notes .
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The battleroom gate. We'll put it on the floor, so people can get that "enemy's gate is down" feeling. Posts: 1592 | Registered: May 2000
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The Magic Kingdom at Disney World used to have one of Thomas Jefferson's doors in the Colonial Square area--well, actually, they still do, but they removed the plaque identifying it as such. See, people used to pick off splinters, flecks of paint, whatever. So eventually, they removed the plaque so nobody would know.
The moral: people suck.
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quote:2. I have no idea how, but the brick wall to Diagon Alley.
Perhaps just a brick wall would be sufficient . Oh, so evil.
The Cloud Gate is definitely worth the trip to Chicago to see (and of course there is also lots of other great sculpture to be seen in Chicago). Even the bit of it that I was able to see--one end of the bean wasn't tarped off when I was there--was staggeringly impressive. I think I could spend all day sitting and looking at the full thing.
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The Cloud Gate is really neat. I was close-up to it only at night, which was still awesome, but I would love to be able to spend some time there during the day.
quote:1. A largish flatscreen display made into the fat lady from Hogwarts would be cool. She couldn't interact, but still...
Sure she could. Have a tiny webcam mounted in the frame and an actor backstage somewhere. You probably would only have it "live" during weekends and busy times, but what a great job for a couple of acting students to rotate through. Sit there in full costume, reading a book or knitting, or talking on the phone to your friends, and look up when people show up and pretend like they're bothering you wanting to go through. Demand the password and give them a hard time for awhile, then roll your eyes and say "Oh alright" and hit a button which unlocks the door and lets the monitor swing forward. It would be awesome!
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