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Science, Technology, Natural History Museums?

beadfulthings writes "An unexpected windfall has enabled my husband and me to plan a road trip next year. He's expressed a wish to visit some good science, technology, and natural history museums along the way. Of course it's easy to obtain a long list of them via Google, but I'd like some insight and input. What does your area or city in the US or Canada have in the way of science museums? Are they worth traveling to visit? Do you have any particular favorite exhibits or 'must see' recommendations? This man was brought up in Philadelphia and apparently spent most of his boyhood and adolescence at the Franklin Institute and its Fels Planetarium, so I guess that would be his 'gold standard.' I grew up going to the Smithsonian. Any area of science, math, technology, natural history, or even industrial stuff would be fair game. I think we'll probably want to miss out on the 'creation science' stuff."

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  1. Re:Indy Children's Museum by geekoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Black Single Male Elephant?

    yes, I know.

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  2. Re:Pirates!! by geekoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I jsut assumedn you meant the sports team.

    Pirates(the fashonable movie pirates) are awesome...but I think there done for a while. ZOmbies, to.

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  3. Unexpected windfall by monkeySauce · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    An unexpected windfall has enabled my husband and me to plan a road trip next year

    So grandpa finally kicked the bucket, eh? Why don't you think about what he would have liked to spend the money on? Maybe find a young, hot gold digger and shower her with money. Maybe you'll get a threesome out of it. After that, if you're still hung up on this museum thing you can all go check out the Erotic Heritage Museum. I'm sure grandpa would approve.