Sunday, May 30, 2010

46. Go to at least 10 different museums

Last weekend I hit number 9. I went to the grand re-opening of the Museum of Nature.

I have been working at the Canadian Museums Association for the past few months and early in the month we received a mystery package from the Museum of Nature. We received a few guess passes for the museum, but by the time they came to my department there was only one left which sparked off an intense thumb-wrestling tournament, after which, of course, I lost. Actually, it was a little more barbaric than that, we picked names out of a hat.

I was very disappointed when I did not win the guest-pass, but then a week later we got another package in the mail, and as it turns out, the Museum was handing out passes as if they were bread and butter. So in the end, I got to check out the museum, plus I got escorted to the front of the line (which had an hour-long wait). It was decent. And then I left.