Return of Memoryfest - Day 12/31

[bironic]

12. Pre-school

I remember visiting a museum when we were very young that had a bare room in it where you'd mill about, and then the lights would go off, you'd strike a pose, a bright light would flash, and a few moments later the lights would come back up and you could see everyone's silhouettes on the wall. I'd say it was like magic except my dad was a science teacher, so half the fun was listening to him explain how it worked.


We visited a lot of museums back then, and while I remember things about each of them, I can't place this particular memory. I was just telling my sister I couldn't remember if this exhibit was in Sesame Place or some science museum, but she's positive it was the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia. (That's a story in itself; our parents told us that the next museum we went to was called the "Please Don't Touch Museum" so we knew to keep our hands off the displays. For years afterwards I believed that was its actual name.)

WTF

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[thewlisian-afer.livejournal.com]

The Girl Scouts around here do this thing every year (or at least they used to when I was a Girl Scout -- dunno if they still do) where they go to the NYS museum in Albany and ... well, I guess the point is to learn. We got packets we had to fill out and there were craft activities and trivia games and all kinds of stuff. It was always a lot of fun but the best part was we got to spend the night in the museum. My troop always chose to sleep in the area with the displays about animals of the northeast. One year I woke up in the middle of the night to my friend Ashley gripping my arm tight enough that it hurt and shaking it. She insisted that the life-sized deer that we were sleeping near had been moving. Neither of us slept the rest of the night and obviously we didn't see it move anymore. But deer still freak me out.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I wish we'd had an opportunity to stay overnight in a museum, even if I'd probably have been as scared as your friend. When the Museum of Natural History announced the start of those school sleepovers leading up to the release of "Night at the Museum," I was a little jealous of all the kids who'd get to spend the night in there. :)