Have you ever been to a public museum?
Oh yes I have, I visited public museums in London for example. Have you?
Yes, I have been to many. The Milwaukee Public Museum, with natural and human history exhibits, is probably my fave.
That sounds good, I like interactive museums where you can not only see things but interact with them (like science museums).
was officially chartered in 1882, its existence can be traced back to 1851, to the founding of the German-English Academy in Milwaukee. The Academy's principal, Peter Engelmann, encouraged student field trips, many of which collected various specimens—organic, geological, and archaeological in nature—which were kept at the Academy. Later, alumni and others donated various specimens of historical and ethnological interest to the collection.
By 1857, interest in the Academy's collection had grown to such an extent that Engelmann organized a
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