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2nd November 2006, 12:45 PM
Was lucky enough to go to poca 2006 conference in Edinburgh and had the chance to do t`museum. A really stunning building literally packed from top to bottom in goodies. Really well laid out and some innovative and thought-provoking ways of displaying finds too. A really effective bit on the Geology of Scotland (my first time!) was really useful and plenty interesting too. Some of the early metalwork and some of the lithics had us picking our jaws up off the floor and banging yer head on the glass while trying to get a closer look was`nt uncommon.An enormous museum and with plenty fer the kids to be gettin on with too.Well worth a visit but put aside a day to enable a good drool.
Tiz free to get in and the staff are all smiley and nice taboot.
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
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2nd November 2006, 12:57 PM
All that was missing was me.... sorry troll and Sniper...
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Glad you enjoyed the place... next time...
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2nd November 2006, 01:10 PM
Twas a mobile phone failure sire! Please dont be sorry-have every intention of going back again-perhaps when it is`nt so rainlike. Timings of the conference and impending flights compounded the issue so next time, halal haggis and deep-fried battered pizza shall be hunted verily.
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
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2nd November 2006, 02:06 PM
Can likewise recommend Edinburgh museum. Also National Museum in Dublin. I also have it on good authority that taking your good lady to view an entire floor cramed with prehistoric gold tends to have a strange but rather pleasent effect upon them. (seriously!)
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17th November 2006, 11:12 PM
I went to the National Museum in Dublin two weeks ago, didn't notice any cybermen - maybe they have improved it! I'd never been before as I never seem to have any free time when I am in Dublin but I just had to see the Bog Bodies exhibition- the museum is only open for three hours on sunday so I never made it as far as the viking unfortunately
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17th November 2006, 11:56 PM
I like the scale and the scope of the National Museum in Dublin. Not only do they have all of that prehistoric gold and the bog bodies on display, but in the section on the Anglo Irish War they have the bus tickets that various occupiers of the Post Office bought on the way to their date with destiny, Easter 1916. That's perspective!!
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18th November 2006, 02:27 PM
Back to Edinburgh - there are two museums, I presume we are talking about the NMS, as opposed to the Ryal down the road?
The NMS is indeed excellent, and such nice people too. They were really helpful and bent over backwards to help me with a piece of work 6 or 7 years ago, plied me with coffee, provided taxis to whisk me to their storage building, fetched out crumbling bronze shields for me to ogle, showed me X-rays and all sorts of things. All for a humble single celled amoeba of a diploma student.
Can't speak too highly of them.
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24th November 2006, 02:44 PM
My favourite bit of the National Museum of Ireland is the secret door that takes you to the Topographic Files. You always get double-takes from museum visitors when you emerge from between a copuple of display cases.
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25th November 2006, 04:14 PM
Twas the NMS and the Royal (same building)-blew us away.Some of the most amazing stuff to be found anywhere but whatever you do, put at least a whole day aside
P.S, spotted what looked like sheeps nads in cream in a cafe...whats a "stovey" when its at home?
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
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28th November 2006, 11:45 AM
I always like the egyptology room in Dublin
, they have sand filled cases in the floor with half buried pottery, and funky lights to make the room (up a little winding stair) look cool.
And the logboat which is hanging off the left wall of the ground floor, they have pictures of when it was installed with a jcb back in the dark ages of the fifies or sixties...
And the new bog-bodies exhibition, very funky.
And the medieval exhibition.
And the natural history museum on Merrion square, it's a museum piece itself...
I like museums!
