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Museum's Adults-Only Nights Show That Alcohol and Science Are a Good Mix
BarbaraHudson writes Museums and science centers are finding that science nights with bar service are quite popular with the public. "Organizer Merissa Scarlett said almost every science center across Canada opts for adults-only nights, where visitors can explore exhibits with an alcoholic drink in hand. It's also a trend taking off in many museums, including the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, where nights dubbed Nature Nocturne transform the building into a multi-stage bar and club."
The bar is probably spendy. I wonder if i can tote in a 40?
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Private parties amongst the relics.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/nov/08/davidhencke
We create programming that's more oriented toward adults," he said, adding that this has included the chance to dissect a pig's heart.
I mean nothing like giving people who have had a few a knife and telling them to have at it.
well, Degas looks better right before closing time.
A trap for those who don't believe in science, of course. What better way to attract the ignorant and unthoughtful than offer booze? A few drinks in and all the heathenism begins to make sense.
Have gnu, will travel.
I've never understood the appeal of museums. They are the most boring place in the world to be dragged to. It's not like you can learn anything or interact with anything there. It's like people are afraid to admit they are boring because they are afraid to appear uncultured. Does anyone honestly enjoy museums?
It depends on if you're genuinely interested in the subject being presented. For me, modern art? No thanks - total snore-fest. I'd probably enjoy most any sort of science or tech themed museum though. Museums are also more fun if you make it part of an evening out, and are with someone you enjoy spending time with.
You should read the article. Patrons talked about being able to build a mini mars rover, creating a bubble that you can stand inside, and a number of other interactive, entertaining, and educational activities. Science and tech museums are often a lot more interactive than the traditional museums you're imagining where you just walk around and look at stuff in static displays. It sounded like fun to me.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
City Museum of St. Louis: Open to midnight Friday and Saturday with bar service. Thrills, Chills, and Lawsuits.
Drinks, food, talks by naturalists, guided tours of exhibits, followed by bands playing in the Hall of Mammals (nothing like seeing a band like Deerhoof in front of a mastedon) :
http://www.nhm.org/site/activi...
Been going on for a number of years and is very popular.
If your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd murder you in your sleep
Not true. My wife's MIT Alumni club brought Dr. Peter Diamandis in for a discussion on the X-Prize Foundation, and it was fully catered with open bar at the local science museum, which was partially open for exploration. Good time. Good enough that Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson crashed the party, with a couple of attractive grad students in-tow.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
There are plenty of captionless bits of ironmongery about I'll agree. So the intelligent visitor uses Wikepedia to start with then has some context, jargon and grounding...
Now find a curator and see if you can leverage your little fulcrum of knowledge against their lever of knowledge. When you've done this a couple of times (asked to see inside, asked how did the sizobells get the stuff to the twinkychute) you'll know exactly (a) how to get the most out of a museum and (b) give the curators the buzz of the one in thirty visitors who has a brain and asks such obvious questions they've never been asked like that before. A parking-lot of stuff isn't a museum but a basement of curious carvings can (in the right hands) be an electric delight.
I can verify that visiting the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago after a few toots is nothing but a blast. Get a few of your friends, pass around a liter of vodka in the parking lot and go straight to the gigantic model train set on the first floor. Don't miss the huge pendulum in the stairway and the tours of the German U-Boat and coal mine. Also the "whispering booth" parabolic sound mirrors. If it's spring time, go visit the formal Japanese garden just a few blocks from the museum. When your done, walk West along the plaisance until you get to Laredo Taft's spooky-ass "Fountain of Time" sculpture at the far end of the Midway. Then you can go up to Ribs'n'Bibs on 53rd street for the most magnificent burnt ends or hot links you've ever tasted.
Best drunk museum experience ever. Highly recommended. Way back in the day I went there on 'shrooms and it was also quite fun.
Of course, all that stuff is behind me now, but thankfully my memory is still pretty...um... ...what was I talking about?
You are welcome on my lawn.
One need not be an alcoholic to enjoy alcohol.
Who hasn't seen people stoned out of their gourd waiting in line for the Laserium show?
they should allow pot.
One of the coolest things I ever got to do during my stint at HP was dinner and drinks at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History as a private event. Various buffets and bars scattered around the museum. Had no idea you could rent the Smithsonian like that.
Martini bar at the Hope Diamond? How freakin' cool is that?!
Science North and Dynamic Earth in Sudbury, Ontario does this every couple of months. And they are themed. First one I went to at Science North was themed for mixology, and it show cased the science behind mixing things together.
The cool thing about them is that they are catered, so there was food available for purchase, there is alcohol(beer, wine, spirits), there are some shows in the theatre in the middle of the upper floors, and you get to enjoy the exhibits WITHOUT CHILDREN PRESENT!(greatest part ever!!)