[UC#3] Ladies and Gents – while we curate the exciting venues for our tour, I think it important to have a list of venues that we have visited but might want to exclude from our tour. I offer up the following museum That I found fascinating and recommended to several people, but everyone (including my family) found this to be the worst museum. Foucault’s original pendulum, Pascal’s first calculator….
As a Board, should we keep broad appeal in mind when we try to schedule venues – or should we keep the venues eclectic and just charge a high tour fee targeted to compensate for low demand? I’d be interested in hearing ‘worst museum’ stories.
Musée des Arts et Métiers – Wikipedia
The original Foucault pendulum
Clément Ader’s Avion III
CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65046
By PHGCOM – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4668683
UC#1 Weighs In
So many things to work on right now! Africa adventures, learning how to avoid facial recognition, installing a new sound system at our church. I’ll have to bow out of the museum discussion for now as I have nothing to contribute. This stems, of course, from my fear of museums – every time I get near one, I think they are going to keep me.
[ed. note: as part of our corporate employee assistance, we are analyzing UC#1’s fear of museums. At this point in our research, we encountered some conflicting information. One site claims that Musophobia as the fear of museums.]
[But the word Musophobia is most often associated with a fear of mice. We weren’t afraid of mice prior to seeing this picture, but we are now.]
UC#4’s Response to UC#3’s Inquiry
UC#2, in keeping with the Oktoberfest theme, would a Wurst museum fall into this category? The worst Wurst museum?
I personally would enjoy this museum. Many years ago, [spousal unit] and I went to Museum of Weights and Standards in (I think) Boulder. I was hoping to see the unit-teaspoon (not there, unfortunately) but they had a lot of cool stuff about the (relatively new) atomic clock and WWV.
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Many factors go into WLBOTT destination recommendations.
Most factors are based on graft, kickbacks, pay-to-play, quid pro quos, payola[1], etc.
However, a major factor is the quantity, quality, and proximity to buffets. I would imagine the museum in Paris would get a check in this department. (If all-you-can-eat, quantity serves as its own quality[2])
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[1]How did people get kick-backs prior to 1950?
WLBOTT Genesis: The Museum Connection
“Is that a true story?”
“Well, it’s true that its a story.”
– No Country for Old Men
In the beginning, the Internet was a formless, shapeless, chaotic, barren, amorphous, hardscrabble void.
People would ask each other, “you got any URLs?”
Mosaic and Netscape were as forbidden at IBM as any talk of unionization.
People thought “Ask Jeeves” was pretty cool (and it was).
And then arose WLBOTT, bringing order to the chaos.
One of the original motivators of WLBOTT was the desire to research the SPAM Museum in Austin, Minnesota. Not only did the destination share the same name as the city-of-residence as UC#4, but a single mighty interstate (IH35) connected the two, and it can be driven in one NODOZE-fulled road trip.
