Anyone else hate museums?

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I always felt museums to be strange, I never liked the idea of taking something of its natural habitat and essentially robbing it of it's history and charging people to see it. There is also a negative conotation because many of these objects were seized during the colonial period and now sit in museums in Western World. The most famous example of this is the Eye of the Idol, originally from India.

ya it is basicly publicly displayed theft sanctioned by history

It generally depends on the museum, however, concerning artifacts and paintings, I do tend to prefer to see them in books, where they can be better represented in context.

Some museums which display such things, will do so using an exhibit which put the object in context. For example, instead if displaying a mayan cooking pot by itself in a display case, they will recreate a mayan house with the cooking pot and other artifacts in their proper places.

Your very right in a sense about museums. I like them a lot but they have a dark side. For example, native American works of art were often stolen and put on displays out of context.

I love museums.

Yes a lot of the objects were once "stolen" from other countries and cultures but at least I get to appreciate them.

I guess it takes all sorts. Some people enjoy amusement parks or bars or strip clubs.

I enjoy museums and art galleries and libraries. I love to learn new things and seeing the finest things that mankind has produced.

The idea of wandering around a stately structure seeing beautiful things at low cost--and no social contact required--is appealing enough to me that I can overlook the fact that some or most of the exhibits might have been looted in the distant past. I do not like hands-on or interactive museums, however--stasis is a virtue, in my opinion--or blockbuster exhibits where, after standing in long lines, you are herded into little groups and told what to think of what you are seeing. My favorite museums are those in Washington, which are both good and free, but if I were a world traveler, I might well change my mind.

Back when I was at school, one thing for sure is that it would used to bore me just going to museums, I never really found anything so interesting about it apart from the Science museum which I actualy found rather interesting.

The facts they say is rather interesting but I don't believe in things like humans were developed from a form of monkeys, I just think god made adam and eve and so on.

Well I guess now I could say that I would find it rather interesting, but it would depend which one I'm going to and what the museum is about which could relate to some of my interests.

Yes and no. It depends on what kind they are.

Are you also mad at zoos getting animals from their native habitats? How about western colonialism? Damming rivers for power? Deforestation for housing and farming? Hasn't most everything been stolen at one or another from somewhere else?

Museums are a great way to preserve artifacts and hopefully history. Museums do a lot more than put on exhibits for the public. They house much more than what is shown and often do vital research. I think it would be great to live in museum or at least work at one.

I love museums. They can be very fascinating.

I generally find museums incredibly boring.

I like historical museums (as opposed to like museums of pertified wood or a museum of some type of memoribilia ). I like actually being able to see things. I am a very visual learner. If someone is standing in front of me lecturing about something, I probably won't be able to tell you what they said five minutes after it ends. But when I can see something with my own eyes, I can really absorb it. I think it also gives me a feeling of a connection to the past, if that makes any sense. In school, we learn about the dinosaurs, prehistoric man, the colonial times and so on. To me, it is fascinating when I can see authentic artifacts or fossils from a particular period of time. I find it very interesting. I can see how some people may be bored at a museum, but I had never thought about someone being opposed to museums because of how the artificats came to be in a particular building. Food for thought...

There is a traveling museum that is nearby that I want to go see before it moves on. It's called Bodies: The Exhibition. It's very controversial (if you haven't heard of it, you can look it up on a search engine) but I would love to see it. Perhaps it's because I'm majoring in Registered Nursing. Whatever the reason, I think it's a pretty neat idea.

I love museums, in fact, I plan on visiting one tommorow.

Anyone else hate museums? wrong.

It depends what it is a museum of.

Museum of hair - boring.

Corn cob pipe museum- I am there.