If You Were to Found a Museum...
 

... what would you like it to be? Would it be an air and space museum? Maybe a museum of modern art? Perhaps a discovery museum for kids?

If I were to start a museum, I'd want it to be a museum of scientific advancement. There could be art—statues, buffs, and paintings—of history's greatest scientists, along with some of their more famous discoveries. We could have a Newtonian wing, where you can see a ball with a known mass and acceleration translate to a demonstrable force and have a giant Newton's cradle clicking back and fourth. And we can have Darwin's Big Adventure, where you can sit in a theater and watch a video about the process of biological evolution and make fun of the creation museum. We could even have guest lectures from some of the leading scientists in the world available to everyone interested in learning.

Now... to win the lottery.

If I found a museum? There's one just down the street from my house. Not hard to find.

The Museum of Craigslist.

A world where the Best Of comes to life, with a rather extensive Hall of Shame.

That's a good one.

A museum of sex? Guess that's been done already.

A museum / Hall of Shame focused on lottery winners and how the vast majority of them managed to spend, waste, lose, and fritter away all the winnings.

It would even have a big tote board that shows the astronomical total of all lottery winnings, just so people could be amazed at the amount of money given to people who won it and flushed it down the toilet...

:eek:

A Snopes-esque Museum of Fallacies and Lies.

There'd be big walls of the biggest hoaxes, lies, and misleading statements throughout history, and extensive research debunking them. There'd be the hall of Politics, devoted to political lies (PolitiFact), a hall of Superstition, where superstitious beliefs like black cats and broken mirrors were tested, a hall of Conspiracy for things like 9/11, the moon landings, Holocaust-deniers, etc., and a few other wings with things like computers where people could sit and see how good they were at spotting phishing emails or obviously false FWD:FWD:FWD emails. There'd even be a whole center area where people could use basic tools to reproduce the 'debunking' done in the other wings on their own.

I like your idea too, Will.. maybe if I win the lottery we can have a skybridge connecting my museum to yours..

It' a deal.

Museum of Electronic Music, or one that tried to portray the evolution of the internet in the most work safe manner possible. sorry 4chan, no room in my museum for you.

A museum of classic movies starting back in the early 1900's to current day, in which it will list how certain shots were set up and various other information about said movie.

I don't really know if it would count as a museum, or just a learning center. But I'll go with it anyway.

Museum of comparative religion. Would show/teach about all sorts of different world religions, histories, interactions, and modern practices.

At the moment I'm eating what was a frozen pizza.
It occurs to me that the history of preserving food might be an interesting display.
frozen foods - canned goods - ?

museum of food sounds good. a place all the great specialties could be honored

Theme parks, thrill rides, haunted houses, vaudeville, burlesque, sideshows, and kittens.

spools of thread

I would build a museum dedicated to ancient world history cause I find it fascinating. Though I think the British Museum pretty much has that one covered already, lol.

Ah, I like that one, Onodrim.

BTW, welcome back. I hope all is well.

Wax Museum, so I can creep people out, even in death...

There's this penis museum in Iceland.....

edit:
Think my wacko eyes fooled me in to reading "If you where to be found in a museum...."

I would probably open a hands-on photography museum where you could learn something useful :)

funny, I posted about this precise idea over in Found on the Net. Not to play "Can You Top This," but honestly, can you top this?

I want to create an interactive art piece of lost mittens and gloves from around Toronto. I'd take each mitten, and label it with the time and place I found it. I'd hang the mittens on a laundry line around an indoor public place such as Union Station. People could participate by offering their found mittens with information, and if anyone found their lost mate, they could take it, pinning in place a "memorial mitten" celebrating the find.

I'd really like to do this one day.