I’ve been to quite a few:
-the “Longyear” Museum (Brookline, MA)-nothing but boring old letters and historical documents, of early members of the CS Church
-the “Sex” Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands-a real snoozefest
-the Museum of Science, Boston, MA (some of the exhibits haven’t changed in 40 years)
-Agricultural Museum (Bellows Falls, VT)-I never knew old farm tools could e so boring
Anybody know some really boring museums in Florida? i plan a visit this March-so let me know some good places to nod out!
The Four Corners monument/marker whatever between New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah.
Don’t ever, ever, ever, take your children there if you have them. Trust me, they don’t want to see it.
The naval museum in Lisbon was pretty dry. Make that VERY dry. The curator should’ve been dragged outside and shot for making such an interesting topic so utterly stultifying.
It does redeem itself when you get to the end and walk into a giant hangar filled with various decommissioned boats of cultural or historical significant, including several royal barges that are really quite impressive.
Someone will hate me for this, but the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Good GOD, art is so mind numbingly boring, I don’t know how anyone can stand it. I mean, how many fucking paintings of Jesus or different saints can you look at and still be impressed?
The V&A, London.
Well, I suppose some people probably like looking at Victorian teapots and so on, but it does nothing for me.
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The Museum of Science has changed fantastically since the 1970s. The only parts that haven’t are the wildlife dioramas and the hunter’s trophy room* Everything else has changed. And been updated, and they keep rotating interactive exhibits. The MOS is boring???Then I gotta turn in my membership.
*. (And they could keep those unchanged – the wildlife dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History haven’t changed significantly since the 1930s. The Hall of Northwest Indians has a floor tile and exhibit cases that go back farther than that. Some things are good to keep)
Let me just say, AVOID the torture museum in Prague.
Lots o’ tourist hype, snoozefest lameness inside. I think half the “real devices” are fake.
The Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, Canada put me to sleep on my feet.
Beautiful building, though.
The Insectarium in Montreal is dreadfully dull. Just a bunch of dead bugs pinned up in display cases.
The adjacent Botanical Gardens and BioDome are great. The bug museum, not so much.
my kids loved it and thought it was cool - even made me take pics of them in various poses.
Stuhr museum, GI NE. The coolest feature they had was the steam engine but I believe that has been retired (they took it out of retirement when “Sarah, Plain and Tall” was shot on location.). Of course, maybe I find it boring because we were always goin there and nothing ever changed. Ft Kearney was another.
Ellis Island, New Jersey/New York.
Trust me, on the sixth trip, I wanted to jump into the bay and swim home my damn self. :rolleyes:
Yeah, the plight of the immigrants is heartbreaking. Those courageous souls. Poverty. Terrific. I’ve been there six damn times (two with family, three with grade/middle school, and one youth group trip). They haven’t changed a damn thing.
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I’d rather go to that torture museum in Prague (a la clnilsen) and be locked up in one of the exhibits.
I thought this thread a sacrilege, given how much I love museums, but you gotta admit, some suck.
Our very own Greenfield Village/Henry Ford Museum is pretty much the reason I hated history as a child. Do you know how interesting log cabins and old cars were to me when I was 10? About as interesting as they are now… not at all. The highlight of those damn field trips was visiting Noah Webster’s house, and even that was sort of stupid.
And… I am about to say a horrendous thing, but I saw the Matisse museum in Nice, France… and remember thinking, ''Huh… this guy’s not really all that great, is he?" I didn’t have a lot of previous exposure to this artist, all the exhibits were in French (which I don’t speak), it was 104F that day… so it was basically just looking at a bunch of sketches out of context. There was nowhere to sit or view the paintings, and I was sick… I ended up walking out. I would give it another chance, though.
The UFO Museum in Roswell. I’ve been there twice, once as an unhappy teenager on a family vacation (coming back from Carlsbad), and then again recently on a trip to Carlsbad with my girlfriend (which makes a lot more things palatable.) A lot of it is rather boring and it can even be hard to just make fun of it.
The Barbie Museum near Las Vegas isn’t boring, exactly… it’s just not at all what I expected. 
There’s some museum on Martha’s Vineyard–I cannot recall the name of it–that was dull in the extreme. I cannot remember a single exhibit --I began to want to see a whale or scrimshaw or something. I do remember a few very old wooden chairs that were less than exciting.
I second Greenfield Village–wtf does that thing exist for? It’s like the Greenfield Death March (I’ve been twice, The Husband likes it). I don’t WANT to see the test tube that supposedly holds Thomas Edison’s last breath. Or was it Ford’s? I don’t know. I don’t care. I don’t need to see huge diesel or steam engines–go watch Thomas the Tank-at least those are really useful engines! GV is an amalgamation of old, dusty estate and yard sale crap.
That said, the Smithsonian is ok with me. Go figure.
I dare you to come up with a more boring museum concept than the Mustard Museum of Mount Horeb, WI. As boring as the idea is, the actual museum is MORE boring.
The Rockpile Museum of Gillette, Wyoming. (Which my family only patronized because the car broke down. It happened across the street from the Chevy Dealership of Gillette, Wyoming.)
I never knew there were so many different varieties of barbed wire.
Four Corners is at least good for silly pictures and Navajo tacos.
Any museum with a multimedia display, which I despise. They seem to use them to the exclusion of any actual content, are never impressive, and are never informative. The only time they’re of any use whatever is for the sheer camp value (such as the son et lumiere at Notre Dame Basilica)
I second the “!!!”. I went there about three years ago and thought it was fantastic.
I see that someone already beat me to the Roswell UFO museum (although I will say that the peoplewatching there was fascinating), the Four Corners parking lot and turnaround, and Greenfield Village, so I will just add the Niagara Gorge Discovery Center. Not precisely a museum as such–devoid of antique teapots and such–but the only discovery we made was how someone managed to make the Niagara Gorge boring. Ride the Maid of the Mist again instead, if you’re looking for an after-lunch entertainment.