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Monday, April 9, 2018

Fairbanks


Yesterday, as part of an assignment for the class I’m taking, I had to go to a natural history museum. I chose the Faibanks Museum in St. Johnsbury, VT. The Fairbanks Museum was founded in 1889 by St. Johnsbury industrialist Franklin Fairbanks.

Inside the classic Victorian building, you find a dazzling array of animals and artifacts, dolls and tools, shells and fossils, and much more! When Franklin Fairbanks opened the doors to this Museum in St. Johnsbury over a century ago, he invited all of New England to see beyond the horizon by bringing exquisite examples of natural science and beautiful artifacts from around the world to his home town. Inside, the collections include:

  • natural science specimens (mounted birds, mammals, reptiles and fish; insects; nests and eggs; shells; fossils; rocks and minerals; herbarium)
  • historical artifacts (tools; toys; dolls; textiles; weapons; archival photographs and documents)
  • ethnological items representing Oceania, the Near East, Africa, Egypt, Japan and native North America.

It was a small museum but very interesting. The sheer number of birds in the collection is astounding.

I’d have liked to have gone to another museum while I was there. The Atheneum, which is the public library and art museum is supposed to be quite fabulous but sadly it was closed on Sunday. Another museum was also closed on Sunday, and yet another was closed for the winter. So, I only got to see the Fairbanks Museum.

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1 comment:

  1. JiELApril 9, 2018 at 3:27 PM

    I can quite understand your frustration not to be able to make more visits.

    In May 1989, my son and I were part of a choir and did a nice trip to France and Belgium for many concerts we did.

    On de last Sunday of our tour, we had the privilege to sing a mass at Notre Dame of Paris. After we did tour on the Seine and got to climb on top of Eiffel tour.

    On Monday, we tried to visit the Louvre or the Musée d'Orsay BUT we then knew that ALL the museums in Paris are CLOSED on Mondays...

    This is such ridiculous when you know that Paris is one of the MAIN touristic place many are going to visit in the world.

    I know that the museum's staff have to do some work in the museums sometime but why isn't it done during night time like in metro systems etc.. ?

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