Comments on: Yankee Magazine Editors: “Best Quirky Museum”

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:02:49 +0000

The blog generates automatic links based on key words in the current posting.

I can’t do anything about it. Just ignore it.

By: Cryptoraptor

Cryptoraptor — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:01:33 +0000

I don’t get the ‘Vote For Loren’ link directly under ‘Deep appreciation to you!’.

Is that a redundancy to the ‘Vote For Loren’ link under ‘Similar Phenomena’?

The way it now is, it looks like the link relates to something current.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Sun, 16 May 2010 18:06:26 +0000

Let’s see, I am not going to have the volunteer recount the items by country, as merely to count the items, in general, took over two hours. There is a long-term docent project to create a museum catalogue, but, of course, the ever-changing nature of the collection will have to be taken into consideration. Still, a good accounting of the national origins of each item will issue directly from that project.

Of course, there is a reason that the museum is called “international,” for the reach of the collection goes far beyond the USA and Canada. Looking around, I quickly see items from the Comores, Japan, Nepal, Tibet, Germany, France, Australia, South Africa, Indonesia, Scotland, Siberia, Russia, Britain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Congo Republic, South Korea and more. Other countries in Africa and South America are also represented, but we are going to carefully sort out the proper credit to which one of those soon.

By: JungleHusky

JungleHusky — Sun, 16 May 2010 16:11:08 +0000

Congratulations on this latest acknowledgement. As for my initial guess I very surprised when I found out this museum had over 1000 items, a testament to its wide outreach perhaps, but as my initial guess was 100 (factoring in giant fossils), the statistics at the end left me wondering, how many countries in total are represented (by items) in the museum?