Night at the Museum


"I'll have 2 tickets to 'Night at the Opera' please". "Huh?", the ticket agent was clearly puzzled. "Oh, I mean 'at the Museum'. My faux pas, but I was amused that it seemed she had never even heard of this classic title.

Well, the movie itself was fun. Good escapist, funny story. Not great, mind you, but okay.

What was fun, though, is a few weeks later we went to New York. So, I took François to the real Museum of Natural History near Central Park. The movie had clearly drawn in several visitors, because we overheard tourists referencing the movie several times during our explorations. And like them, we were disappointed at how little the movie looked like the museum. Except for the Easter Island statue - and maybe you can count the bronze statue of Teddy Roosevelt - nothing was the same. No diaromas, no cave men, no Genghis Khan or even Sacajawea, who is nearly a central focus of the movie.

Unless we managed to miss these exhibits in our tour! It's certainly a big place, and François enjoyed the museum immensely, despite it's lack of resemblance to the movie :)

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Posted: Fri - December 29, 2006 at 08:55 PM

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