I haven't been very good at doing touristy DC things since I've been here, mostly because of work and because I made an initial touristy trip last September. We didn't feeling like being uber-homebodies this weekend though, so ended up at the National Archives.
I LOVE the National Archives.
It's everything I like about museums (old pictures, old documents, statistics, bureaucratic papers, architectural and scientific designs, Marbury v. Madison) and nothing of what I dislike (colonial history, overly wordy description, overly simplified descriptions, poor choice of colour in displays). They had an entire section devoted to patents. They were selling ties with Thomas Edison's patent drawings of the electric lighbulb stitched into it. They had stuffed donkeys next to stuffed elephants. It was fantastic.
I LOVE the National Archives.
It's everything I like about museums (old pictures, old documents, statistics, bureaucratic papers, architectural and scientific designs, Marbury v. Madison) and nothing of what I dislike (colonial history, overly wordy description, overly simplified descriptions, poor choice of colour in displays). They had an entire section devoted to patents. They were selling ties with Thomas Edison's patent drawings of the electric lighbulb stitched into it. They had stuffed donkeys next to stuffed elephants. It was fantastic.
