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Ah yes, the Pitt Rivers museum - almost like an
exhibit of what museums were like 100 years ago |
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You could have this as a large warehouse hangar type building, containing a series of very small self-contained museums |
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[poc] that’s an excellent idea, although note that the second rule of
model railways (see link) also applies to museums which contain
detailed models of museums |
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Check out the Natural History Museum in Dublin which we always called the Dead Zoo. This place is a museum of a museum in itself. It's totally unique. I took my students here for drawing exercises every year and ran numerous versions of a project I titled Stilled Lives. |
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The other place I recall as being quite unique was The Hancock Museum in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was a "private museum" meaning there was a small admission charge. (not sure of its status now) I recall many 1950 style desplays showing such delights as how a Belisha Beacon road crossing works. |
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Our state museum used to have little teeny miniatures of
Abe and Mary Todd, and all the usual suspects, dressed in
period fashion and making horseshoes, or something. They
were in glass boxes set into the wall. You had to get onto
this raised walkway to view them. As a little, that was huge.
Usually, mom or dad would hold you up to see. Big plus.
They were still there 22 years later when my daughter was a
little. I held her up and she thought it was super cool. She
loved all things miniature after that. |
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Now that display is all gone, just part of our family's history,
sadly. |
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+ bun for Nostalgia! I think I really am getting old
because I do miss the way things used to be! If I
went to this museum I would dress like I was going
somewhere special, never sneakers and jeans! |
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I was thinking less of model replicas of museums, and more of very small private museums or village museums. The kind that is kept in a shed or small building. When their eccentric collector dies or runs out of money, the entire building and contents could be purchased by the Museum of Museums, and disassembled brick by brick and re-assembled on the MoM site. Just like how buildings are moved to "open air museums" like the Weald & Downland. |
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