Museums that I have visited and you should too!

7 min readApr 7, 2024

Castle Air Museum, Atwater,California
There were approximately 80+ aeroplanes ranging from various times placed in the ground in open air. It allows you to closely observe and touch every parts of aeroplanes and see differences on how each is designed for various purposes. You could also see live repairs that directs your imagination of thinking a plane just like another car with slight different design and different fuel!

Any function you observe in one machine can be leveraged to assimilate into another!

Get your checklist right or risk an accident!

Thornberry Museum, Yosemite, California

Dedication of an old man to explain the artifacts in the museum was inspirational in one word. Museum had earlier version of refrigerators, washing machines, stoves, irons etc. They will make you feel “Damn! how far have we come?”

Forestiere underground gardens museum, Fresno

Everything made with love, patience and hard work is valuable!

The museum offers very different experience as compared to other ones, the underground house was aesthetically not very impressive but the effort Forestiere put was visible, he did all the work by himself in the span of 40 years. Perseverance in one word.
Just do the work!

Cable Car Museum, SF

The only working cable car system in the world.

Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, California

Humans love progress, anyone who does not ? Today we talk about 3D, VR, spatial computing!

California Automobile Museum, Sacramento

The skeleton of a car makes it easier to see what’s inside the car!

California Agriculture Museum, woodland, California

All the agricultural tools used in the process of keeping food to our table.
It is a worth reflecting how farmers took innovative approaches to farming and transformed machines for specialized farming functions.

Machines used in Agriculture are whole another level of study! Seeing machines progress over time to serve various unique functions was very fulfilling!

California being the major agricultural state demands the presence of an agricultural museum and this museum answers most of the questions related to Agricultural history. Horses were tractors of 19th century agriculture.

Innovative state of California has innovation in almost every sector!

Mechanization of Agriculture works: humans ->oxen -> horses -> machines -> robots !

Nevada state museum (mining +minting), Carson city, Nevada

This museum was like a simulation of mining.
Not just it offered the simulation of all the things that a miner has to do underground, it also became a starting point museum that allowed me to generate interest in all the instruments used in getting to the final product.
It felt some sort of strange satisfying feeling (it could be depiction of some sort of personality lol!) of easing the visualization of “how things work”!
every single object lying in the museum felt so special and important to study for some weird reason. Curiosity was at max for every single things lying the museum. various factors could have led to such thoughts!

square set stope: “model shows how large veins are mined with square set timbering. Ore is dug at top, then dropped down chutes to cars for hoisting to the surface!” A great invention that saved thousands of miners!

Board describing the contribution of Phlip Diedesheimer.

Here is a story about Philip Diedesheimer on Bonanza TV show and how he came up with the idea of square set stope. Hints: Biomimicry!

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento (1885)
Computer History Museum, Mountain View
Folsom powerhouse museum, Folsom
California railroad museum, Sacramento
Exploratorium, San francisco
USS Hornet — Sea, Air and Space Museum, Alameda

Hoover Dam museum, Las Vegas, Nevada
The mob museum, Las Vegas, Nevada
Lowell observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona- Pluto discovered here

USS Midway 42 museum, San Diego
The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum, Carlsbad
The Getty art museum, Los Angeles
The Hollywood museum, Los Angeles
The Broad art museum, Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Historic Cucamonga Service Station museum, Rancho Cucamonga

Natural history museum, DC
International Spy museum, DC

NASA Goddard visitor center science museum, Goddard, Maryland
National Cryptologic Museum, Annapolis junction, Maryland
Space and Air museum, chantilly, Virginia

Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore, Maryland

The museum made me think about so many things all at once and made me feel to take nothing for granted, nothing! everything around you is an innovation, observation, improvement and hard work of hundreds if not thousands years.

with the rise of AI, what new profession will be born ?

Also it was at this museum where my suppressed curiosity from childhood surfaced. When I was young, my mom used to take me to jewelry shop and I used to wander how are shape of jewelry made ?
Where does the gold come from ?
But, I never asked such questions to anyone and i don’t know why.
With no ignition of such curiosity again, my questions got pushed into my unconscious only for BMI to ignite it again for the good.

This section of museum accessed the curiosity from the hard disk aka unconscious as it talked about machinists, blacksmiths, melting, hammering, casting, trimming, molding, ironworks, metalworkers etc!

Space and Air museum, DC

The first successful flight in aviation history flew for 12 seconds. The first successful rocket flew up for 205 feet in 3.2 seconds.

This museum is one of my favorites and it provides insights on courage and possibilities of innovations.
This museum probably offers the most thorough explanation of what went into the making of the first plane that flew for 12 seconds.

Wright brothers’ pre aeronautical profession was building and fixing bikes, me next to their bike! working as a mechanics became an outlet for their mechanical interests!

National museum of Mathematics, New York

Animals teach us many things we just need to observe them more!

Da Vinci had an acumen for so many things — maybe because he was never taught what exactly to learn?

Museum of Modern Art(MoMA), New York

This was a “take nothing for granted” and “respect the amount of hard work it takes to build even one animation character” moment!

What’s the first thought you got seeing the picture above ?

MOMA also acknowledges the amount of work it takes!

Just some words manufactured, adopted and poured by us in the Universe, do not let your creation harm you!

Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, Dallas, Texas
Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, Texas
National Video Game museum, Frisco, Texas
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Nikola Tesla Laboratory Historical Marker, Colorado Springs

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Architectural wonders:
Brooklyn bridge, New York
Sundial Bridge, Redding, California
Hoover Dam, Nevada
NCAR building, Boulder, Colorado
Eiffel Tower, France

more later…

France

Conciergerie — art museum, Paris
Louvre Museum, Paris
Petit Palais Art museum, Paris
Palais Garnier museum, Paris
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, architectural wonder

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Germany

Hohenzollern Castle + museum
Mainau Island
Lindau Island
Meersburg German poet house and museum

The schools in the island is similar to the possible schools/ or say home school in the remote villages

Canada
Royal Ontario Museum(ROM), Toronto
Little Canada Museum, Toronto
Art Gallery of Canada(AGO), Toronto

The above art was special in a way that it’s simply made out of lines.
Casa Loma museum, Toronto
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7 wonders
Hoover Dam
Niagara falls
Grand Canyon
more later…

Nepal
National Art museum, Bhaktapur, Nepal: 2017 B.S.
“were there nothing else in Nepal, save the Durbar Square of Bhatgaun, it would still be amply worth making a journey half way round the globe to see.” — E.A. Powell (The last home of Mystery) 1929, London

Patan Museum

Hanuman Dhoka Museum, Kathmandu

National Museum of Nepal, Kathmandu

BP Koirala Memorial Planetarium, Observatory and Science Museum

National innovation center, Kritipur

Museum of Nepali Art-MOMA, Kathmandu
Mahakabi laxmi prasad Devkota Museum, Kathmandu

Lama Thanka Center, Bhaktapur
Kritipur Library, Kritipur
Kaiser Library, Kathmandu

Chinese Cultural Center
Russian Centre of Science and Culture
alliance francaise, Kathmandu
Nepal Japan children’s library
Narayanhiti palace museum — not in last 2 years
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MEMORIALS
Thomas Jefferson
MLK
Abraham Lincoln
George Mason
Dwight D Eisenhower
FDR
Washington monument