Comments on: just call me docent deluxe

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:58:10 +0000

what if we put all of these museums into one HUGE MONOLITHIC MUSEUM CITY?!!!!

p.s. jessica, the petting zoo idea is brillz.

By: josh

josh — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:50:38 +0000

I think they already made the museum I would want to make: The City Museum, in St. Louis.

Take one abandoned 10 story 100 year old warehouse, take a squadron of conceptual artists with almost unlimited budgets, and let them go to town on the building. Results: a 5-story outdoor vertical maze/jungle gym/playground, 10 story metal slides from the top floor to the basement, a multi level indoor maze that has secret passageways that you have to crawl through everywhere, a wacky vaudeville-themed bar, an exhibit on doorknobs, a big indoor fish and turtle tank, and an underground cave maze.

By: jessica

jessica — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:12:48 +0000

OMG THAT’S IT ERIN!!! KITTY MUSEUM!!!

i have been trying to figure out mine… but it would definitely have the flair of a petting zoo. with VERY CUDDLY ANIMALS LIKE KOALAS AND FLUFFY KITTENS.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:51:16 +0000

I would go to each and all these musuems over and over again. An evolution one? Hells yes! A museum with BSG, complete with Starbuck and Adama? Hells yes!

My museum would have to be about wine. Yes, wine. From the beginning, when wine was really gross and vinegary, to the invention of champagne to a yeast room (Sarah! We could overlap our museums!), to modern day equipment. There would be a chemistry room with easy to read and understand visuals describing about the chemistry of wine. And of course, a section about the cultural/sociological/religious importance of wine throughout history.

And there would be tastings, from wines around the world. For the kiddos, they can taste the wine that has had the alcohol removed (it can be done, it is being done, don’t ask me why) and it is more and different than grape juice because of the way it’s made.

I love this post! Go Posh!

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:48:49 +0000

I have to be lame and say my fantasy museum would be a real history museum.

The History of Propaganda Museum!! It’d be awesome. There’d be loads of cool old Soviet stuff, and Cultural Revolution China stuff, and more or less everything in the media in the US for the two years after the September 11th attacks, and loads more!

And we’d all walk around loving it because it would be REALLY INTERESTING but we’d still get to feel superior because of course, none of us are foolish enough to fall for propaganda…..

By: Jen K.

Jen K. — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:54:24 +0000

Sarah - I think you’ve found your dream job. Now, all you need is a sponsor…I’d choose Paula Deen, but make sure you tell her you use lots and lots of butter. Maybe Betty Crocker could pitch in a few million and you could host bake-a-thon contests using their products! Hey, I say, if there is a museum dedicated entirely to SPAM, for goodness sake there can be one for baking! Taste testing would be so much better…

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:46:41 +0000

A. I really, really want to go to Matt’s museum.
B. Sarah, my 4th graders will be at the Blanton on May 7th!
C. I’m waiting for Jessica to chime in and say ‘Kitty Museum.’ Wait for it, wait for it,…
D. My museum would be a sociological work of art- The museum patrons would have opportunities throughout the museum to leave their own artifacts, be it video-recorded stories, personal trinkets or other things that represent them. These things would all be meticulously curated so that, over time, the museum would be entirely about the people who came to the museum.

By: Matt Gierhart

Matt Gierhart — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:04:43 +0000

I would want my museum to be like a Mulian Kundera novel as far as the combination of multiple media forms to create the end product. Here is a list of possible rooms:

1. Space
2. A wax museum adventure (horror story style)
3. The Rothko Chapel
4. some historical artifacts from the druids
5. a Pietà
6. Copak’s exhibition of the humblest artist
7. Kierkegaard’s grave
8. Some music room with dumb songs playing
9. Loads of whiskey to drink in that room
10. a really smart scientist explaining quantum physics with a great power point
11. a light show
12. the rothko chapel again
13. some ethical situations for the viewers to discuss and buttons to push that shows possible outcomes based on their discussion, which makes ethics into a game so that it doesn’t really matter
14. Me curating a room of all the amazing talented friends work I have: some Rob Pepper, some poshdeluxe blogging, some sing-a-longs, some music, some writings, it would be fantastic

I would force people to go through it in order, it might even have a ride aspect like those awful haunted house rides. Yeah, I think there will be a train track with carts, if anything people can just make out with the people around them if they get bored.

By: Moody

Moody — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:05:11 +0000

I would say a Superman museum but I believe they already have one in Metropolis Illinois. Maybe have a museum for famous(my favorite) TV stage sets. At this museum Cheers is an actual bar that works with animated Norm sitting at the end of the bar and periodically saying something about Vera. They could put the restaurant from Seinfeld as a real restaurant within the museum. Have a whole Sci Fi section where we would see the bridges of all Star Trek shows, the Main room on Battlestar Galactica, The basement room of the J Edgar Hoover building from the X-Files. The Loft from Smallville. The fake house from Arrested Development. Hell even the Brady Bunch living room be cool to walk on.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:11:53 +0000

My museum would be a museum of imaginary creatures. Like they would make sculptures and fake footprints and stuff of dragons and trolls and aliens and stuff like that. It would either be the most awesome thing ever or the most cheesy/awesome thing ever. I would live there, in the attic, and haunt the place at night.