Museum Lines
Lines! I could not believe the lines at the De Young to see the post-Impressionist Exhibit! There were gobs of people! We all waited anxiously behind the tape to be let into the exhibit in staggered groups. It was incredibly crowded.
Lines! I could not believe the lines at the De Young to see the post-Impressionist Exhibit! There were gobs of people! We all waited anxiously behind the tape to be let into the exhibit in staggered groups. It was incredibly crowded.
I can’t help but imagine what horrible thing is going to ruin everything, but then I remember that you’re not a British sit-com writer.
Poor Mr Fawlty. . .
When the California Academy of Sciences reopened the lines practically went all the way outside Golden Gate Park (incidentally, that’s another museum that looks terrible after being rebuilt…geez, is nothing sacred? Where’s the Gary Larson Hall?!).
When we attended the King Tut exhibit in the Franklin Institute a couple years back, it was easy to calculate from the crowds that there were more people at the exhibit in that one day than probably ALL the people who had attended King Tut’s actual funeral. (And that’s counting the slaves!) 😉
To some (most) of their patrons, museums are amusement parks, offering thrills, chills, lightheadedness, queasiness, concessions and souvenirs. Plus you gotta weigh in society’s modern day love of blockbusters. Everyone wants to be attending when the pancake stack is hot off the stove. A Harry Potter movie may come out and do, as they say, “boffo” in the box office and after a couple or three weeks its old news and out of short term memory.
Oh, and your post-impressionist promotional propaganda potpourri should appear on a t-shirt. Only no Randie dreaming, too cutsie for a guy to wear.
Dada: There is the Cartoon Art Museum in SF. I have never seen any lines there, though… sadly. It’s a great little museum and deserves lines.
Tut packed’em in, eh? I hear his traveling days are “all wrapped up” as Tut now has his very own museum in Egypt.
Oh, the de Young certainly had the souvenirs and concessions down pat! Exit through the gift shop! (which, by the way, if you haven’t seen, is well worth the Netflix wait…especially if you like street art!)
Stick: I don’t know… the Tiki Room wouldn’t make it to a guys’ shirt?
The biggest attraction of Disneyland for me is the imaginitive atmospheres, the ability to escape into another world full of amazing and fanciful detail. Good art does the same for me, touching some spot in my life experience and drawing me in. I could totally spend a day in a place that featured a “land” of villages, fields or seascapes in the style of each of the great masters.
Museums as amusement parks? Yes.
Tiki room motiv on a guy’s shirt? Absolutely, Yes. Also, jungle cruise, sure; pinkish rock, eh.
Showing Randie dreaming? Sorry, nope.
I even give you permission to use my “post-impressionist promotional propaganda potpourri” portrayal as its caption. Even though, I doubt you’ll use it.
I’m really glad to see that Art Installations are seeing an upswing in patrons.
Being a nerd, I’m more into the Science Museum in London (sorry, Brig!). I was very pleased when the admission cost became free.
Oh, and I put an update from Bananagrams on yesterday’s comments.