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I have nothing to do at work. They have taken everything away from me and expect me to look busy. I will have fallen further into the pits of insanity before this day is out.
On a slightly less insane topic, however (sort of) ...
This past Civic Monday I went to the new Canadian War Museum with the Arctic Redhead. It was my first visit to the new building, and I have to say that I was impressed. The exhibit hall was very well set up around a central hub. Each of the halls flowed logically into the next, taking the visitor from the first Canadian Wars through to the modern era, but the flow always brough you back to the hub so that you could skip an era if you wanted.
There was a lot of hands on stuff for peopel to truly get a feel for things (How heavy is a German potato masher grenade? How does one get a pith helmet to fit?) Some of the exhibits were disturbing, as they should be. What got to me the most was the footage of the shell shocked soldiers from the First World War. After going through their life-sized mockup of a battle trench, I can fully see why it happened.
There were a few exhibits from the old museum that didn't seem to make it. The three that come to mind were the Canadian POW in Japan, the FLQ Crisis, and the small exhibit on the Canadians who enlisted in the US during Vietnam. However, the exhibits did impress me, though I might have changed the wording on some.
In the 1812 exhibit there was the phrase "America invades, Canada survives." I would have said: "America invades, Canada hands them their collective asses." But hey, there's a reason I stuck to the collections rather than the exhibits.
The exhibit hall did strike me as a bit unfinished, but it will be there for a long time, and exhibits are expected to evolve. I would suggest that everyone who has an interest go see the museum.
One sad note was that the kids (pre-teen and younger) did not seem to show the respect required of some of the displays. I don't think thay really get it. A part of me hopes that they learn to show respect to war and soldiers, and a part of me hopes that they never have to 'get it'. It would mean a loss of innocence. ... Still I do have to wonder where the parents were when the kids were trying to climb on one of the larger tanks.
I have nothing to do at work. They have taken everything away from me and expect me to look busy. I will have fallen further into the pits of insanity before this day is out.
On a slightly less insane topic, however (sort of) ...
This past Civic Monday I went to the new Canadian War Museum with the Arctic Redhead. It was my first visit to the new building, and I have to say that I was impressed. The exhibit hall was very well set up around a central hub. Each of the halls flowed logically into the next, taking the visitor from the first Canadian Wars through to the modern era, but the flow always brough you back to the hub so that you could skip an era if you wanted.
There was a lot of hands on stuff for peopel to truly get a feel for things (How heavy is a German potato masher grenade? How does one get a pith helmet to fit?) Some of the exhibits were disturbing, as they should be. What got to me the most was the footage of the shell shocked soldiers from the First World War. After going through their life-sized mockup of a battle trench, I can fully see why it happened.
There were a few exhibits from the old museum that didn't seem to make it. The three that come to mind were the Canadian POW in Japan, the FLQ Crisis, and the small exhibit on the Canadians who enlisted in the US during Vietnam. However, the exhibits did impress me, though I might have changed the wording on some.
In the 1812 exhibit there was the phrase "America invades, Canada survives." I would have said: "America invades, Canada hands them their collective asses." But hey, there's a reason I stuck to the collections rather than the exhibits.
The exhibit hall did strike me as a bit unfinished, but it will be there for a long time, and exhibits are expected to evolve. I would suggest that everyone who has an interest go see the museum.
One sad note was that the kids (pre-teen and younger) did not seem to show the respect required of some of the displays. I don't think thay really get it. A part of me hopes that they learn to show respect to war and soldiers, and a part of me hopes that they never have to 'get it'. It would mean a loss of innocence. ... Still I do have to wonder where the parents were when the kids were trying to climb on one of the larger tanks.
