Imagine how amazing you would feel as a child to have a possession of yours put on display at a museum. Even if it was temporary, you'd remember that for the rest of your days.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2024
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I was part of a summer camp that was run in conjunction with the local university where we got to design a museum exhibit and put it on at the university's museum dedicated to anthropology and culture. We got to choose the theme of the exhibit (which didn't have to fit the museum) and chose the local fossils since they were easy to find in any creek and we all loved going out and hunting them. I remember my part of the exhibit was crinoids, and I wrote the title card and designed the display- the crinoids fossils were in some sand. I don't remember much else because we're talking almost 40 years ago. But I remember how awesome it was to be in the museum and see people looking at my display.
I learned how to paint minis in the basement of a hobby shop, basically as small town daycare while my mom worked on the floor above. My very first mini got put on display in that basement next to the work by the person who taught me. It was hilariously out of place. After college I was visiting again, like 10+ years later, it was still there proudly collecting dust. The guy who taught me had apparently recently died and they were going to put a bunch of the stuff in storage since the owner was having an emotionally difficult time seeing it all there. I managed to recover my mini just to be sure it didn't get lost with everything. Now I have it proudly displayed in my room. It's seen a lot of adventures
Sounds like Bethan knows her shit, that's a pretty nice looking rock.
Best rock.
It's a very nice rock.
That's why it was her most precious rock. They wouldn't have put any old rock on display.
Update: Bethan stole that rock from a former colony. The museum said it's not giving it back
I must admit, that's a pretty interesting looking rock.
I have been waiting for someone to come in here to tell us what kind of rock it is. No such luck so far.
I believe it's made of Bethanite
Well when you put it like that it makes perfect sense.
Silicon tretraoxide most likely, if it's a terrestrial rock.
It looks kind of like a frog.
it might be made from froggalite. They should ask a geologist to confirm.
That's a one fine rock.
A very pretty rock.
That's actually pretty nice of the museum to do for her.
That’s actually pretty ~~nice~~ gneiss of the museum to do for her.
The year is 3524 AD. Probes from Alpha Centauri visited Old Earth for the first time since the Great Burning cut off all communication between Old Earth and the Five Extrasolar Colonies in 2519 AD. One of the items brought back from the ruins of an ancient museum is puzzlingly called Bethan's Rock. Historiologists are not sure who Bethan was and the significance of the otherwise mundane object. One theory is that Bethan is some sort of local "Influencer" (predecessor to the line of now banished Memetic Cyber-Daemons) and the rock is its real-world foci.
Did you ever read the David Macaulay book Motel of the Mysteries? This reminded me of that.
I know that museum, it’s very cool. Poole is a nice place.
By which I mean, only the best rocks get displayed in Poole museum. And this is the best rock.
To be fair, that's a really cool looking rock.
Cute
It's absolutely the type of rock you'd stop and pick up. It belongs in a museum...oh.
That rock looks very heist-able.
I'm seeing potential for The Great Muppet Caper 2.