It was actually a fun museum. They start from the beginning of computer intelligence. I'm not sure what this is supposed to be, but I was amused by it:
Keith talked with ELIZA, played some games, and we both got to try out active shutter 3D on some racing game. Here is the only known photograph of me playing a computer/video game:
I stopped after crashing >5 times in 20 seconds.
Next, we went to the Märkisches Museum, which is actually only a couple blocks from our apartment. It is a museum devoted to the history of Berlin. I really want to like this museum, but the people were jerks. The people at the front didn't understand when we asked if we had to leave our belongings at the coat check and literally pushed me in the coat room's direction and the coat room attendant took my purse. When I asked her why, she said something about having priceless artifacts and liability and something I didn't understand about the police. Listen. I have been to many museums with far more "priceless" items (the British Museum and the Louvre, for example) and none of them took my purse. Furthermore, while walking through the museum it became apparent that I was the only woman whose purse had been confiscated. Apparently I looked like an extreme security risk.
There were legitimately some cool parts of the museum and perhaps I would go back (without a purse, obviously), but I'm still pretty irritated. Two bears live in the park next to the museum, so I will definitely visit them. The museum had Hitler's four foot tall globe, but most of Europe was missing, like it had been peeled off.
After that we went to the DDR Museum, which was a lot of fun. It's a very interactive museum with lots of information and artifacts from Eastern Germany, including a Trabi that you could pretend to drive and a typical DDR apartment. It was interesting to be there with a lot of people who had lived in the DDR and the whole feel of the museum was quite affectionate.
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