P.S. I have visited the Adler Planetarium twice (only once by choice), and in spite of my interest in astronomy, it is indeed quite boring. It’s more like a stale old museum, with very little that caught my interest.
Really, I’m not saying there are not gems among the stores buried/located in Pigeon Forge but 98% is not worth it.
LA to San Diego-—along the coast-—and there is nothing but shrubbery, trash, and closed alternative railroad lines. Yuck!
That’s because you were never locked in the building at night and found yourself followed by the footsteps of the ghost of William Herschel. Had to call the VP to come and get me out.
I ground a telescope mirror at Adler in 1960 and spent a vast amount of time there as I was engaged to the optics instructor. After I graduated college, I worked there for six months before the city caught me as a Republican election judge in a Democratic patronage job.
I gave hallway lectures on the Rand McNally globe and polished gold and silver astrolobes, as well as filing the oldest astronomical texts. It was NOT boring from my side of it. (Oldest alarm clock involved a sundial and a small cannon)
I DID check out on the Zeiss, but this was 1967 when I was told that I couldn’t do Zeiss lectures because I was a woman and the audience wouldn’t accept a female authority figure voice in the darkness. Sigh. There was a reason so many of us got hooked into early feminism.
I LOVED Adler!
Astronomical Images - Prince of Denmark’s March - Jeremiah Clarke
https://youtu.be/CCTOCCJ2Ixg
Adler Planetarium?
I once worked on a database that was used to track all the items in their collection - got to learn all about classifications of astrolabes. Thought it was a pretty neat place.
For the ultimate letdown, take a day out of your way to go see Plymouth Rock ;-)
The most boring/overrated places I have ever been were Tianenmen Square, and the Forbidden city in Bejing.
We should have gone to the wall instead.
The white pagoda wasn’t much better.