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Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 2:37 PM
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I love museums of all types..of: cars, history, airplanes, people, boats, animals, events, war, etc.
One could make a life of just ferreting them out on a map.. jumping in the car or RV and attend as many as possibly.
As many have done..I’ve visited scores of museums during my day, such as:
Air Flight & Indian Museums in DC, Naval Academy Museum, the Elvis Home, SCAD museum of Art of SAV, many Art museums in NYC, etc.
Maybe saddest was a WW2 Museum at Normandy Beach in France that showed captured German film that 99% of American public never saw..of their planes going up & down the beach heads as Americans soldiers came ashore and were unmercifully mowed down by the hundreds.
What’s your fav museum visited?
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May 13, 2024, 2:52 PM
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I've been to a few. The Smithsonian has so much. You could spend months there. I like military stuff too. Some small ones as well as big ones. I haven't been but my Daughter and her family visited the 911 Museum and area and they said that hit them hard. While you're skipping your way down the coast that little one at Southport, N.C. is alright but I didn't know that's where they filmed "Weekend at Bernies" lol. I think the Vietnam, WWII and Korean area in D.C. touched me a lot. Some local places here like Cowpens Battlefield and Kings Mountain Battlefield are neat to walk and hear the history.
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 3:07 PM
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there is a WWII museum in New Orleans that is good. It has Ikes letter he wrote to be shared if Normandy failed. Navy's Air Museum in Pensacola is also very nice as I AF's museum at Wright Patter ( has some old Air Force ones
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 3:19 PM
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One of the best military air and space related museums I ahve visited is the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. I have visited on many occasions. It gets better every time with added artifacts.
Web site: https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/
It is simply outstanding.
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 3:37 PM
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Love the Valkyrie there.
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 3:22 PM
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The museum I have on my bucket list to visit is the ACC Museum in Charlotte. I'm sure once the ACC is no longer in existence, there will be many old artifacts to see. I especially want to see the ACC/ESPN media rights contract.
Feel free to add to the list.
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 3:22 PM
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Tennessee State Museum in Nashville has some great artifacts and displays. Also loved the Heinz Museum in Pittsburgh- whole exhibit on Heinz catsup and the entire set from Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood. WWII Museum in New Orleans should be on the bucket list. The Witte Museum in San Antonio is another good visit. The Mighty Eight Museum in Savannah is good. But we have some great museums big and small here in the Palmetto state. The SC State Museum may be one of the few redeeming things in Cooterville. Go Tigers!!!!!
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i've heard the Museaum of the Bible in DC is a must see.. i'd love to hit up DC
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May 13, 2024, 3:24 PM
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for a week and do the tourist thing but it's so crazy there now..i would probably end up regretting it. I heard a story of some people that went to a rally for a Presidential candidate in DC that are still in jail after 3.5 years just for being present. Alot of nuts in that area. Maybe one day I'll get the courage to visit.
I really loved Arlington Cemetary. Actually attended a funeral there one time of a decorated WW2 vet. It was something special for sure.
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Henry Ford***
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May 13, 2024, 3:25 PM
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May 13, 2024, 4:27 PM
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Love Henry Ford museum and Wright Patterson AFB is awesome free museum with as many planes as the Smithsonian
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May 13, 2024, 3:29 PM
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The Holocaust Museum in DC is probably one of the most poignant museums you will ever tour. I think every young person in America should be required to visit this and Arlington.
The museum explains so much of the roots of all the dissention currently going on in the Middle East. Understanding these roots would greatly improve most people's perspective and understanding. It would vastly decrease the number anti-sematic protest and rhetoric.
The reverence and respect displayed in the quiet calm of Arlington is enough to wither any unpatriotic heart. The glaring sacrifices for freedom are impossible to ignore.
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 3:40 PM
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My son is in the USSF (Space Force) and was serving at Wright Patterson for the past 4 years and we went to the air and space museum many times. What a great place and it’s FREE, please go if you can.
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May 13, 2024, 4:29 PM
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I didn’t see your post. Thanks for your son’s service and it is an awesome place. I wish we could see the Area 51 alien they moved there haHa
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Flight 93 National Memorial in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania.
