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144 posts tagged “museums”

2019

Museum The Comic Rock Star’s Toilet Seat Museum — 326 Fell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Painted toilet seats in Isotope.

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I just released a major upgrade to my www.niche-museums.com website (launched last month).

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Museum Conservatory of Flowers — 100 John F Kennedy Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118
Inside the conservatory.
Museum NASA Glenn Visitor Center — Great Lakes Science Center, 601 Erieside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114
1973 Skylab 3 Apollo Command Module.
Museum Recoleta Cemetery — Junín 1760, C1113 CABA, Argentina
Inside the cemetery.
Museum Neptune Society Columbarium — One Loraine Court, San Francisco, CA 94118
Inside the Columbarium.
Museum Arizona Cactus Garden — Stanford, CA 94305
The cactus garden.
Museum House of Broel Dollhouse Museum — 2220 St Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
Dolls houses in the hall.
Museum Audium — 1616 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
Outside Audium
Museum San Francisco Cable Car Museum — 1201 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
Technicians replacing a cable.
Museum Ramen Museum — 2 Chome-14-21 Shinyokohama, Kohoku Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 222-0033, Japan
The main square
Museum Cookin' — 339 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
Inside Cookin'
Museum Wallace Collection — Hertford House, Manchester Square, London, W1U 3BN, UK
Shiny knights on horses.
Museum Dai Loy Museum, Locke — 13952 Main Street, Walnut Grove, CA 95690
Inside the gambling house.
Museum Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen — Seestraße 22, 88045 Friedrichshafen, Germany
Engine nacelle of the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
Museum California State Capitol Dioramas — State Capitol, Room B-27, 1315 10th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
Shasta County diorama

Weeknotes: Python 3.7 on Glitch, datasette-render-markdown

Streaks is really working well for me. I’m at 12 days of commits to Datasette, 16 posting a daily Niche Museum, 19 of actually reviewing my email inbox and 14 of guitar practice. I rewarded myself for that last one by purchasing an actual classical (as opposed to acoustic) guitar.

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Museum West Kern Oil Museum — 1168 Wood Street, Taft, CA 93268
An old truck and some historic oil equipment.
Museum International Women's Air & Space Museum — Burke Lakefront Airport, Room 165, 1501 North Marginal Road, Cleveland, Ohio
Photos of female astronauts.
Museum Musée des Arts et Métiers — 60 Rue Réaumur, 75003 Paris, France
Laboratoire de Lavoisier.
Museum La Galcante — 52 rue de l'Arbre Sec, 75001 Paris, France
Stacks of old magazines
Museum Barometer World — Quicksilver Barn, Merton, Okehampton, Devon EX20 3DS
A barometer
Museum Ilfracombe Museum — Wilder Road, Ilfracombe, EX34 8AF, United Kingdom
Old wedding cakes
Museum Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre — The Fairground Heritage Centre, Milford, Lifton, Devon, PL16 0AT, UK
Dodgems at Dingles

Weeknotes: More releases, more museums

Lots of small releases this week.

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Museum Autoservicio Condorito — Avenue Arístides Villanueva 644, M5500 Mendoza, Argentina
Much taxidermy.
Museum Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum — 500 Northeast Captain Michael King Smith Way, McMinnville, OR 97128
The Spruce Goose.
Museum Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter — 2560 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303
Some taxidermy birds.
Museum Mardi Gras World — 1380 Port of New Orleans Place, New Orleans, LA 70130
An artist working on a piece for a float
Museum DEVIL-ish Little Things — 3409 L Street, Vancouver, Washington
A trio of devilish mugs.