Post by Mick on Mar 16, 2018 1:38:25 GMT
I love to visit museums whenever I get the chance, especially small local history museums. Once in a while I find something philatelic that may be fun to share, but not really worthy of its own thread. So here is a space where we can post those small, incidental finds. (Incidentally, I thought that I had already created a thread like this, but a search came up blank. If in fact I did already make a museum thread, admins feel free to move this post there.)
Last week my wife and I spent a few days in Albuquerque for a friend's wedding. We were busy with wedding chores most of the time, but did get the opportunity to visit a couple of museums.
The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
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I learned a great deal about the history of nuclear physics and The Bomb from this museum. Not much philatelic, except for this set of US Postal Savings stamps.
The Nuclear Museum was informative enough, but I really prefer the smaller, less professional ones. The kind of museum that is based around the idiosyncrasies of their curators. So the next place that we visited was the
American International Rattlesnake Museum
In addition to many tanks of rattlesnakes, other reptiles, spiders, and scorpions, the owner also has some fun collections of snake related materials. For instance, cans of soda and beer with snake names. And a nice collection of covers with snake related postmarks. I took a picture of each one, but the results were pretty lousy. Below is the best of the bunch - they are not very good, but the others are even worse.
Other cancels included Rattlesnake Buttes, CO, Rattlesnake, MT, Snake River, WA, Turtle Creek, PA, Rattlesnake, OH, Viper, KY, Rattlesnake, CA, Turtle Creek, PA, and Alligator, MS.
Last week my wife and I spent a few days in Albuquerque for a friend's wedding. We were busy with wedding chores most of the time, but did get the opportunity to visit a couple of museums.
The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
.
I learned a great deal about the history of nuclear physics and The Bomb from this museum. Not much philatelic, except for this set of US Postal Savings stamps.
The Nuclear Museum was informative enough, but I really prefer the smaller, less professional ones. The kind of museum that is based around the idiosyncrasies of their curators. So the next place that we visited was the
American International Rattlesnake Museum
In addition to many tanks of rattlesnakes, other reptiles, spiders, and scorpions, the owner also has some fun collections of snake related materials. For instance, cans of soda and beer with snake names. And a nice collection of covers with snake related postmarks. I took a picture of each one, but the results were pretty lousy. Below is the best of the bunch - they are not very good, but the others are even worse.
Other cancels included Rattlesnake Buttes, CO, Rattlesnake, MT, Snake River, WA, Turtle Creek, PA, Rattlesnake, OH, Viper, KY, Rattlesnake, CA, Turtle Creek, PA, and Alligator, MS.
