Alice in Museumland
Mar. 31st, 2003 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidSunday I met Treacle_Well for an expotition to the Children's Museum, which currently has an Alice exhibit. (Thanks for inviting me :-)
My favorite parts of the Alice exhibit included a room with similar-looking doors that each had different things to be seen through them little holes, or the keyholes. The room itself was interesting, one of the ones that plays with perspective, so that my head started hitting the ceiling at some point.
I also really enjoyed looking at the displays of different Alice art through the last century or so, some of which were just horrible (Disney-izations, or strange expressions), while others were lovely. The modern one that was most featured had excellent pictures, lots of detail, captured the feel of the time... except for Alice, who was totally wrong. It was frustrating when the rest of the illustration was right, except for her.
Other highlights included a globe behind glass that had two cameras at opposite ends of a semicircle. There were controls to move the camera location on the globe, so you could see where a hole that went through the earth would come out (Pacific, anyone?). Someone had put Alice swimming in the Pacific opposite England... They managed to work in an exploration of the features of a parabola and an ellipse, having golf balls to show how they would go to the focus each time (which mostly worked. The chutes for the golf balls were upside down flamingo heads :-). There was an opportunity to sniff tea, too.
It turned out that it was also a day of celebrating things Native American, so we got to see some dancing in garb, and hear a story or two.
I was sad to discover that the climbing structure that had been over the entrance has been replaced with a totally different climbing structure. The old one had been layers of curvy wooden shapes with holes between, while the new one is more rectilinear, with tubes to crawl through, as well. I felt old when I decided not to play in it, not wanting to step on someone accidentally, or hit my head :-(.
The recycling center had the usual strange assortment of junk. I managed to resist getting Monopoly counters (the shoe! the hat! the thimble! the iron!); really, what would I do with them? I succumbed to the rainbow-reflective silvery origami paper, though. Now I need to play more with the unit origami box book... :-)
April 5 toy symphony, with musical instruments from the Media Lab
April 12 Japanese cherry blossom festival, also kitchen science experiments
April 13 Alice's numberland :-)
April 26 national sense of smell day (yet another holiday I hadn't known about!) with all sorts of smell activities
April 27 national day of puppetry, with help from the Boston area guild of puppetry
Such a rainy day, but definitely spring, as evidenced by all the worms on the paths, escaping the flooding of their holes. And a worm death day ensued, since most worms got killed before they could make it back underground. I kept picturing a small Worm Death character, a la Death in Discworld, a tiny scythe harvesting each wormlife.
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My favorite parts of the Alice exhibit included a room with similar-looking doors that each had different things to be seen through them little holes, or the keyholes. The room itself was interesting, one of the ones that plays with perspective, so that my head started hitting the ceiling at some point.
I also really enjoyed looking at the displays of different Alice art through the last century or so, some of which were just horrible (Disney-izations, or strange expressions), while others were lovely. The modern one that was most featured had excellent pictures, lots of detail, captured the feel of the time... except for Alice, who was totally wrong. It was frustrating when the rest of the illustration was right, except for her.
Other highlights included a globe behind glass that had two cameras at opposite ends of a semicircle. There were controls to move the camera location on the globe, so you could see where a hole that went through the earth would come out (Pacific, anyone?). Someone had put Alice swimming in the Pacific opposite England... They managed to work in an exploration of the features of a parabola and an ellipse, having golf balls to show how they would go to the focus each time (which mostly worked. The chutes for the golf balls were upside down flamingo heads :-). There was an opportunity to sniff tea, too.
It turned out that it was also a day of celebrating things Native American, so we got to see some dancing in garb, and hear a story or two.
I was sad to discover that the climbing structure that had been over the entrance has been replaced with a totally different climbing structure. The old one had been layers of curvy wooden shapes with holes between, while the new one is more rectilinear, with tubes to crawl through, as well. I felt old when I decided not to play in it, not wanting to step on someone accidentally, or hit my head :-(.
The recycling center had the usual strange assortment of junk. I managed to resist getting Monopoly counters (the shoe! the hat! the thimble! the iron!); really, what would I do with them? I succumbed to the rainbow-reflective silvery origami paper, though. Now I need to play more with the unit origami box book... :-)
April 5 toy symphony, with musical instruments from the Media Lab
April 12 Japanese cherry blossom festival, also kitchen science experiments
April 13 Alice's numberland :-)
April 26 national sense of smell day (yet another holiday I hadn't known about!) with all sorts of smell activities
April 27 national day of puppetry, with help from the Boston area guild of puppetry
Such a rainy day, but definitely spring, as evidenced by all the worms on the paths, escaping the flooding of their holes. And a worm death day ensued, since most worms got killed before they could make it back underground. I kept picturing a small Worm Death character, a la Death in Discworld, a tiny scythe harvesting each wormlife.
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Date: 2003-03-31 10:46 am (UTC)*sigh* Should I feel wronged and rally against smelly people??
*GRIN*
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Date: 2003-03-31 10:53 am (UTC)I so wish your smelliness (in the sense of ability to, of course!) were back to how it had been, already.
Apparently they're going to be having a sniffing police dog, and the chance to match smells to the objects, stuff like that.