museums
Random Stuff
Welcome To The Meat Museum
8:40AM Adam Frucci | You think the cheeseburger in a can, bacon in a can and whole chicken in a can are disgusting? You don’t know disgusting. How about sheep’s head in a can? Or “Lunch Tongue”? Welcome to the Meat Museum. More »
Cameras
I Could Spend All Day at the Canon Camera Museum
4:00AM Matt Buchanan | I wish every company who made gadgets did this: The Canon Camera Museum is a comprehensive virtual tour of Canon’s camera history. Every DSLR, film camera and point-and-shoot, the history of Canon design and technology, random trivia, it’s all there. [Canon via Retro Thing via Wired] More »
Science
The Quest to Save Nikola Tesla’s Craziest, Most Impractical Project’s Site
3:45PM Dan Nosowitz | Tesla is as known for what he couldn’t manage to accomplish as for what he did, and his admirers are doing their best to save the site of his ballsiest, most outlandish failure. More »
Gadgets
Museum Exhibit Explores Rome Through iMacs and Augmented Reality
3:40AM Mark Wilson | Visitors to the Allard Pierson Museum will get to partake in an exhibit showcasing ancient Rome through augmented reality. More »
Entertainment
James Bond Museum Permanently Blows Bond’s Cover
5:40AM Mark Wilson | After 20 years of collecting, one Bond enthusiast has amassed enough James Bond memorabilia to open a museum. More »
Toys
Action Figure Museum Turns a Nerd’s Bedroom Into an Art Gallery
2:30AM Adam Frucci | Kevin Stark has a bit of an obsession with collecting action figures. But instead of hiding his nerdy hobby, he’s turned it into a business by opening The Toy and Action Figure Museum. More »
Screens
1000-Year-Old Runestone Converted into a Digital Projection Wonder
9:08PM John Herrman | Museums—especially history museums—often have a hard time keeping incorporating new technology into their staid exhibits. That is, museums that don’t happen to be in Randers, Denmark. More »
Gadgets
Video of Gigantic Goldberg Machine Runs for More Than 20 Minutes
3:44PM Jesus Diaz | More than 1,300 nutters participated in the Mother of all Goldberg Machines, the biggest chain reaction this side of Big Bang, the 11th Annual Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction organised by the MIT Museum. More »
Toys
9:30AM Nick Broughall | One thing I forgot to mention in yesterday’s coverage of the new Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit at the Sydney powerhouse Museum is that it’s a merchandisers dream. And not just the regular Star Wars crap you can pick up at Go-Lo for a couple of bucks either – they’ve got full-sized Master Replica lightsabers, Lego sets (although not the Death Star diorama or the Millennium Falcon), R2-D2 plush back packs and more bobble-heads than I’ve ever seen gathered at one place at a time – seriously, if there was an earthquake, there would be enough bobbling to cause an aftershock just inside the Powerhouse. Nothing there is cheap, but if you’re a collector, you may find something at the exhibition you haven’t been able to pick up in Australia before…
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Get Your Star Wars Merchandise At The Powerhouse Museum Exhibition
9:30AM Nick Broughall | One thing I forgot to mention in yesterday’s coverage of the new Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit at the Sydney powerhouse Museum is that it’s a merchandisers dream. And not just the regular Star Wars crap you can pick up at Go-Lo for a couple of bucks either – they’ve got full-sized Master Replica lightsabers, Lego sets (although not the Death Star diorama or the Millennium Falcon), R2-D2 plush back packs and more bobble-heads than I’ve ever seen gathered at one place at a time – seriously, if there was an earthquake, there would be enough bobbling to cause an aftershock just inside the Powerhouse. Nothing there is cheap, but if you’re a collector, you may find something at the exhibition you haven’t been able to pick up in Australia before…
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Science
2:45PM Nick Broughall | Sydneysiders bitter about the fact that the Game On gaming expo seemed to bunny hop right over the nation’s largest city can feel some relief today with the opening of the “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” exhibition at the Powerhouse museum. The exhibit brings together props and costumes from all six of the Star Wars films, and combines them with interviews from key people involved in the production of the films. But then it combines all of that with an intelligent look at the science in the sci-fi, by showcasing just where we are today in creating some of the technologies of a Galaxy far, far away. More »
Star Wars Universe Invades Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum
2:45PM Nick Broughall | Sydneysiders bitter about the fact that the Game On gaming expo seemed to bunny hop right over the nation’s largest city can feel some relief today with the opening of the “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” exhibition at the Powerhouse museum. The exhibit brings together props and costumes from all six of the Star Wars films, and combines them with interviews from key people involved in the production of the films. But then it combines all of that with an intelligent look at the science in the sci-fi, by showcasing just where we are today in creating some of the technologies of a Galaxy far, far away. More » 
