I went to a wonderful museum today...but I didn't have a clue that hundreds of kids and their parents on "half-term" holiday would also be there with me.
Here, laid out before us was the history of this city from prehistoric until the present day and beyond. (Special exhibit on how global warming would affect London, even.)
It was crazy. Even though I am not a big fan of crowds, in this case most of the crowd was shorter than me (can't say that very often) and amazingly engaged in the history of their town. It was a delight.
Compared to my visits to the La Brea Tar Pits as a kid, where you would basically stand behind a chain-link fence and look at a pool of tar and a life size model of a drowning saber-tooth cat...this really brought a city's history to life.
Of course, I will have to go back to the museum another time, because there was no room to squeeze into the Black Death video (damn!) and kids were literally climbing on the interactive displays so even though I was indeed taller than most of them, I still couldn't experience huge chunks of history.
The best part? The admission to get in...zero. Most museums in this town are free. Of course they encourage donations, but there is no financial barrier to prevent anyone from stepping inside.
Coming from the SF Bay Area where museums are over-the-top pricey ($29.95 adult admission to the California Academy of Sciences, $18.00 adult admission to MOMA SF, etc.) this just feels right.
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