1. 15:22 9th Aug 2011

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    meaghano: You might not know it but the best hall in the Museum of Natural History is the New York State Environment Hall, which has not been updated in perhaps 40 years. It is dark and mostly about crops and soil and water levels, but I would like to commit all of it to Instagram, immediately. There is a similar hall in the Field Museum in Chicago that just has hundreds of carefully crafted models of plants and nuts and flowers and fruits.  It’s also 30+ years old, dark, and mostly unvisited.  It doesn’t spill out into a gift shop or direct you to a new and exciting exhibit with computers and TVs everywhere.  They had a small cabinet dedicated to the guys who made all the models, and apparently there were a few guys who spent multiple years working full time on studying the real life plants and then crafting models of them, all by hand.  It’s kind of crazy to think about today: a whole exhibit hall dedicated to hand-crafted models instead of holograms or some other futuristic shit to get people to pay $8 on top of their normal fee to see the museum.

    meaghano:

    You might not know it but the best hall in the Museum of Natural History is the New York State Environment Hall, which has not been updated in perhaps 40 years. It is dark and mostly about crops and soil and water levels, but I would like to commit all of it to Instagram, immediately.

    There is a similar hall in the Field Museum in Chicago that just has hundreds of carefully crafted models of plants and nuts and flowers and fruits.  It’s also 30+ years old, dark, and mostly unvisited.  It doesn’t spill out into a gift shop or direct you to a new and exciting exhibit with computers and TVs everywhere.  They had a small cabinet dedicated to the guys who made all the models, and apparently there were a few guys who spent multiple years working full time on studying the real life plants and then crafting models of them, all by hand.  It’s kind of crazy to think about today: a whole exhibit hall dedicated to hand-crafted models instead of holograms or some other futuristic shit to get people to pay $8 on top of their normal fee to see the museum.

     
    1. eyeoftheocean reblogged this from meaghano
    2. michellereneepaul reblogged this from meaghano and added:
      this is 100% true. hanging out...environment hall feels like time travel. (also this
    3. jaimealyse reblogged this from rachelfershleiser and added:
      This is a very true thing! The tiny farm equipment, the orchard model. Not so much the giant mosquito. But also this...
    4. rachelfershleiser reblogged this from meaghano and added:
      ginormous worm!!!
    5. awoodenpen reblogged this from meaghano and added:
      Audra & I’s first date was at...History. As first dates go, it was good. Very good. I...
    6. whitneymcn said: The Hall of Northwest Coast Indians has barely been touched in my lifetime, too. Huge, open, dark and echoing. I’ve loved it since I was about two years old, can’t bear the thought of it changing.
    7. etcetera reblogged this from meaghano and added:
      There is a similar...Chicago that just has hundreds of carefully crafted models of plants...
    8. topherchris said: That place is awesome!
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