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At the Museum of Dubious Delights, those who are attracted to places like the London Dungeon and other horror collections can extend their fascinations with a range of more direct experiences.
A small sample of the many examples on offer include the following:
Swinging the executioner's axe that
beheaded many, including the wives of Henry 8th (you chop a pumpkin in half
Operating the switch of an electric chair (to turn on a jumping human figure neon sign
Firing the Browning Pistol that started the First World War by assasinating Archduke Ferdinand (you get to shoot at a row of coconuts with smiley faces painted on them)
Some of the exhibits are not as dramatic, such as walking around in a pair of Charlie Manson's shoes, or wearing Lee Harvey Oswald's hat as you aim his rifle, but all are infamous, memorable, guaranteed authentic, and come with souvenir pics and a headlined certificate to verify the experience, such as "I Groomed My Moustache With Hitler's Comb"
Little Boy - design specs
https://www.amazon....ittle/dp/B0006S2AJ0
[kdf, Dec 28 2020]
Little Boy - original parts
http://www-personal.../082002plugsPT.html
Safety & arming plugs from Little Boy, private sale [kdf, Dec 28 2020]
Thinking about the other side of the equation
https://spookers.co.nz/
There is supposed to be a sadness component. [wjt, Dec 29 2020]
Could You Resist The Hands of The Boston Strangler?
Could_20You_20Resis...ston_20Strangler_3f
[kdf, Dec 29 2020]
[link]
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I'm sure you already know of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealy
Plaza, as well as the Museum of the Assassination of Franz
Ferdinand, and many others like these ... but [+] for bringing
them all
under one tent and providing hands-on opportunities. |
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And for mentioning Adolf, of course. |
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If you get weary of looking around the exhibits you can sit down and
get some refreshments in the cafeteria. Here you will be given your
own sachet of Kool-Aid powder to mix into water to reenact the
Jonestown massacre. |
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I don't think you'll want for customers, but may have
problems getting artefacts to display. Most of the pieces you'd
want are in private hands or museum collections. |
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Can you settle for good replicas are will you insist on the
original articles? |
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They'll have to be the original items. |
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// Most of the pieces you'd want are in private hands or museum collections. // |
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At the moment. That can be changed. We might be persuaded to only use reasonable force. |
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We wish to book preview tickets for the museum's opening. [+] |
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<Lovingly fondles Nordern Mk. XV bombsight in Enola Gay/> |
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I personally know someone who built a Little Boy replica in his
garage. As the original is now fallout - and the replica is in a
museum - would you settle for the construction details? I think
the only authentic, original parts left are the arming and
safety plugs, auctioned off recently for
a little over $100,000. Xenzag's hands-on exhibit could let
people insert and remove them on John's model. |
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We fear you have failed to grasp the level of extreme authenticity we are contemplating for the "historical re-enactment" ... |
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That degree of accuracy is not profitable. Incinerating your
customers is not a sustainable business model. |
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The customers in this case will be the ones in the cockpit, manning the camera positions, and most of all peering through the bombsight to line up on the "T-shaped" Aioi bridge ... |
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Right. But a shooting range that could only set up its
targets once - and need decades to set them up
again - would not have much repeat business. So you'll just
have to settle for a simulation this time around. |
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Besides, there's a 7-11 convenience store now within the
original circle of total destruction. You don't want to mess
with Chiyoda Corporation. |
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The whole idea is built on the artefacts being
totally authentic of course. Cold drink from
Geoffrey's fridge anyone? |
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Sounds exciting. I'm trying to think of an exhibit that would be
something I would pay money to do...Oh yes, a peek into
Dahmer's freezer. |
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"The whole idea is built on the artefacts being totally
authentic
of course."
—xenzag, Dec 28 2020 |
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Understandable, though it limits you to what genuine
articles
still exist. Perhaps to widen the appeal you could have a
larger
museum of atrocities - no shortage of those! - with
special
(higher priced) tickets giving hands-on access to the limited
exhibits. |
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Oh - there's plenty of material that exists. How
about reading a few nursery rhymes via Dr
Crippen's spectacles? |
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Oh, that’s a good one I hadn’t heard of before.
Thanks! |
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I presume there will be an entire floor dedicated to
this year? |
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There would definitely be the opportunity to use
one of the golf clubs Trump spent most of his time
swinging around, as hundreds of thousands of
Americans died of Covid. Along with the club,
there would be his famous dictator's sharpie.
Visitors could sign and keep replica documents
filled with all sorts of lies and mad beliefs, such as
his endorsement of bleach drinking as a cure for
Covid. |
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Be fair, [xen]; if you imbibe a sufficient quantity of bleach, you won't suffer from coronavirus any more, so as far as it goes it's entirely correct. |
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Come on, give it a try. What could possibly go wrong ? |
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<Proffers brimming litre jug of Domestos/> |
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OK, so you won't suffer from anything else either (like, for instance, being alive) but the general principle holds good. |
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You really shouldn't be so judgemental without fully considering all the facts ... |
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// a larger museum of atrocities - no shortage of those! - with special (higher priced) tickets giving hands-on access to the limited exhibits. // |
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Could that "hands-on access" be extended to cover actual hands-on throttling (until life is declared extinct by an attendant physician) of TV talent contest competitors ? |
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Then, the remains could be suitably displayed - either by plastination, mummification, or being left out in gibbet-cages for the crows to peck at - as additional permanent exhibits. |
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"Could that 'hands-on access' be extended to cover actual
hands-on throttling ... ?"
—8th of 7, Dec 29 2020 |
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Well, if not for your insistence on authenticity - it could easily
be offered with animatronic victims. It should be at least as
convincing as what Trurl offered King Excelsius. |
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In the real world, I will not be surprised when this sort of thing
is offered as entertainment, therapy, or both. |
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I already posted an idea about that some time ago.
I think it was entitled "Could you survive the hands
of the Boston Strangler" or words to that effect. |
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//They'll have to be the original items.// |
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From a Museum curation and conservation point of view this is just not possible, and comes very close to being marked as bad science unless it is explicitly listed as using replica or reproduction items. |
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An object wears out and/or is damaged by handling; every time it is touched or moved there is micro damage to the surface and individual structure. Depending on the robustness of the object the museum may offer fairly free access to researchers or it may restrict access to almost no-one. |
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But handling access to the general public is never going to work. Yes, many museums have "handling collections" of genuine historical artefacts but these are usually selected from the collections as being non-unique "sacrificial" objects which may be abraded away by the hands of the public without any real loss to the integrity of the collections. |
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// non-unique "sacrificial" objects // |
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... such as TV talent show competitors. |
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