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Toy train museums are stores and display centers of toy railroad equipment, locomotives and cars. For instance, the Toy Train Depot, in Alamogordo, New Mexico, is a railroad museum that exclusively features a collection of scale models of assorted train locomotives, passenger and freight trains, train engines and the like. Having fun at a toy train museum involves enjoying a ride on a toy-track trail for a fee. The Toy Train Depot for instance runs a sixteen-inch-gauge toy track rail line on which visitors can have a leisurely ride round and round.
For collectors, groups of 20 or more are given guided tours around the museums. But more common are the educational guided tours for school children in groups, irrespective of age or grade level. In here, you can explore the interesting history of American toy train making.
 Toy Train Museum Besides these, leading toy train museums display an assortment of scale model trains and toy rail-line equipment for the visitors to watch. It helps understand how the toy trains have evolved over the years and how they work. More importantly, toy train museums have a collection of historical rail artifacts and great ephemera that mark a major achievement since the steam engines hit the American expanse. Most American toy train museums have a collection of pushbutton controls that operate miniature railroad equipment, giving a
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Museum fun continues to appeal to thousands of people today, becoming a major tourism attraction all over the world. Consequently, fun museums have sprouted up in the last three decades to feature just about anything conceived of man or even natural phenomena that have a mystic value. Motorcycles too, in this very decade have celebrated the inauguration of their museum. The Harley Davidson Museum is the name of an American motorcycle museum located at the junction of Canal Street and Sixth Street, downtown Milwaukee, in Wisconsin.
The Harley Davidson Museum measures a whooping 130,000-square-foot space of a three-storey building complex on a 20-acre piece of land. In here, over 450 specimens of the Harley-Davidson motorcycles have been amassed and displayed artistically. These are then complemented by thousands and thousands of keepsake artifacts from the Harley-Davidson Motor Company, collected during the 106-year reign as a global motorcycle legend. Museum fun is so addictive that if you are into museums, you can trot the globe to every museum available and displaying whatever form of treasures. The Harley Davidson Museum today attracts over 300,000 guests annually, some being lovers of the motorcycles while other are just in love with fun museums.
 Harley Davidson Museum The museum was designed over an eight year duration by the Pentagram architects firm associates, James Biber and Michael Zweck-Bonner. It took two years to build the museum, after Harley Davidson signed out $75 million on 1st June 2006 for the complex engineers to resume construction. Instead of using a golden shovel as is the tradition in inaugural ceremonies, Scott Parker, the famous Harley Davidson dirt-track motorcycle racer, flagged off the construction with a burnout of the Harley-Davidson XL883R Sportster. Two years later,
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Many of the world’s leading doll museums are exclusively dedicated to preserving and exhibiting the doll phenomenon. They uphold the art form that most people, young and old alike, enjoy looking at and sometimes touching affectionately. If you want to sample the fun at a doll museum, there are so many online sites dedicated to information about doll museums. The following are exemplifications of some leading doll museums in the world and a brief description of what the y have to offer.
In India, there are so many museums where you can watch dolls and share nice moments with them. Indian dolls are displayed in workshops and mostly exchanged for gifts, which are mostly received from abroad. In India, a visit to a doll museum is an experience that many people really treasure. The dolls are handcrafted after a careful research has been done on all physical attributes. This means that there is a wide range of choice for the dolls and they serve a wide range of preferences. It is in these workshops that displays really come with variety, tailor-made towards making maximal sentimental appeal. You can therefore rest assured that you will enjoy the experience.
 Doll Museum Elsewhere, Shankar’s International Dolls Museum is a place where variety is a virtue. The Museum was set up by a political cartoonist named K. Shankar Pillai. It is a museum that
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The Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium has made exploring science a fun activity, by delicately and creatively embossing museum fun with scientific projects and demonstrations. Older children in their early or late teens desperately need a reawakening today to embrace science as the driving force that will firmly root America in the information age and beyond. The efforts directed towards this noble mandate have received a boost through the Miami Museum of Science.
