Tech Travel Week Round Up #8
This weeks tech travel round up has a specific theme to it, museums. I know, I know museums are not the frist thing that springs to mind when you think about technology, but bare with me. There a tons of great museums out there, these new museums are not like your grandfathers museums. Unlike the crappy museums they used to take you too as a kid these are filled with all sorts of tecnological marvales of both the past and the present. If you don’t know where you came from you will never know where your going.
The first stop is Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum, you have to see it to believe it! The museum is full of all sorts of mechanical odds and ends, games machines and other coin operated objects seems to be the theme.
Another coin obsessed antiquity collector is the Museum Mecanique in San Fransisco, California. Many penny games and slot machines are in the museum, along with what may be the only steam operated motorcyle in the world.
While on the theme of wacky carnival style pieces have a look at the Pez museum located in Burlingame, California. Even if Pez’s are not your thing you have to respect their impact on the internet. E-bay was founded as a way for the entreprenurs wife to meet other Pez peddlers.
Next is a peice that New Scientest ran looking at various abandoned or dismanteled large scale science experiments that litter the world.
Keep going across the Pacific and you will find a museum and tech obsessed country, Japan. The Japanese love their museums and have one (or two) for just about everything. However, when it comes to popular culture works such as Manga and technology they feel a better national museum is in order. The Japan Times has a great article looking at Japanes attempt to preserve their present.
Looking at the future of Museum, China not wanting to be outdone by Japan is constructing a very unique museum. Whats the best way to view a shipwreak? Underwater of course! Moving old wreaks can be very dnagerous so China is bring the museum to the shipwreak. Five great halls will cover the wreak and some of its 80,000 treasures.
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