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Did anyone see the horse exhibit?


My wife and daughter were in NY this last
weekend and said it was great. They had
layers of a track in one part of the exhibit...
lots a good stuff. Think it opened mid May.

Sorry if this is a repeat.

If not, I would like to hear some reports
or just remind people it is there.

I haven't gone yet (will soon) but friends who have say it's a beautiful exhibition. The M. of Nat. History's Mythical Creatures was a lot of fun; I look forward to this one, too.

If I had a museum like that in the same city I would never leave.

My wife really liked the horse exhibit.

My daughter liked the Dinosaur stuff, go figure.

My favorite museum

Hey, pgardn; I finally saw the exhibit-

On the racing front- it has Citation's trophies from the TC races and the TC trophy on display, which was pretty cool. A six-minute film about horses and humans includes clips from the 2005 Derby and 2007 Belmont. There's also some stuff about the fragility of the racing Thoroughbred- photos of Barbaro's shattered leg and him being brought out of a recovery pool- and while the synthetic track is interesting to see (it shows the layers), it makes it sound like a panacea for racing. But they also had prints of the Thoroughbred's foundation stallions and some stuff on Eclipse, as well as a cast of a skeleton of a famous Standardbred.

I thought it was a really good exhibit- my friend and I spent two hours there and didn't realize it. It starts with the evolutionary history of the horse, moves through domestication and then horse and man through history. There's a great section on equine physiology and some cool interactive stuff- touch screens and things. Lots of cultural stuff- samurai saddles, horse armor, and a hilariously un-PC rodeo poster from the 1800s, advertising lady rodeo riders.

Much to my surprise, the last short film in the exhibit, about three individuals and their relationship to horses featured one of my former riding teachers (from when the stable in Manhattan was still open, now doing therapeutic riding in Brooklyn). It made me remember my husband's grumbly comment to me after he met that teacher: "You didn't mention he was such a hunk." Hee hee.

The exhibit runs until January; I highly recommend. It really makes you realize how much of human history has been shaped by our relationship with the horse. The one bummer is that the museum doesn't put out a book about the exhibit. I thought museums used to do that, but I guess not anymore.

I thought it was OK. Easy for me because I live a few blocks away but overall not that much.

lies...ALL LIES!! :D

Oh, sorry- here, this will make you feel better-

http://www.creationmuseum.org/

:D

lol

i didn't click on the link, but i've read articles about that place before. hilarious.

I'll have to track down a site I found once about a guy's visit to the museum. The photo journal with his comments is priceless.

We are a bit lacking in good museums so what might just be OK to some
is really good for us. If I lived anywhere close to that place I would never leave. Its got so much stuff. They have so much of it still on the shelves where they dont let you go. I would by a pass to get into that paddock.

The place would be a creationists nightmare.
The strict ones anyway.

Ahhh probably not.

Do not attempt to reason a man out of something
he did not reason reason himself into.
-Jonathan Swift