I wanted to do something unusual this weekend because it’s an unusually long weekend. I briefly considered an overnight in a hotel, but I have to play piano for the childrens choir this morning in church, so I had to stay local.
Instead, I asked Denis to go on a road trip. We decided to visit the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. I hear about it every once in a while and have been curious about it. It is a collection of medical specimens and oddities originally gathered for doctors to look at. Now it’s open to the public.
It was a really cool old building.
It was smaller than I thought, and really crowded. It was interesting though. They don’t let you take pictures inside because many of the displays are actual body parts from actual people, and they say pictures would be disrespectful. I only got slightly queasy. There were LOTS of fetuses in jars.
After the museum, we went to King of Prussia mall. I have been there before, but I forgot how truly gigantic it is. We walked and walked and walked, and I still think we might have missed some of the mall. It was cool though.
They have every store imaginable.
I’ve been to the King of Prussia mall! It was for that Terry Lynne Lockhart grant that I barely remember.
The museum sounds gross and cool. When I was in high school we went to some science museum in Chicago and along the stair landing it had slices of …. I can’t go on. It was too jibblie.
Great day! Go and have another!
I was totally confused for a moment. I thought that was the MUMMER museum – the group that has a zany New Year’s Day parade – and I did not understand why they would have medical things there. I get it now. Cool.
I’ve been to that mall also, I think. Is it near Valley Forge and a vacuum cleaner store with a giant vacuum cleaner in front?
Ha! I saw that giant vacuum cleaner!