Museum About The Future

Museums survive on the constant evolution of their displays and set-ups.  In order to encourage consistent attendance over the years, the museum needs to update and re-design exhibits over and over. 

My museum will be designed solely on the idea of the evolution of its displays and exhibits.  

It will be the 'Museum of the Future'.  The museum will include have a historical exhibit that will  show simply displaying ideas from the future help improve technology and encourage experimentation. 

Common knowledge among Trekies is that the communication devices used in the movies from the 70's and 80's encouraged future cell phone designers to create something similar. This exhibit will encourage children to show that imagination is just as important as experimentation in expanding our technology.

The exhibit will encourage opinion and ideas from its visitors and guests to publish their ideas for an Idea Wall and will have exhibits of popular futuristic devices and ideas and will show their progress in experimentation. 

For example, if created now, there would be an exhibit talking about flying cars and show their beta-stages that are currently in construction and the possible future of them.

My museum would encourage live lectures from Professors and Scientists that lead their field in creative experimentation. 

Tell me what you think!

The Alamo

I visited the Alamo over Spring Break and have done so several times before in my life, as is required when growing up in San Antonio, Texas.  The event itself that surrounds the treasured history of the Alamo is one filled with rich details of heroism and self-sacrifice and much is known about the personalities of the people that fought their last fight behind its walls. 

Yet the Museum seems to pay little tribute in knowledge or artifacts present in the present day.  You would expect a museum with several exhibits telling about Davy Crockett, the man mythically known for wrestling a bear, or about Col. Travis and all the other men that have legacies bigger than their name.  

Instead, all that can be seem is a few simple set ups that shown pictures and diagrams of what it might have look like before the war and a couple known artifacts from the time but their are no need for tour guides because it the space is one room no larger than the ground space of one individual movie theater.  Outside, it contains a beautiful garden that has plenty of spots to sit and reflect but that would be more fitting in an art museum.  

The Alamo is a museum dedicated to a major battle and bloodshed and is a topic known by all major American history buffs and they want to know  the juicy details and see items that might hvae been worn by their heros. 

Sorry Alamo, you still to this day have let me down.