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Posted on 08/07/2018 9:20:23 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
In this thoughtful (and gore-free) one-of-a-kind exhibit, you’ll discover that cannibals aren’t who you think they are. They’re warriors from many cultures, European kings and queens, American and European sailors, American colonists, accident survivors, the sick, and more.
The San Diego Union-Tribune gave Cannibals high praise:
“Get past the ick factor. Stifle the barbecue jokes. Cannibals: Myth & Reality is a poignant and beautiful experience, the type that you hope to get at a museum. It deftly guides you from one emotional place to another, revealing connections across time and cultures, until you reach a point of deeper understanding. Through history, art, films, interactive displays and games, visitors confront what seems, at first, to be an unthinkable choice. By the end, you might realize that it’s far more nuanced and complicated.”
INSIDE THE EXHIBIT “One of the things we really wanted to do with this exhibit is to ask visitors to step into the shoes of people who were faced with real, difficult decisions and to make people think. Given the same circumstances, would they make the same choices? Can I empathize with that person? Do I understand what happened?”
—Dr. Emily Anderson, exhibit curator, in an interview with KPBS TV.
Hear the emotional first-hand account of the Uruguayan rugby players who, trapped high in the Andes Mountains, resorted to cannibalism to survive. Learn why European explorers falsely used the label of “cannibal” to enslave and control people around the world. Step into the apothecary shop to find out how the human body has been used as medicine. Now online! Play the “Donner Trail” web game based on the Donner Party. Will you live or die? While stranded at sea, decide who among you will be eaten so that the others may live. Maybe you’ll be the one who draws the short straw! Decide if you already do things that make you a cannibal, too. Special charges apply for this unique exhibit. Recommended for ages 10 and up.
Buy Cannibals Tickets Student groups will find the group self-guide useful in preparing for, experiencing, and learning from the exhibit.
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Please note Cannibals: Myth & Reality is not included in Residents Free Days
Absolutely unbelievable, move over pedophiles the cannibals are coming.
Go to Museum site to see ghoulish exhibits
Cannibals won’t eat clowns....................
OK, if, and it's a big 'if' I know, but if you are a follower of Q, this sort of thing is exactly what was being described as a gruesome practice by the cabal involving young children.
Why not, just because they taste funny?
And to think that San Diego used to be a solid bedrock socially conservative military city that now promotes the message to children that cannibalism isn’t so bad, every culture has done it, and human meat tastes good, just like pork!
You have that on good authority?
Yes, because they taste funny...............
Yep!.............
friggin liberals- gleefully and enthusiastically embracing every kind of abomination there is!
Was thinking the same thing.
This exhibit serves to normalize one of the last huge Taboos of a civilized society.
Only savages ate human flesh.
Now it’s just a choice without consequence..
Like killing babies...
They drive me crazy.
Tell me what you’ve got in mind ...............
After Mapplethorpe nothing should shock us when it emerges from the leftist hearts and minds of the lunatic fringe that run many museums. Even the Smithsonian museum leadership leans so far left that the Leaning Tower of Pisa stabilization engineering team has been discretely consulted. (/s)
http://madridengineering.com/case-study-the-leaning-tower-of-pisa/
If cannibalism is OK now, then why do we kill animals who attack and sometimes eat people? Bizarre question, but then Leftists are nothing if not bizarre.
Trapped in the Andes or Donner Pass is one thing. Does the museum spend a great deal of time/space on Aztec cannibalism—the Aztecs being a proud symbol of Mexico?
“A poignant and beautiful experience”
Stay away from the snack bar.
It looks like the museum is purposely confusing those who regularly killed and ate people for food with those who ate the dead out of necessity or who ate parts of the incidental dead for “medicinal” reasons, conflating Aztec human sacrifice and human meat markets with eating ground mummy bones.
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