Thursday, August 10, 2006

Virginia Marine Science Museum

This museum is designed for rainy days at Virginia Beach. 100,000 diversions for kids. Lots of little things to poke and prod (hey, I liked petting the horseshoe crab).

Sadly, not much for adults. I've never seen so few fish spread over such a large area. A few large tanks and turtles and a few small sharks but for a museum with so much space, there was so little on show. We walked over acres of manicured marsh lands and there was nothing to see.

There's so few live exhibits in this museum- they're exhausted for performing for the audience. All over, there were blank spaces were the exhibits were a.w.o.l. For example, there was this one otter that was so tired of performing that he just lay comatosed on a rock. He waved at us before rolling over and falling back to sleep. "Call my agent," I think he said, "I'm touring again in the Spring."

Clearly, these folks went insane thinking of how to fill up this HUGE space with stuff to entertain the kids:
  • There was one exhibit where a mock grandfather sat in a mock garage making mock duck decoys (which are used for hunting- so this should be in an avian preserve because....?).
  • But the best, by far, was the the solid waste kangaroo. Go figure.

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