I am not as museum professional.  I receive this list for my curator wife.
However I would have to say that as an adult my most thought provoking,
memorable visit to a museum has been the Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC.
As a child, however, I loved two exibits at the Chicago museum of science
and industry.  The first was the German U-boat that you could walk through.
(I work as an engineer for the U.S. submarine fleet today.)  However, my
favorite was the simulated coal mine exhibit.  The cave-like atmosphere
along with all of that really cool, noisy machinery and the tram ride
through darkened mineshafts was so much to take in that I would stay
enthralled for the whole ride.  I was always confused, though, when that
elevator took us at least a couple thousand feet down but we only had to
walk up a flight of stairs to get back up to the surface. :-)

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                From:   Jim Lyons [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent:   Friday, March 24, 2000 12:23 AM
                To:     [log in to unmask]
                Subject:        Re: Unforgettable exhibit

                March 23, 2000

                I was faced with that three or four years ago, when in
Maryland they dug up
                some of the 17th century Calvert family to study them.  They
were my wife's
                ancestors but she wasn't bothered a bit.  I was the one who
didn't like it.


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                >Mummies are being repatriated regularly to their
                >native peoples for appropriate burial/handling.  What
                >we are so intrigued by gives such alarm and so
                >disturbs certain segments of the population from which
                >the mummies derive, so I guess, perhaps, one of
                >us--without trying to be the skunk at the
                >picnic--needs to remember to be sensitive about this
                >topic.
                >
                >I guess it would be a question of if it were in your
                >ancestral heritage or lineage.  Would you want your
                >great-great-great-great-a thousand times
                >great-relative hanging out in that condition for the
                >world to see?

                >Indigo Nights
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                -Jim Lyons

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