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Now that we've discussed some interesting museums, let's turn the tables. Say you were put in charge of building a museum that told about the history of your town in the last 20 years.
As a New Yorker I would want to build the gentrification museum that would discuss how working and middle class people are being pushed further and further out of the city. Actually I would try to present different sides of the issue in terms of crime reduction, image enhancement and quality of life improvements, but also portray the human toll for the non-wealthy of NY.
Then again, that museum could probably be built in a number of places. I now live in Austin which is great except that some people want to turn it into NYC with huge residential sky scrapers. Actually in Austin I would build the Live Music Museum which would be a music venue in itself and also chronicle the growth of the music scene in this unique place.
Easy, just build a target and call it a museum. When you live in the suburbs, that is as interesting as it gets.
Well, as long as it's one of those Targets that has a Starbucks in it...
The museum about Washington DC since Y2K would include:
1. Several rolls of duct tape--the "miracle" substance that we were told would save our lives in case of hurricanes, nuclear strikes, snipers, or terrorist attack.
2. A little zoo with critters that will no longer be found around here: orioles, blue crabs, honest politicians...
Oh, an aquarium of the "snakehead", showing that it was once a relatively small fish (before it suddenly arrived in the Potomac a few years back). Because in 20 more years it will probably be the size of the Loch Ness monster.
3. Architectural plans of all the designs for the new stadium. And what happened to the various sites that were NOT selected for the stadium.
4. Cell phone/IPOD exhibit. Years from now people will wonder how we survived with such primitive devices...
5. A section of the beltway, carefully preserved next to the section of the Berlin Wall. Because (hopefully) we will find better ways to transport people, and the beltway will one day be obsolete. The whole structure will be torn down and turned into a giant park.
I'd build a three-flat and house in it a hotdog stand, a bar with no name and just an 'old style' sign out front run by a cranky middle-aged Polish lady, a corrupt politician from Bridgeport, a mid-twenties ditzy blonde wearing Prada spiked heels, a frat boy, a hipster, a blues musician, a plumber, and an uptight finance guy in a navy blue suit. It would be the best real-world episode ever.
For my museum in Youngstown, Ohio, I would have three exhibits: 1) a watch, to symbolize the unemployment in this town, as residents have no way to pass the time; 2) a bulldozer, to show how the city is literally tearing itself down; and 3) a gravestone as a tribute to the hundreds who have lost their lives in senseless killings.
For my museum in Youngstown, Ohio, I would have three exhibits: 1) a watch, to symbolize the unemployment in this town, as residents have no way to pass the time; 2) a bulldozer, to show how the city is literally tearing itself down; and 3) a gravestone as a tribute to the hundreds who have lost their lives in senseless killings.
Sounds lovely and uplifting!
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