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When I travel to different locations, I often seek out events and spots that interest me. What places have you found in your travels or in locations near you that you like or are interested in seeing?
Some examples:
Bay Area, CA:
* Exploratorium: Many exhibits designed to demonstrate discoveries in science, or properties of systems and the world around us.
* NIKE MIssile Base: SF-88: Docent lead tours with history of how the base was run. Good stories from people that actually worked at Nike Missile bases.
Los Angeles area, CA:
* Discovery Science Center
Las Vegas, NV:
* Atomic Testing Museum: History of nuclear weapons and research.
Fort George G. Meade, MD
* National Cryptologic Museum: Not just crypto, but surveillance, and parallel computing. Best way to go here is see if any Docent are giving tours and walk with them.
Paderborn, Germany:
* Heinz Nixdorf Forum: technical museum with history of mechanical computation, electronic computation, a working "mechanical" PBX (electronic with lots of moving parts and telephones), computers calculators, a small crypto exhibit, "hacking" exhibit featuring commentary on people like Wosniac and the CCC, and more. Very little English. (Their website has more English support than their museum,and the people that run it look at you like you are going to steal or break stuff, but it was one of the better technical museums I've been to in Germany.)
Oranienburg Germany (Northeast, or Southeast of Sachsenhausen Germany):
* Sachsenhausen: Tours of prisons, concentration camps, and places where people face significant resource restrictions can reveal examples of humans providing intelligent, and clever inventions that re-purpose existing tools and technology for other uses. (Sounds like hacking, doesn't it? :: "necessity is the mother of invention.") This takes many forms from weapons to tattoo guns, to fermentation to yield alcohol. Yes, there is more to learn than this narrow focus at these sites, but I am trying to avoid the "no politics" rule we have. (Google Maps) I've visited other prisons, and prison museums to find that inmates/prisoners can be clever and ingenious when it comes to re-purposing what they have into what they need or want.
Denmark:
* Experimentarium: Many exhibits designed to demonstrate discoveries in science, or properties of systems and the world around us. Most exhibits support Danish, German, English and French.
What places can you suggest or recommend to other people as good for geeks/nerds/hackers to visit?
Also, a recent strip from AbstruseGoose mentions both http://www.penn.museum/ and http://www.freekesef.com/ which brought me to visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gam...easure_hunt%29 where I see mention of this game being played in many other places, including Seattle.
Anyone care to comment about this game if you have played it in Seattle? If not, elsewhere?
Some examples:
Bay Area, CA:
* Exploratorium: Many exhibits designed to demonstrate discoveries in science, or properties of systems and the world around us.
* NIKE MIssile Base: SF-88: Docent lead tours with history of how the base was run. Good stories from people that actually worked at Nike Missile bases.
Los Angeles area, CA:
* Discovery Science Center
Las Vegas, NV:
* Atomic Testing Museum: History of nuclear weapons and research.
Fort George G. Meade, MD
* National Cryptologic Museum: Not just crypto, but surveillance, and parallel computing. Best way to go here is see if any Docent are giving tours and walk with them.
Paderborn, Germany:
* Heinz Nixdorf Forum: technical museum with history of mechanical computation, electronic computation, a working "mechanical" PBX (electronic with lots of moving parts and telephones), computers calculators, a small crypto exhibit, "hacking" exhibit featuring commentary on people like Wosniac and the CCC, and more. Very little English. (Their website has more English support than their museum,and the people that run it look at you like you are going to steal or break stuff, but it was one of the better technical museums I've been to in Germany.)
Oranienburg Germany (Northeast, or Southeast of Sachsenhausen Germany):
* Sachsenhausen: Tours of prisons, concentration camps, and places where people face significant resource restrictions can reveal examples of humans providing intelligent, and clever inventions that re-purpose existing tools and technology for other uses. (Sounds like hacking, doesn't it? :: "necessity is the mother of invention.") This takes many forms from weapons to tattoo guns, to fermentation to yield alcohol. Yes, there is more to learn than this narrow focus at these sites, but I am trying to avoid the "no politics" rule we have. (Google Maps) I've visited other prisons, and prison museums to find that inmates/prisoners can be clever and ingenious when it comes to re-purposing what they have into what they need or want.
Denmark:
* Experimentarium: Many exhibits designed to demonstrate discoveries in science, or properties of systems and the world around us. Most exhibits support Danish, German, English and French.
What places can you suggest or recommend to other people as good for geeks/nerds/hackers to visit?
Also, a recent strip from AbstruseGoose mentions both http://www.penn.museum/ and http://www.freekesef.com/ which brought me to visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gam...easure_hunt%29 where I see mention of this game being played in many other places, including Seattle.
Anyone care to comment about this game if you have played it in Seattle? If not, elsewhere?
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