Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for January 27, 2021

All of the best parts of gift shops around the world in one convenient museum!

And while there, remember to check out the exhibit.

AKA As Time Goes, Buy.

It’s true that whenever we take ’em to a learning type place, the younger set always loves the “gift shop display” the best. Well, except for, pretty often, one or another of them will really get into some kind of interactive thing: Play with the sea urchins, maybe, or build-your-own giant bubble (you can actually stand on a little island in the bubble fluid and raise shapes up with a pulley system.)

Ironically, they have no gift shop.

Cutting to the chase. In the rear is the pharmacy.

The exit is through the exhibits.

It dsplays all sorts of gifts that they couldn’t sell in the gift shops. Now people are paying just to look at them.

So, not to be confused with the Museum Gift Shop … ?

…must be run by a genius,,,

On our one obligatory trip to Disney World in Orlando, I quickly realized that every ride exited through a gift shop. A marketing machine! “Maybe the next one, kids.”

The Science Museum in Cleveland is hands on! Kids love it! Gift shops in museums are not cheap but fun to visit!

Hope kids brought some cash!

Is this a museum displaying gift shops?

I have known adults who were more interested in the gift shops than the museums or zoos.

And please remember to “exit through the gift shop”. Which btw, is also the name of a great documentary.