The Miami Science Museum is sometimes called the Miami Science Museum and Space Transit Planetarium, since the museum incorporates a state-of-the-art Space-Transit Planetarium besides a Weintraub Observatory. The majestic museum that stands so impressive today has gradually grown in stature primarily due to popularity. Actually, the Museum started out as ‘The Junior Museum of Miami’, which was a private non-profit making organization. Then it used to be inside a house at the junction of Biscayne Boulevard and 26th Street Miami.
 Miami Museum of Science Its popularity grew phenomenally and in 1952 the museum was relocated to Miami Women’s Club building located at Bayshore Drive. It was at this new location that the museum was renamed to the ‘Museum of Science and Natural History’. In 1953, a Guild of the Miami Museum of Science began to complement efforts of the volunteer assistance to the employed staff conducting
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Canned meat, Spam, is a part of the American heritage. It was the main food during the Second World War and during the tough years of the Depression. The Spam Museum is actually an innovatively renovated K-Mart building. The original K-Mart structure has however been completely run over by Spam renovations. What remains of the K-Mart building is but a shell whose windows, walls, doors, ceilings and the exterior designs have been totally overhauled to form the modern day Spam Museum.
How the museum came to be is a story as amusing as the museum itself. Innovation is the best way to describe this museum. K-Mart had vacated the building located at Main Street, Austin, a decade or so ago. After remaining idle for all those years the location lost value since with the exit of K-Mart slow business resulted. In fact, even a grocery store once thriving across the street also moved shop and left an empty huge box lying idle.
 Spam Museum Mr. Hormel came in with an idea of how the area could be turned around positively. At that time, Hormel’s offices were just half a mile away from the abandoned K-Mart. For one, it was a prime location in Austin and had space for expansion. The price was cheap and the space available. This conveniently located site became the Spam Museum and it opened in September 2001. Besides innovativeness, cost efficiency was a determining factor in choosing to renovate the K-Mart building rather than build it from the ground. Renovating the big box was by
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Dinosaurs are essentially huge creatures that roamed the earth millions of years ago, according to the studies and research carried out by anthropologists and other scientists. The fact is, the mystery surrounding the dinosaur history is one of complete ignorance and misinformation. The current mass media forms have further perpetuated this misinformation with crafty productions that depict dinosaurs in a totally imperfect representation.
So how do you quench your curiosity about dinosaurs? The answer is dinosaur museums. You can have fun at dinosaur museums while you sample the pieces of credible history, collected from anthropological excursions and then reconstructed artistically to recreate the huge creatures. In dinosaur museums, you hitch a time machine to thousands of years before you were born, objectively piecing together the evidence that tells the dinosaur story without misinformation.
 Dinosaur Museums For instance, you can visit the British award-winning Dinosaur Museum at Dorset, Dorchester, just 7 miles away from the world famous Jurassic Coast. For twenty-five years, the Dinosaur Museum has presented the Dinosaur story with a novel and innovative approach such that the museum has become a leading British attraction site for people interested in dinosaurs. When it comes to museum fun, there is nothing that beats standing alongside life-sized dinosaur reconstructions, gazing at dinosaur fossils and skeletons. These recreations and tangible evidence have been incorporated in multimedia displays of the
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Toys museums are simply fun museums that stock an assortment of toys on a particular theme. Toys have become more and more innovative over the years and they have become a representation or even a role model for children in particular cultures. The Barbie Doll in America is perhaps the greatest doll toy of all time across the world, and her popularity is mainly from her great representation of the American culture. However, this same toy was banned in Iran and then Middle Eastern countries in general, simply because she was thought to represent a culture in opposition with that of predominantly Muslim countries. In effect, a new doll that resembles Barbie was launched in November 2003 in Syria. This doll, the Fulla doll (called the Muslim Barbie by some quarters), was said to represent the Muslim culture since she wore conservatively and even had a hijab.
 Toy Museums With such key cultural attachments as exemplified above, toys have increasingly become objects of cultural representation. Toy museums therefore are museums that showcase the toys that have been created to denote a particular culture, period of history or cultural conception. Children and adults alike can have fun at toy museums sampling some of the greatest permanent collections of
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