Comments on: Are you an art gallery or science museum person, and can you be both?

By: Abi from Inside the Travel Lab

Abi from Inside the Travel Lab — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:15:50 +0000

Thanks Andy – it was a very interesting experience but I’m not sure it’d help you convince your wife to watch a game there !

By: Andy Hayes | Sharing Travel Experiences

Andy Hayes | Sharing Travel Experiences — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:32:25 +0000

A good museum is a good museum, art or science or otherwise. So, I’m both

By: Andy Jarosz

Andy Jarosz — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:01:52 +0000

Have you written up your Santiago football experience Abi? It sounds like a good story waiting to be told!

By: Abi from Inside the Travel Lab

Abi from Inside the Travel Lab — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:57:25 +0000

Ha! I did go to a football match in Santiago and found it fascinating – although I think it was the heavy-handed “crowd control” techniques that caught my attention rather than the football itself…

By: Andy Jarosz

Andy Jarosz — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:03:15 +0000

Abi, I’m with you on the history stuff too (more the 19th/20th century than pre-historic though). As for your indifference to sports, I reckon there’s many out there who are at the extreme opinions on that topic (I’m a big sports fan, but would never convince my wife of the cultural value of going to watch a football match in Brazil or Turkey)

Karen, it makes perfect sense. Science museums are far more interactive and made for kids. Buttons to press, levers to pull… visiting a gallery with small children must be a challenge.

Nancy, it’s no wonder you were into natural wonders with your father’s job! Like you say, there’s no doubt a range of preferences, and thankfully enough opportunities for us all to enjoy what we like.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:41:45 +0000

I loved natural wonders as a kid. My father was a Earth science teacher, so I began learning about geology, meteorology, etc., at an early age.

But as a teen I discovered the arts, and that’s what I’ve preferred ever since.

So I’d take an art gallery over a science museum. But I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who like both equally. (And others who have flip-flopped, like me.)

By: Karen Wise

Karen Wise — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:05:01 +0000

Right now, because we have two small children, we’re more science museum types. In our recent trip to Australia we visited two excellent museums for kids: the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney: it has a brilliant building section which appealed to my two year old who is into Bob the Builder right now; and the Science Museum in Brisbane, where my four year old spent five hours (two visits in one day!) exploring, playing and learning.

By: Abi from Inside the Travel Lab

Abi from Inside the Travel Lab — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:52:31 +0000

No, I manage to be both an art and science museum geek and will throw history into the mix as well. Sport and music, though…I’ve walked around Grand Prix circuits and sat in concert halls to keep my friends happy but I’d never make the effort to go there on my own.