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To Eugene's list of science centers and museums near stadiums, add 
the American Swedish Historical Museum, in FDR Park (part of 
Fairmount Park), Philadelphia--a short walk from the stadiums and 
subway terminus.

On game days, parking and programs are impossible at the museum. On 
other days, parking is easy and free (I think it is the best place to 
park for a day of museum visits in Philadelphia).
Karen
Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS
Guest Curator, Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia,  February 15-July 1, 2007
Now showing at New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ , through Jan. 4, 2009
http://www.americanswedish.org/, http://www.americanswedish.org/linnaeus.htm
http://www.nj.gov/state/museum/see_come-into-new-world.htm
Exhibition guide available from 
http://www.dianepublishing.net/category_s/490.htm (p.4)
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>Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 00:41:41 -0500
>From: Eugene Dillenburg <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Science centers and stadiums...or is it stadia?
>The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago is across the street from
>Soldier Field, home of the Bears.  Game days are brutal.
>
>I understand the National Underground Railroad Museum and Freedom Center is
>close to Cincinnati's baseball stadium, giving them headaches 81 days a year.
>
>The Science Museum of Minnesota is across the street from the Excel Center,
>home of the Minnesota Wild (hockey).  But their games are mostly at night,
>so there doesn't seem to be that much conflict.
>
>And Garner's Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style argues that
>"stadium" has been thoroughly Anglicized, and thus takes "stadiums" as its
>plural.
>
>-- Eugene Dillenburg
>Exhibit Developer
>Science Museum of Minnesota

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