Comments on: The Old Academy of Science

By: MrEricSir

MrEricSir — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:25:30 +0000

Earthquake exhibit FTW!

The pendulum is still there.

By: nattles

nattles — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:44:28 +0000

this detail seems most important to me as well.

By: science geek

science geek — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:10:06 +0000

adam called it. the new aquarium is incredible, but please bring back the bones and rocks!

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 08:04:55 +0000

The new courtyard acts more as a part of the system, as a vent for removing hot air from the building, than as an essential space, a place people want to hang out. All around you you can see the museum exhibits happening, but there is nothing to see in the courtyard itself.

The main thing I miss about the old academy is that it felt like a museum, and the new academy feels like a discovery channel documentary. The pendulum, the earthquake exhibit, the aquarium room where you were surrounded by circling fish, and the old alligator room. The planetarium now is basically an Imax. The old planetarium had the one-of-a-kind projector, made by hand at the academy. I forget what they did with it. Basically a few things that I miss.

By: Ariel Dovas

Ariel Dovas — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:41:36 +0000

Dude, you have screenshots from years ago just kickin’ it on your desktop??

By: Dixter

Dixter — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:20:28 +0000

The new academy feels like a cheap and plastic combination of Target and an airport shopping mall. I hate it.

By: Maharba

Maharba — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:24:45 +0000

Safequake!

By: Al

Al — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 06:44:29 +0000

Yes! The new ‘courtyard’ is a pretty dismal place, isn’t it?

By: MrEricSir

MrEricSir — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:16:56 +0000

Ya know, I kinda miss the old Academy. The new place is really small compared to he original. And there’s no animatronic dinosaurs.

By: MrEricSir

MrEricSir — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:15:41 +0000

No way dude. No amount of drugs could have made that entertaining.

By: Ferocious Foot Odor

Ferocious Foot Odor — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 02:47:01 +0000

If I were a billionaire, I would stage an “action” at the place: pay a bunch of clever people to go in and quickly assemble a “child-eating plant” display, place a screaming and well paid child actor inside its giant maw, and turn on my Flip Video.

Just sayin’

By: joshua

joshua — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:20:51 +0000

uh, I used to work there, don’t assume, things’ll get ugly fast.

By: Glenparker

Glenparker — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:11:29 +0000

The best part was Lazerium. “Oh the wheel in the sky keeps on turning…”

By: mary

mary — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:51:58 +0000

i was in 4th or 5th grade on a trip there. it was st. patrick’s day. i was sitting with some friends on the steps at the back of the courtyard, waiting for the st. patrick’s day festivities to begin. the festivities included snakes. as they carried these huge boa constrictors out the doors behind me, they lugged them over our heads. one of the snakes took a gigantic crap on my shoulder and head.

i loved that courtyard.

By: Scott McDowell

Scott McDowell — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:45:15 +0000

The new museum is fresh! But I’m so glad someone else pointed out the tragic loss of that courtyard. I think my favorite part of visiting the old museum was seeing the courtyard and remembering field trip lunches.

Celery & peanut butter, nature valley granola bars, tunafish sandwiches…