Depends on your yardstick for museums I guess.
Lucille, if I am offending you, I only mentioned Cleveland (never having been there) because I hear all these American comedians dissing it. Done in an effort not to offend any in Milwaukee either.
Not quite! The coastline, everything is so similar, they could merge and not much difference would be noticed. However, I wish we had a Kittery lol
Well at least the Hockey Hall of Fame would more nearly qualify, goes back further than fifty years odd.
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You probably would like to have a Freeport as well.
I do like L.L.Bean - everything I have ever bought there was a quality item - but the other places seem not so hot anymore. Stuff, and not really so much of a bargain anymore.
When we went through this summer we did stop off at Freeport, just to go to LLB and then had every intention of drifting slowly up the coast from about Belfast on. However there was an accident on the 95 and four hours later when we got on the move again it was more practical to stay on it and head up to Calais area for the night. In the end we turned right at Bangor and did that stretch of coastline and stayed short of Calais in a really 'quaint' motel run by an ex-Brit and his wife. We totally enjoyed our stop there.
Why would I be offended. I've never been in Cleveland either and I know little or nothing about it. Come to think of it, I don't even know anyone who lives there.
I guess coming from New York I can admit to being a snob when it comes to museums. Or maybe it's the fact that I just can't imagine anyone traveling thousands of miles to see something that gained popularity when I was in High School.
Lucille
True!
Rock goes back 50 years, but everyone thought it was a passing fad!
Cheryl
Continuing in the middle,
After NYC, Boston or London, no place seems to have quite the same "quality" of museums.
CFace
If you get as far south as Freeport, you may want to consider going on to Portland. The is an LLB outlet store there down the road from the Portland Museum of Art. If you get as far south as Ogunquit, give a call.
George
Hee hee! You just beat me to it - sounds like a contradiction in terms to me!
Pat P
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I'll chime in with Severance Hall (a world-class facility for certain) and Jacobs Field as bright spots in Cleveland. Can't say anything good about the Browns right now...
Well in terms of 'museums' - it won't have much that is more than fifty years old. Even the V & A which was built to house 'modern' items goes back much further than that and would take two weeks of day long visits to cover even adequately.
The V & A incidentally, should be a must for anyone visiting London, they have some wonderful needlework, mostly displayed on pull out panels. There is an incredible stumpwork box worked in the 1800s by a little girl. The needlework section alone would take a week. In the 'today' section when I last visited there was some beautiful knitting, done a woman in Llandidloes, Wales, and I am ashamed, I forget her name. Stunning knitting though, perhaps that is how it should be, I remember her knitting clearly, if not her name!
Lest we forget the wonderful Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn (near Detroit), Michigan, the Field Museum in Chicago, as well as the marvelous art museums in both cities. I'm sure there are many cities across the country with 5-star museum attractions.
I used to live near Cleveland and visited there often, but I don't remember what museums they had/have. I think their zoo is notable, and they have a well-known hospital on a par with Mayo and Mt. Sinai.
Dianne
It will probably be a couple of years. That's too bad you didn't spot us getting together in Kittery, Cheryl, her DD and Dr. Brat came over to meet up and we had a wonderful lunch together. That was in July and the culmination of a trip across Canada to Vancouver then back, mostly through the States. However, now I have found someone who likes to jump in the car and go, maybe we will be down again lol I would look forward to that.
If you are going to say Chicago, then I must add, Frank Lloyd Wright.
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I cannot vouch for Toronto, but in Montreal, Pedestrian Terrificiation is a sort of Olympic Event, where one is awarded points for causing a pedestrian to dive for safety. Point gathering factors include height of dive, number of twists or turns in the air, loss of shoes, cellphones or other accessories, and the artistic expression on the face of the pedestrian. Dawne
Now if you are talking Frank Lloyd Wright, here in Lakeland, FL, we have almost a dozen buildings at the University, which he designed!
Gillian
I love it.
Do I have your permission to send this to all my Florida friends. It's uncanny how perfectly it describes their way of driving.
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It's state of the art, houses memorabilia and artifacts dating back to the pre-rock days, the roots of rock so to speak. Not all the inductees are actually rock stars, they have given credit where credit was due to artists who laid the ground work. While rock isn't what some consider an artform, there are also some who would argue that the works in MoMA in NYC aren't art either!
Cleveland also has one of the best hands on science museums for kids that I've ever been to and a really excellent art museum, symphany orchestra and a zoo which makes the National Zoo look really pitiful by comparison.
Certainly there are a lot of cities with a lot less to offer, higher crime, less cultural attractions. It was a sign of ignorance to trash Cleveland without knowing anything about the city, imho.
Caryn
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