Comments on: "My Favorite Museum Exhibit": Where exhibits come from http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-4.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 05:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: andyhavens http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-4.html#comment-1332088 andyhavens Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=140996#comment-1332088 I love that the tiny little Cazenovia library in NY has an actual Egyptian mummy on display. And it blogs: http://cazenoviamummy.blogspot.com/ I love that the tiny little Cazenovia library in NY has an actual Egyptian mummy on display.

And it blogs: http://cazenoviamummy.blogspot.com/

]]> By: emo hex http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-4.html#comment-1331839 emo hex Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=140996#comment-1331839 At one time there were a couple of actual shrunken heads at the Chicago Museum of Natural History, I don't know what ever happened to them? At one time there were a couple of actual shrunken heads at the Chicago Museum of Natural History, I don’t know what ever happened to them?

]]> By: justine http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-4.html#comment-1331378 justine Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=140996#comment-1331378 Dermestids are cool...you can hear them eating! A museum I used to work in had the following signs in the zoology wet lab... "Carrion Crew" "Trespassers will be Skeletonized!" Good times... Dermestids are cool…you can hear them eating!

A museum I used to work in had the following signs in the zoology wet lab…

“Carrion Crew”

“Trespassers will be Skeletonized!”

Good times…

]]> By: Snig http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-4.html#comment-1331237 Snig Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:22:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=140996#comment-1331237 I was talking once to my brother about my school's dermestid colony and he didn't believe that such a thing existed.  It turns out he misheard me, and he thought I was claiming we had a colony of dermestid beagles, apparently specially bred to gnaw very carefully. I was talking once to my brother about my school’s dermestid colony and he didn’t believe that such a thing existed.  It turns out he misheard me, and he thought I was claiming we had a colony of dermestid beagles, apparently specially bred to gnaw very carefully.

]]> By: dr.hypercube http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-4.html#comment-1330573 dr.hypercube Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=140996#comment-1330573 What? You don't have a colony of dermestids? What? You don’t have a colony of dermestids?

]]> By: tonywonder http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-4.html#comment-1330523 tonywonder Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:20:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=140996#comment-1330523 The screech owl video was a cool change. Liked the behind the scenes! <!-- http://tinyurl.com/7nc4btu --> The screech owl video was a cool change. Liked the behind the scenes! 

]]> By: RunawayJim http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-4.html#comment-1330512 RunawayJim Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=140996#comment-1330512 Damn. I didn't see the request, but I don't have pictures from one of the best museums I've visited... the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. It's all medical oddities. In fact, I think I first learned about it on Boing Boing. :) Damn. I didn’t see the request, but I don’t have pictures from one of the best museums I’ve visited… the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. It’s all medical oddities. In fact, I think I first learned about it on Boing Boing. :)

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