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| - I wish I could give this museum a better rating...but the truth is, I have yet to truly enjoy a day here.
Believe it or not, I like history museums. I like taking the time to read everything in them. And ultimately I'm dying to read, really READ, everything about the old "Point" (before it was the Point) and this historic part of Pittsburgh - about the geography of the land originally, about the Native American tribes that lived here, about the wars and politics that occurred here, and about how a city I love that's now all too often blown off as dirty was once pretty well known, respected and revered.
So wait - basically, this is a beautiful, interesting museum dedicated to a not-often spoken part of local history? I should be all over this thing!
BUT...well, the thing is, this museum forgets that some people need silence to read lots and lots of text. If we want to remember/understand what we're reading, anyway. I mean, history's complicated. Enjoyable but complicated. At many museums noise isn't as much of a problem because you're doing as much looking as learning - but history museums are special in my experience, because there's always more to read then to see. There's nothing wrong with that, and I'm cool with doing lots of reading.
Unfortunately my reading at the Fort Pitt museum is often interrupted by children. Little children don't care about reading lots of text. They also don't care if adults want to read lots of text. Meaning that all of the hands-on wooden musket replicas or cool canons that are there for people of all ages to enjoy? Yeah. If they're not nailed down - and boy, those wooden musket replicas are definitely not nailed down - they're going to be picked up by a child ready to run around the museum chanting off a Native American war cry. Kids have no problem stepping on toes and running in front of those of us trying to read and appreciate the history here. Trust me. If parts of the museum could be divided off just for these energetic kids, it wouldn't be so bad, but by the museum's very own design, everyone is always in one room on one of two floors.
Hopefully one day I can actually enjoy the history here without being tread on. Until then...what can I say, other than that the subject is awesome but the building layout is not conducive to an informative day in a history museum, for me at least.
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