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the museum in the palace of culture and science is a very strange place. totally bonkers.

it's mostly an old school exhibits-at-arms-length in glass cages types of place, but there was one hands on area.

unfortunately it was a demonstration of radioactivity which i thought i'd like to avoid. (it's worth noting chenobyl isn't too far from poland)

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still, they had some bonkers exhibits like this type writer which used piano keys for the letters.

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and an exhibit which banned the use of thumbs

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and an ancient walkman

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and some old mobile phones which were surrounded by pennies, seemingly for no other reason than the glass case they were in wasn't done up properly so there was space to drop pennies in (so people did)

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and this thing is a pilot training simulator thing (with penny farthings for authenticity)

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here is an early apple mac

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and the fantastic trolley computer

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and i thought this sign was particularly telling. it was in the space section and announced that this rocket was a genuine exhibit (unlike all the others i assume).

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the music had a really weird atmosphere and was quite fantastic - you must go next time you are in warsaw (although i wouldn't make the trip just to go).

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