Museum Madness

 

The American History  is home to many artifacts from the past. Both Chelsea and Iris were excited to see the kitchen of cooking TV queen Julia Child. Julia had her Cambridge kitchen sent to the Smithsonian to be put on display. The exhibit is one of the most popular in the museum and it showed as it was pretty packed. Zach checked out many of the other exhibits at the American history including one about transportation. Fun fact: The first cross country trip by car was in 1903 and was done after one person bet the other that it could not be done.

The Air and Space Museum is considered one of the most popular in DC. It is fascinating to see the different crafts used to get into space. The museum feels very dated. The exhibit on the “space race” ends in 1983 where we hope that one day the Americans and the soviets can be friends together in outer space travel. There are no exhibits about space since 1983. So much has happened since the end of the Apollo missions. Fun Fact: Coke and Pepsi had their own space race for having their soda in space.

As you can see by the mail sent counter that we (or more like Chelsea and Iris) love to send snail mail, so it was no surprise that a good chunk of time was spent at the National Postal Museum. The exhibit on direct mail (don’t call it junk mail) was a mixture of fun and annoying as you go through different touch screens giving info on yourself. At the end you got a junk mail letter (I mean direct mail letter) with your picture and a coupon for 10% off at the gift shop. There was also an exhibit on the first postal route connecting (wait for it) Boston to Philadelphia. Chelsea and Iris ended the visit by going to the stamp shop. They were like two kids in a candy store as they got all different kinds of stamps. Fun Fact: In 1888 a stray named Owney was adopted by the Albany Post Office and become the first postal mascot.