{"id":3261,"date":"2009-03-21T13:11:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T13:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/2009\/03\/21\/impressive-science\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T17:28:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T17:28:26","slug":"impressive-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/impressive-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href =\"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090323131145_21.03.2009_daniel_kaspar_jacobs-ladder.jpg\"><img width=\"730\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090323131145_21.03.2009_daniel_kaspar_jacobs-ladder.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090323131145_21.03.2009_daniel_kaspar_jacobs-ladder.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090323131145_21.03.2009_daniel_kaspar_jacobs-ladder-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I visited the Natural History Museum the other day. There is a trend I have been noticing in the last couple of years. Museums used to be inspiring places of science with many exhibits, enabling the visitor to focus and to take an in-depth look at the subject. I remember when I visited the British Museum for the first time, there was an entire wing dedicated to Greek red-figure and black-figure pottery. We spent a whole day looking at the many vases displayed in old wooden cabinets and reading the descriptions, written by scientists. <\/p>\n<p>Last time I went there, things had changed. There were only two or three examples of Greek pottery on display, accompanied by some shallow educational information text about how &#8220;the old Greeks used to live&#8221;. Everything was aimed at quick consumption and easy illusion of understanding. The place was filled with loud children running around. I think it is great when children are taken to a museum, however their parents should show them that it is not a playground. It seems that they rather go to the coffee places, shops and restaurants in the museum instead.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sad trend I notice: Many museums have become cr\u00c3\u00a8ches, playgrounds, malls and amusement parks filled with flashy shows and attractions. <\/p>\n<p>In the Natural History Museum, the biggest attraction is a life size model of Tyrannosaurus &#8211; the T-Rex &#8211; in a zoo like environment. It moves, makes scary sounds and does not necessarily have much to do with the dinosaur. It looks impressive though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorised","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielkaspar.de\/iamacamera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}