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May 13, 2024, 3:48 PM
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I worked for a company that printed collegiate, NBA and NHL apparel. For the championship games we would print shirts on-site the night of the games. We would contract out print shops near the cities that were playing. During the 2016 season I was sent to Johnstown, PA to print if the Penguins won. Because the Pens lost game 5 I had a few days to travel around.
The Flight 93 memorial was about 30 minutes away and I just happened to drive by one morning. It was one of the strangest places I've ever been. There was only about 10 people there while I was there. The only way to describe it is that it felt sad. It's a big field with a few markers explaining what happened and a building with some of the wreckage and personal items that were found. It also had a bank of phones that you could pick up and listen to the voicemails that several passengers had left. Every single person I saw pick up a phone walked away wiping tears away.
If you are traveling to the Pittsburgh for the football game this year and are going a few days early, take the hour and half trip to the site.
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^ Had to be so excruciating to hear~>recordings from Flight 93
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May 13, 2024, 3:55 PM
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Geez, this fact of history being reheard in a last voicemail of such an extreme & dire urgency to a loved one in moments b/4 death is surreal & unimaginable.
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It was rough. A lot of very calm straight to the point calls though.
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May 13, 2024, 4:16 PM
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I love you, tell everyone I love them. Take care of this person. Things like that.
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 4:26 PM
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https://www.nmfh.org/
Here is one for ya!
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The University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks
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May 13, 2024, 4:39 PM
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was one of the best we have ever been in. Lots of historical stuff on native Alaskans and animals. The best part for me was the "Sound Room" when you go into this empty room that has hundreds of speakers hidden in the walls and ceiling and they are set off with different sounds of the weather and atmosphere. The base sounds, which vibrated the room, were tied to seismographs and measured earthquakes, which are almost continuous in Alaska. The high pitch sounds were tied to high winds, I think, and was a tinkling sound like a cymbal. Every sound had a weather phenomenon. One for rain, one for snow, etc. and they were real time, in that when an earthquake occurred, bass sounds came out. When it snowed somewhere in AK, mid-range sounds came out. When you put it all together it was like music, except you were actually listening to nature induced sound. It was very interesting.
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 4:47 PM
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Chicago Field Museum and Hermitage in St. Petersburg Russia.
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battle museum at bull run in manasses virginia
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May 13, 2024, 4:53 PM
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and of course the smithsonian
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 4:54 PM
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D Day memorial in Bedford, Virginia is a must visit. Before arriving, I was wondering why in this little town in the middle of nowhere? Most American lives lost came from that town than anywhere else.
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 5:23 PM
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If you are a baseball fan, try to make the trip to Cooperstown
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USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio
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May 13, 2024, 6:01 PM
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Is on my bucket list. I hear it is a vast facility so I'll be sure to pack a lunch if I go.
Go Tigers
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 6:38 PM
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Hidden gems: Black Hills Institute of Palentology in Hill City. Like a little wing of the Smithsonian without the crowds.(These are the guys that discovered "Sue", the big T-Rex). Also drop down to visit the "Mammoth Trap" in Hot springs.
Real hidden gem: The Tellus Museum in Cartersville, Ga. Wow!
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Crump and Meist I think its time to get rid of the board designation format
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May 13, 2024, 6:45 PM
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The olds can’t seem to grasp the concept.
GOOOOooOoOoOooo tIgeRs!!
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I like art musuems
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May 13, 2024, 6:57 PM
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I have been to a plethora of them across Europe and the US and seen many of the worlds most famous paintings and works of art from the Louvre to the Rijksmusuem to the national gallery in London, the many places in Italy. As well as local smaller art ones like a small one in San Antonio I love, Santa Fe galleries, a Copenhagen Denmark unique gallery.
I always find them to be fascinating peers into the past and human's evolving definition of art and beauty.
This is an interest of mine I didn't have anyone to share with really until last summer when I had a fling type thing with a Dutch girl who worked at the Rijksmusuem and traveled around to different cities in the Netherlands making connections and cultivating with Dutch art museums around the country.
