I guess those of us posting to the list these days are not at AAM,
but I was hoping that AAM would have had a showing of the Mr. Bean
movie. It is all about museums and probably much funnier to museum
people than to most of the public. If it's on video by now it would
be fun to have an after-hours showing for museum staff.
Mary Day Kent
University of Pennsylvania Museum



>'The Simpsons' have been spoofing museums for years including Children's
>Museums, Historical Societies, Living History Museum,  Military Battle
>Fields & Reenactments, and now I guess the Smithsonian (although I missed
>last night's.)  My personal favorite is when Bart, visiting the home of
>Jebidiah Springfield (or was that Historic Springfield I forget, founder
>of the town, silver tongues pirate, and originator of whacking day ,
>notes that the docent's talk directly contradicts the introductory
>video's account of Jebediah's whereabouts on the day he whacked his first
>snake.  The docent then put into motion the security team that whisked
>him out of the museum for figuring out their secret.  Would that we all
>had such security systems for those unruly guests   :  )
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>Maybe a future AAM session can be just a bunch of us sitting around
>wathcing those episodes.
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>Followed by the appropriate scholarly discussion of course.
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>Matthew White
>Director of Education
>B&O Railroad Museum
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