{"id":21311,"date":"2014-10-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=21311"},"modified":"2019-06-25T13:12:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T20:12:50","slug":"seattle-museum-of-history-and-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/seattle-museum-of-history-and-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seattle Museum of History and Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Seattle Museum of History and Industry (or MOHAI) manages to perfectly blend education and fun, which I personally believe is the sweet spot for most museums. Not all–you don’t want to risk making light of some serious topics–but there are plenty of museums that can benefit from some interactivity or lightheartedness to keep the tone from being too dry. MOHAI nails it, pumping visitors full of information in an entertaining fashion with a bit of quirkiness as well. It’s like they made the museum specifically to appeal to me–I best retain information when it’s conveyed with a sense of humor.<\/p>\n

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Each part of this display has an interactive component–some parts light up. The orcas jump in the waves. The sushi rolls down the conveyer belt. The clam pedals its bicycle. Black Bart draws his gun. It is so flipping cool<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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They also have one of the two Toe Trucks on display–the left. Where the right one is, I’m not sure, but I remember reading about the Toe Trucks way back when I bought my first Roadside America book something like twenty years ago, so it was very cool to finally see one in person.<\/p>\n

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They also had the best educational video I’ve ever seen. When my friend and I decided to swing back by the room about the Seattle fire when the video was scheduled to start, neither one of us expected the hilarity that was about to unfold in front of us.<\/p>\n