joesixpack
12th November 2005, 12:07 PM
My wife and kid and I were just in Fort Erie Ontario visiting her family last week and we decided to take my kid and a couple of his cousins across the border into Buffalo to check out the Nat History Museum (They have dinosaur skeletons there, so the kids were really keen on going.) I had never been there before (or to Buffalo NY, for that matter)
If you're near there, I would recomend a visit. There is a really cool art installation there that is impossible to describe, but it will give most adults a few hours of enjoyment. But, that's not the reason I'm writing about it. The city of Buffalo has has done the coolest thing. They've attached a science magnet school to the museum. It's the coolest thing I have ever seen. I don't even think it's a high school, it seems like it may be a Jr. High or an elementry school.
It (the school i.e.) is actually built right over the old neo-classical facade of the museum so that, as you walk into the main lobby, to one side is the school, and the other side of the lobby is the front of the museum. When you walk up the steps to the museum, you can turn around and look into the schools library.
I don't know about you guys, but when I was a kid, I would have exploded with orgasmic joy at the thought of going to school in a museum. I would have been there on saturdays and sundays, too. I hope more cities try doing something like that, it seems like a great way of keeping museums funded and getting the most of their educational potential.
Just had to share...
If you're near there, I would recomend a visit. There is a really cool art installation there that is impossible to describe, but it will give most adults a few hours of enjoyment. But, that's not the reason I'm writing about it. The city of Buffalo has has done the coolest thing. They've attached a science magnet school to the museum. It's the coolest thing I have ever seen. I don't even think it's a high school, it seems like it may be a Jr. High or an elementry school.
It (the school i.e.) is actually built right over the old neo-classical facade of the museum so that, as you walk into the main lobby, to one side is the school, and the other side of the lobby is the front of the museum. When you walk up the steps to the museum, you can turn around and look into the schools library.
I don't know about you guys, but when I was a kid, I would have exploded with orgasmic joy at the thought of going to school in a museum. I would have been there on saturdays and sundays, too. I hope more cities try doing something like that, it seems like a great way of keeping museums funded and getting the most of their educational potential.
Just had to share...