amos hames
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I had a lovely day at the British museum yesterday. Its the worlds 4th biggest. Which is the best museum or attraction you have visited in the UK or USA.
A quick question to my friends over the pond and of course in the UK who have travelled to the US has anyone visited the museum for the old neon signs from Las Vegas . I vaguely recall a short documentary about it being shown in UK . I cannot imagine not only how colourful it must be but also the sadness at seeing these iconic works of art just sitting there , life over after being replaced by something even more glitzy .
I believe some have been restored and are therefore presumably lit but not really sure [ their site does not give much away from my initial look http://www.neonmuseum.org/about/the-collection) . I imagine most are just displayed as removed with no lighting but hopefully with some narrative explaining where they were located and when in Vegas.
I went there last year Terry. loved it. A lot bigger than I imagined it would be.I always enjoy a visit to the National Railway museum in York, last time I went they had several A4 Pacific's in the great hall and I had managed to get tickets for entrance before the place opened at 9am, so we arrived at 6am with only about 30 other visitors, as we left at 9am there were queues around the block, great fun