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beka valentine · 2w
you may not be able to touch the dinosaurs and learn how paleontologists excavate a fossil in a hands on fashion, but you can at least stand under an imposing T. Rex or Brontosaurus, and think "my gos...
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you can stand underneath a plane or a rocket ship, you can be engulfed in a model of the solar system

and beyond that, the building itself, a beautiful artifact that engulfs them all, symbolic of humanity's attempts to make sense of the world and bring it into our understanding
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beka valentine · 2w
but CAS, Exploratorium, Lawrence Hall, and even CHM, they communicate "this is a place to warehouse knowledge, store it away, and maybe give you vague glimpses, but certainly not a place to exalt in it"