New Bell Museum/Planetarium
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Earth is flat tho. Moon is 300 miles away. Planets are "wandering stars" suspended in the firmament.
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That rendering of the exhibit with all the ghosts walking around looks too spooky for me
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Looks like it will be a beautiful facility. It's a bummer that this ended up in a cornfield in St. Paul. Would have been a great addition to downtown Minneapolis (or even to the main campus, where it could have been LRT adjacent).
It's pretty hard to see any out of town visitors stumbling upon it in this location.
It's pretty hard to see any out of town visitors stumbling upon it in this location.
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If the earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off of it already.
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Loads of details about the 120-seat Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Planetarium...
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events ... ell-museum
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events ... ell-museum
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120 seats seems awfully small for the Pink Floyd Laser Light Show.
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120 seats seems awfully small for the Pink Floyd Laser Light Show.
But since you mention it, the new planetarium will offer state-of-the-art projection capabilities that go beyond astronomy. Future content will include presentations of scientific research across disciplines, such as a look deep inside the human brain. Not your granddad's planetarium.
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Although I was mostly joking, there's no need to roll your eyes.
Hosting music themed shows is something that just about every prominent planetarium in the world does -- it's a good source of extra income for times when the space would otherwise be sitting empty.
Hosting music themed shows is something that just about every prominent planetarium in the world does -- it's a good source of extra income for times when the space would otherwise be sitting empty.
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Some of us remember Laser Floyd...
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Not everyone thinks DT Mpls is the cat's meow. Some of us prefer the friendlier scale and more historic nature DT St. Paul, thankyouverymuch.Looks like it will be a beautiful facility. It's a bummer that this ended up in a cornfield in St. Paul. Would have been a great addition to downtown Minneapolis (or even to the main campus, where it could have been LRT adjacent).
It's pretty hard to see any out of town visitors stumbling upon it in this location.
Even if it's not in DT St. Paul, I do tend to frequent anything in St. Paul far more often than in thr 612. And even the NY Times recently suggested that there is more to love in St. Paul. Just sayin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/trav ... ravel.html
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Speaking of NY, I recently visited the Smithsonian. I wonder how well this will stack up.
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Bell on wheels: How Minnesota's only natural history museum got from Minneapolis to St. Paul
https://www.minnpost.com/education/2017 ... is-st-paul
https://www.minnpost.com/education/2017 ... is-st-paul
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Toured the new bell today. Will post photos in a bit.
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