# What was your best school field trip?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-best-school-field-trip/355997
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 9, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-best-school-field-trip/355997 "2006-05-09T01:10:02Z")
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-best-school-field-trip/355997/41 "2006-05-10T19:09:16Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#):
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> Looks like I’m the first one here that grew up near Chicago. It seems to be a law that all school kids must be taken to the [Musem of Science and Industry](http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/exhome.html) at least once a year.
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> Not many museums plunge you 600 feet into the earth, into a fortuitously-located coal seam and mock-up of a coal mine.
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> Not too many museums have a full-size 727 airplane, a German submarine, or 200-foot long trains either.
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> No complaints from me!
I don’t recall ever going there with my school but the MSI was a family favorite every year.
In fact, I only remember three school field trips: [ul]walking three blocks to Verna’s Cafe for ice cream cones.[_]Going to some health museum, not sure if it was around Chicago or NYC.[_]Going to see [Gandhi](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/) in a theater.[/ul]
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### Author:  [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-best-school-field-trip/355997/42 "2006-05-10T20:47:15Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher]
Going to some health museum, not sure if it was around Chicago or NYC/QUOTE]
If it was Chicago it very well could have been the Robert Crown Center for Health, where they have the transparent lady who’s lady bits could be lit up?
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### Author:  [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-best-school-field-trip/355997/43 "2006-05-10T20:49:44Z")
Whoops, can someone fix my useless coding please? I’m really struggling today with typos and such.
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-best-school-field-trip/355997/44 "2006-05-10T23:28:50Z")
4th grade, I think. We went to a working dairy farm.
One guy named Mike slipped and fell in some cow shit. Another guy named Mike tore his pants on a barbed wire fence. There were lots of barn kitties…all of them feral and evil.
We got chocolate milk afterward. It really doesn’t come from brown cows.
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-best-school-field-trip/355997/45 "2006-05-10T23:57:48Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun]
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> Going to some health museum, not sure if it was around Chicago or NYC/QUOTE]
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> If it was Chicago it very well could have been the Robert Crown Center for Health, where they have the transparent lady who’s lady bits could be lit up?
Or the Hinsdale Health Center. I recall a couple entirely meh trips there.
The transparent lady at MSI was called TAM, or Transparent Anatomical Model, and IIRC, it had a narrated soundtrack and sections would light up as they were discussed.
Forgot to mention about MSI - It’s so huge, that it’s impossible to see it all in a day. My father grew up near there, and he said that one summer, he went there every day for a solid week and still didn’t see everything. Of course, I have no idea how fast he was going, but it was obviously at a pace meant for actually absorbing, rather than “Over there, is the coal mine, and on the left is an exhibit on coal, oil and other fossil fuels. If you step over this way, you can see a barrel of oil and an actual dinosaur skeleton. Please don’t touch the dinosaur. Now, as we continue, we’ll be entering the Printing from Gutenberg to Pagemaker exhibit…”
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-best-school-field-trip/355997/46 "2006-05-11T04:52:06Z")
The box factory. I loved the box factory.
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### Author:  [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-best-school-field-trip/355997/47 "2006-05-11T14:34:34Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> It was when it first came out in CA., but I’m thinking it premiered in NY ?
Not necessarily. Many exhibitions have originated on the West Coast, including, I think, the recent reincarnation of King Tut.
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