Stopped at the NRA museum at Bass Pro...

by Paul , Wednesday, February 06, 2019, 06:05 (2054 days ago) @ Bri A

That's a nifty place to visit. You are probably over estimating the amount of knowledge and attention to the placards the average visitor the the museum has and pays. I've been in there a couple of times over the years, but with grand kids in tow there's simply not much time to do more than see what catches THEIR eyes and try to make it a fun trip for THEM. The fun would run out quickly for them (and my wife) if grandpa would take his time and ogle every piece there and pay attention to more than "oh! PRETTY!". But it IS annoying that a museum would have a mislabled display. One assumes (yeah, I know) that they'd do their research and put up accurate information, but obviously they don't always do that. Years ago we went through Castillo San Felipe in Cartagena, Colombia. They had an old blunderbuss set up as a cap lock that was labled with a year WAY before Forsythe invented his "scent bottle" not to mention the later advent of the common percussion caps the old blunderbuss was set up for. No, I didn't bother to call their attention to it. Almost nothing was labeled in there and what was was poorly done, didn't seem like they were interested in doing more than having a bunch of old junk for the cruise line passengers to gawk at.