National Museum of Crime & Punishment in DC

unbasslichkeit · #1 05-23-2008, 07:47 AM

This museum opens today in downtown DC, about a 10 minute walk from my office.
Is it just me, or is there something kinda sick and wrong about this place?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...sec-artsliving

ROON · #2 05-23-2008, 07:56 AM

I dunno, sounds pretty awesome to me. I'd love to go and take a look at it.
I love war museums and tours of closed prisons, sounds like the perfect museum for me.

Lalabadie · #3 05-23-2008, 08:02 AM

It may be sick and wrong, it still looks awesome. I'd like to visit it.

And how the heck do these words associate with a "Gaylord Hotels" ad?

ROON · #4 05-23-2008, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Lalabadie

It may be sick and wrong, it still looks awesome. I'd like to visit it.

And how the heck do these words associate with a "Gaylord Hotels" ad?

LOL! Last week I was watching a really bad midday movie, at the end of the credits it said; "This has been a Gaylord production"

I had a good laugh to myself about that.

unbasslichkeit · #5 05-23-2008, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Lalabadie

And how the heck do these words associate with a "Gaylord Hotels" ad?

Gaylord just built a huge hotel complex in Prince Georges County Maryland, right on the Potomac at the bottom of the Capital Beltway. That's likely it.

As for the Crime & Punishment Museum, I dunno..I've lived in DC 20 years now and have never visited the Holocaust Museum. I should at least see that first.

MJ5150 · #6 05-23-2008, 09:00 AM

Interesting. I guess the whole CSI/NCIS/Law & Order craze has spawned a museum.

-Mike

ROON · #7 05-23-2008, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by MJ5150

Interesting. I guess the whole CSI/NCIS/Law & Order craze has spawned a museum.

-Mike

I can't stand any of those shows, but I'm still very interested in crime and punishment.
The shows are just crappy overrated trash IMO.

casualmadness · #8 05-23-2008, 09:08 AM

It might be cool but I don't know. I was kinda burned on museums by the spy museum in DC. I shelled out a lot of $$$ for my g/f and I to check that place out and if full on sucked. I hadn't heard of this one though. Maybe I'll give it a go after the new wears off and there aren't eight billion people waiting to get in every moment of the day.

MJ5150 · #9 05-23-2008, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by ROON

I can't stand any of those shows, but I'm still very interested in crime and punishment.
The shows are just crappy overrated trash IMO.

I feel the same. I haven't ever watched one of those shows. But I did watch NYPD Blue religiously.

A few years ago, I helped build a house for a guy who worked for the FBI as a fornesic specialist. He would tell us stories everyday about his job, and cases he worked on. I could sit and listen to him for hours, but I had to work. I was sad when we wrapped up our portion of the project.

-Mike

**baba** · #10 05-23-2008, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by unbasslichkeit

Is it just me, or is there something kinda sick and wrong about this place?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...sec-artsliving

Yes. Paying for a museum in DC is sick and wrong. Bypass, go straight to Smithsonian museums.

casualmadness · #11 05-23-2008, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by baba

Yes. Paying for a museum in DC is sick and wrong. Bypass, go straight to Smithsonian museums.

Yep. Smithsonian is awesome...and FREE!!!

They are beter than anything else in thsi town.

ROON · #12 05-23-2008, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by MJ5150

I feel the same. I haven't ever watched one of those shows. But I did watch NYPD Blue religiously.

A few years ago, I helped build a house for a guy who worked for the FBI as a fornesic specialist. He would tell us stories everyday about his job, and cases he worked on. I could sit and listen to him for hours, but I had to work. I was sad when we wrapped up our portion of the project.

-Mike

I used to know a guy who was a spy in WW2 and went deep inside enemy territory. Some of the stories he told were amazing, I could sit and listen for days. Said a couple of his buddies got medals of honor but he never got one. He was a Brit but lives down here in Australia now. Very nice guy, sad that we're not in touch anymore.

MJ5150 · #13 05-23-2008, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by casualmadness

Yep. Smithsonian is awesome...and FREE!!!

We went to DC back in 2003. I was prepared to cough up all kinds of cash to get in those museums. I could not believe they were free. That has to be one of the best deals in the country. They could easily charge $10-15 a head for each museum.

Who pays to keep them open? Is there some kind of hotel or rental car tax?

-Mike

jkritchey · #14 05-23-2008, 04:09 PM

The Smithsonian has a financial endowment, and receives federal taxpayer funds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution

I'm always stunned to go to museums in other cities and have to pull a wallet. One gets used to free....