Strong Museum of Play: Video game Exhibit
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The food there is awesome too! I live about 15 minutes from there. The property that it is on is beautiful and also has a nature center as part of the complex.
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Also highly recommended for people in the Upstate NY region, take a drive to Ottawa and cross the border into Quebec for the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Best indoor museum I've ever seen.
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@scottalanmiller said:
We've done the Cooperstown Farmer's Museum twice in the past year. The GCVM is like 100 Farmer's Museums put together. It's the same style but the scale is completely different. The GCVM has actually assembled an entire village with streets, central square, etc. You need a map. You really get immersed, you never see the road (well you do, but it's distant.) You really go back in time, not just look at some old houses next to each other.
Same idea, but very different too.
Awesome, she loves the Farmer's Museum (we live 30 minutes from Cooperstown). I will have to get her to go with me to this one.
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We have also done Fort Niagara which is a fun indoor/outdoor museum and then the falls after. Lots of history in this area of NYS to explore.
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@Minion-Queen said:
We have also done Fort Niagara which is a fun indoor/outdoor museum and then the falls after. Lots of history in this area of NYS to explore.
Didn't do Fort Niagara, but did do the Falls and then went and hiked Letchworth. Ended up being a fantastic weekend. Will keep the Fort on my list of things to do if we get to that part of the state in the future.
This is great if you guys can think of anything else let me know, I love seeing the history and natural wonders of NYS.
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The locks in Lockport were fun to explore too. There are many parts of the Erie Canal that are cool to explore.
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@Minion-Queen said:
The locks in Lockport were fun to explore too. There are many parts of the Erie Canal that are cool to explore.
@dominica's parents live one block off of the canal. The kids do things on the canal regularly (like fireworks, food, ice cream, etc.) We'd like to do some serious canal history stuff.
For those interested, watch How the West Was Won which talks about the canal, Utica and some of its influence towards the beginning of the classic film.
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@coliver said:
Didn't do Fort Niagara, but did do the Falls and then went and hiked Letchworth. Ended up being a fantastic weekend. Will keep the Fort on my list of things to do if we get to that part of the state in the future.
@Minion-Queen, @art_of_shred, @Mike-Ralston, @Eric and I all grew up right at Letchworth. Letchworth was a part of daily life, you would sometimes drive through it as a short cut! My girls went there to see the canyon, falls and dam just a couple months ago.
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Albright-Knox in Buffalo is a world class modern art museum, very well known.
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If not looking to do stuff with kids, stay in either Ithaca or Watkins Glen for a weekend and do the Finger Lakes Wine Trail (the real ones are Seneca, Cayuga and Keuka Lakes.) Learn about the region, explore the foodie culture and learn all about wine making. (Beer and mean made along the trail too.)
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Didn't do Fort Niagara, but did do the Falls and then went and hiked Letchworth. Ended up being a fantastic weekend. Will keep the Fort on my list of things to do if we get to that part of the state in the future.
@Minion-Queen, @art_of_shred, @Mike-Ralston, @Eric and I all grew up right at Letchworth. Letchworth was a part of daily life, you would sometimes drive through it as a short cut! My girls went there to see the canyon, falls and dam just a couple months ago.
Yes we spend tons of time at Letchworth. The small museum there is nice as well. Not a lot there but still good. In the fall we love driving through there. Right now you cant get far though as they don't plow the snow out.
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@scottalanmiller said:
If not looking to do stuff with kids, stay in either Ithaca or Watkins Glen for a weekend and do the Finger Lakes Wine Trail (the real ones are Seneca, Cayuga and Keuka Lakes.) Learn about the region, explore the foodie culture and learn all about wine making. (Beer and mean made along the trail too.)
Yep, we've done the trail and more. I love "downtown" Ithaca. Very artsy. Watkins Glen is nice to walk around, although not during racing season. This is great info, will be planning more weekends.
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@dominica and I met while living in Ithaca.
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Speaking of Letchworth Park a pic of the falls today (crazy people hiking in this bitter cold!)
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Speaking of museums, our kids are slated to hit the Prado this spring with their mom.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Speaking of Letchworth Park a pic of the falls today (crazy people hiking in this bitter cold!)
Nuts. I just saw that Niagara is starting to freeze over too!
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Yup had friends that live up there say they can play hockey on part of the river (first time they have ever seen it frozen).
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What about the State Museum in Albany? Have not been there since I was about eight.
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I finally got to go to Strong recently and I was actually disappointed by the video game exhibit. I know they bought a gigantic private collection recently and even have one of 10 known copies of Tengen Tetris for Sega Genesis (one of the rarest games out there) and yet, the vast majority of the games they have are being stored in the basement of the building. They have very little on display. I have a better game display in my game room than they have.
Also, they have an impressive array of arcade machines but are using them as a cash grab and have not put them on Free Play. Considering they already charge extra for the carousel and the butterfly garden (worth it, by the way) charging the few quarters for each arcade/pinball machine just seems like a dick move.
Speaking of things to see in Western NY worth seeing, has anyone mentioned the Planetarium in Rochester? It's always fun to see the star show projected up on the dome. Alternatively, if you're near Buffalo, not Rochester, head up to Niagara Falls (the town, not the natural wonder) in NY and there is an Aquarium there that is somewhat small, but very enjoyable.
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@Awkward-Gamer Yup, I mentioned the planetarium earlier in the thread.
