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Balboa Park Museums (PICS INTENSIVE!)

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And be warned - there are mummies in this! So if you're squeamish... get your pukey-bag ready. Sorry about my reflection... I tried not to get in the pictures, but sometimes the angle of the lights and the exhibit just didn't mesh :crap:

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allllmost cubism :love:

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omg medieval dragon!!
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oblig monet
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that was the upstairs of the museum... medieval stuff mostly from 1500-1800. I think it's called the museum of fine art or something like that. Here's the downstairs, art of North America I think is what the exhibit was called, followed by a good chunk of Asian art.
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and here's the Asian side -
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the exhibit down the hallway that I wasn't allowed to take pics of :( It was more pretty medieval paintings
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So.. seeing as how it's right next to the tropicals greenhouse/structure, I wandered over to get some sun before heading back in for more..
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their CPs don't look so hot
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but the mossy/undergrowth stuff is doing ok
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cute bonsai they've got going
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aand all sorts of pretty plants I don't have the room for
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they've got an aristolochia climbing all the way to the top :0o:
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a gigantic fern I want :love:
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and off to the Museum of Man!
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(in front of some international museum)

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and into the museum we go..
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They had a peruvian pottery thing going on- a figurine thing next door too but I didn't go to that because I was museum'd out after this one :ohno:
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..and back to the greater collection
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and from this point on RANDOM GRUESOME BODIES AND STUFF SO AVERT YOUR EYES IF YOU HAVE A SENSITIVE STOMACH!! MUMMIES, DEFORMITIES and other gross oddities interspersed..
 
Great photos! Thanks for sharing. Do you remember the origin of the 10th up from the bottom (wow, nevermind you posted more-I was looking at your first post with the small human-like head with long beard and some sort of wings? What culture? The art work is amazing.
 
Very nice and interesting pics. Thanks for sharing :)
 
Here we go..
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they have a whole room with timeline-dots showing various human achievements along the centuries..
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random biology stuff.. kinda the birds and the bees so I didn't give away the ending :p
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so just some cellular level stuff..

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random cave cuz they felt like it
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from up above those stones are still freaking huge
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and the gruesome oddities.. this first one is some sort of rheumatoid arthritis I think :crap:
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I didn't take a pic of the really deformed skeleton.. you'll have to come down in person if ya want to see it :p
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it's interesting how some horrible diseases actually eat away at your bones too :0o:
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aand the whole chilled mummy room!
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:crap: glare
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maybe these are all good for Halloween ideas? tis the season..

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and on the way back out..
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up towards the park
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the front of the museum from higher up
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and some German oddities on the way out
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the wall :0o:
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and leaving the park on the big bridge
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that's downtown
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some cute car
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a squirrel and some crows chasing each other around
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what people's front yards look like around the area
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...and some of my plants before I gave up taking pictures for the day
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Phalaenopsis Speciosa C #1 just opened this bloom

the two Nepenthes ((veitchii x maxima) x veitchii) x campanulata now that they're unfurled some more (the third is pouting and hasn't made a pitcher in a while..maybe it's time for a repot)
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N.campanulata x (spectabilis x talangensis) basal pitcher darkened up to purple :love:
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N.veitchii K darkened up too
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N.petiolata still working on it
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and N.hamata x platychila opened up today
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Ok, that's all. And nope.. I don't remember the artists, but that's why I tried to get the tags in the pics but you aren't allowed to use flash so some of them just turned out to be white squares in the pictures :(
 
  • #10
Wow, that was really interesting! Especially all the deformed stuff :p
 
  • #11
Cool, saves me a trip from going to that museum ;)
 
  • #12
Ohhh, very nice Zu!!!
Looks like lots of fun ^-^
 
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Thanks guys, they museums are nice too - no little kids running around screaming like the zoo :lol:

And there's plenty of stuff I didn't take pics of too Larry... you should still go :)
 
  • #14
very nice, looks like a good day was had :)

I do miss good museums
 
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