A continuation of yesterpost...
The American Enterprise exhibit showcases inventions and advertisements from the past 200+ years of American history (though not everything is from America!).
One display shows how American products are adapted for other cultures or by other cultures. McDonalds has franchises everywhere, including Japan.
A Turkish food maker decided to take on Coca-Cola with their own cola that appealed to "positive nationalism." Turkey must have some better local beverage than soda, right?
Home computers became popular in the late 1970s when microprocessor became small enough and cheap enough to be affordable. The museum has an Altair 8800 and a TRS-80, along with a Superman comic touting the value of computers!
I found another display of kitchen devices featuring a refrigerator.
Items on display go all the way back to Eli Whitney's cotton gin, an engine that enabled growers to get the seeds out of cotton easily, making the crop much more profitable.
I took our youngest into the Wonderplace, an interactive exhibit aimed at preschoolers up to first graders. He enjoyed exploring and using his imagination.
We walked through the On the Water exhibit and the America on the Move exhibit. The kids were getting hungry, so we didn't see too much. The exhibit focuses on vehicles used in the past 200 or so years.
On our way to the basement cafeteria for lunch, we found a Lego Statue of Liberty! The replica is nine feet, five and a half inches tall. The actual statue is 151.1 feet tall. It was shipped to the United States in 350 pieces that were put together over seven months. The Lego statues has approximately 25,375 pieces and took 292 hours to construct.
After lunch, we went upstairs to see more items. I was surprise to see Felicia Day's costume from her web series The Guild. The show was a spoof of The Office with the co-workers being people who play an online clone of World of Warcraft. They are all members of a guild within the game but they meet each other in real life, causing comedic situations.
An upstairs exhibit has a display of musical instruments. One side display shows various instruments used by jazz musicians. Another has a set of stringed instruments crafted by Stradivarius.
The big draw on the third floor is a pair of the ruby slippers from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The display shows stills from the movie and how the museum has preserved the pair of slippers they have.
The filmmakers had several different pairs of slippers made and this particular pair is a mismatched set. The display challenges visitors to find difference between the two but the only difference I saw was the bows were a little different.
The museum has a lot of other exhibits. We only saw about half and may go back again someday.
The American Enterprise exhibit showcases inventions and advertisements from the past 200+ years of American history (though not everything is from America!).
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| Ads outside the exhibit |
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| Seatbelt-safety ads featuring talking crash test dummies won awards! |
One display shows how American products are adapted for other cultures or by other cultures. McDonalds has franchises everywhere, including Japan.
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| Japanese McDs! |
A Turkish food maker decided to take on Coca-Cola with their own cola that appealed to "positive nationalism." Turkey must have some better local beverage than soda, right?
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| Which would you drink? |
Home computers became popular in the late 1970s when microprocessor became small enough and cheap enough to be affordable. The museum has an Altair 8800 and a TRS-80, along with a Superman comic touting the value of computers!
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| Early computers |
I found another display of kitchen devices featuring a refrigerator.
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| Kitchen items |
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| A tractor |
Items on display go all the way back to Eli Whitney's cotton gin, an engine that enabled growers to get the seeds out of cotton easily, making the crop much more profitable.
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| Cotton gin |
I took our youngest into the Wonderplace, an interactive exhibit aimed at preschoolers up to first graders. He enjoyed exploring and using his imagination.
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| Wonderplace |
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| Switches and knobs |
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| Building a treehouse |
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| Treehouse with farm |
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| Cooking in the play kitchen |
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| Toy tractors in the kitchen |
We walked through the On the Water exhibit and the America on the Move exhibit. The kids were getting hungry, so we didn't see too much. The exhibit focuses on vehicles used in the past 200 or so years.
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| A model ship |
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| A full-size locomotive |
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| A stuck car |
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| A fancier car |
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| Boats from New York harbor |
On our way to the basement cafeteria for lunch, we found a Lego Statue of Liberty! The replica is nine feet, five and a half inches tall. The actual statue is 151.1 feet tall. It was shipped to the United States in 350 pieces that were put together over seven months. The Lego statues has approximately 25,375 pieces and took 292 hours to construct.
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| Lego Liberty |
After lunch, we went upstairs to see more items. I was surprise to see Felicia Day's costume from her web series The Guild. The show was a spoof of The Office with the co-workers being people who play an online clone of World of Warcraft. They are all members of a guild within the game but they meet each other in real life, causing comedic situations.
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| The Guild costume |
An upstairs exhibit has a display of musical instruments. One side display shows various instruments used by jazz musicians. Another has a set of stringed instruments crafted by Stradivarius.
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| Jazz instruments |
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| Stradivarious instruments |
The big draw on the third floor is a pair of the ruby slippers from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The display shows stills from the movie and how the museum has preserved the pair of slippers they have.
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| Scenes from the movie |
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| Working on the shoes |
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| This display |
The filmmakers had several different pairs of slippers made and this particular pair is a mismatched set. The display challenges visitors to find difference between the two but the only difference I saw was the bows were a little different.
The museum has a lot of other exhibits. We only saw about half and may go back again someday.
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