Hoping to maybe go back in a couple of months.
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 8:20 PM
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A couple of weeks ago my brother and I went to the Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico ...... great museum and had our photos taken in front of the actual flag raised on Iwo Jima. Both being Marines, it gave us goose bumps!
Also visited the Air & Space museum at Dulles. This is a "must see" museum, housing the Enola Gay, SR-71 Blackbird, The Discovery Space Shuttle (huge plane) and so many others.
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 13, 2024, 8:48 PM
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One of my favorites is the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, VA, which was already mentioned in this thread. I also really enjoyed touring Patriot's Point in the Charleston area.
Last summer, we also toured the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. The museum has a lot of dinosaur fossils, which my Cub thought was really cool (and so did I)! We also toured a ghost town while we were out there, and that was fun, too.
I've also been to the Louvre in Paris, and it was definitely a worthwhile trip. There was an ancient Egyptian exhibit that we really enjoyed, and the history of the building itself is just downright cool.
I've also been to the D-Day beaches with my family. I have a couple of uncles who stormed the beaches on that day, and it was pretty chilling to stand at the top of the cliffs and look down realizing what they faced. And I agree with the post above about the movie that they show; I learned a lot from the movie that I had never heard before then.
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Bill, check out the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola.
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May 14, 2024, 6:13 AM
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It’s worth the trip, plus the beaches are beautiful !
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Wright Patterson AF Base Museum is fantastic!***
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 14, 2024, 7:58 AM
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I enjoy most museums a great deal. Some of the ones I've visited include:
* Normandy - Many Normandy museums (did a 7-day Beaches of Normandy tour last year)
* Normandy - Mont Saint-Michel
* Paris - Army Museum (Musée de l'Armée)
* Paris - Les Invalides (tomb of Napoleon I)
* Paris - Versailles
* Salzburg - Mozart's birthplace musuem
* Salzburg - Sound of Music (private tour)
* London - Churchill War Rooms
* London - Imperial War Museum
* London - British Museum
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* London - Royal Air Force Museum
* I also really like to visit the cathedrals found all over Europe. They are incredible pieces of architectural history and are each a museum to me.
I have some more on my list to see this fall in Prague and Budapest - providing they aren't invaded by Putin.... 
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Versailles is great***
May 14, 2024, 1:25 PM
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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I have been to hundreds of random museums. When I was young my Dad who was divorced from my Mom took me over the summer to every state in the lower 48. We hit up every random museum or tourist attraction in the country over 4 months. As an adult, my favorite place is the Getty in Los Angeles. It's free by the way. The last museum I went to is the International African Ametican Museum in Charleston. That's world class museum. Absolutely stunningly beautiful. I highly recommend.
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 14, 2024, 8:37 AM
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The Smithsonian has to be #1. I'd love to go back and spend more time there. Locally, I enjoyed the Greenville County Museum of Art--especially the time they had the Jamie Wyeth exhibition displayed alongside his father's work.
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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May 14, 2024, 10:01 AM
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I like to go to a few. Not as much as my teacher in religions and American history. He basically goes to one every weekend
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
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My favorite is The Huntington Gardens near Pasadena CA. Huge huge botanical garden, 3 separate buildings of art galleries, and a research library with tons of historical books on display. So much to see you need two days to visit.
https://huntington.org/
Other's I've enjoyed is the Lyon Air museum at John Wayne airport near Newport Beach CA. It is an immaculate building. The planes look fresh off the assembly line with the centerpiece a pristine looking B-17. Naval air in Pensacola is top notch as well and have also thoroughly enjoyed all the Smithsonian museums in DC.
https://lyonairmuseum.org/
https://navalaviationmuseum.org/home/
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Re: Any of you TNetters big museum lovers & goers?
May 14, 2024, 2:19 PM
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The old Cairo Museum. They've built a new one that recently opened closer to the pyramids. But the old gal is 150 years old and has King Tut's stuff in it and so much more.
Smithsonian in DC is wonderful
The Lourve
Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
Air Museum in Pensacola was an unexpected surprise.
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