Trash Talk
Posted on August 16, 2008
Filed Under Museums & tours |
Posted by Sierra
It’s heavy, it’s packed together, it’s made of garbage! What is it? A cube of garbage? Close, but not quite. Guess again. Give up? It’s the one, the only … Traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaashosaurus! And where does this “dirty” dino live? The Children’s Garbage Museum, of course. Located in Stratford, Connecticut, how you view this kooky place depends on how you see garbage. If you see it as disgusting, unimportant, and BOR-ING, skip this place and go to the Knucklehead Hall of Fame instead. If, however, you believe in recycling and know how important it is, you might want to consider stopping here.
The Garbage Museum seems to be especially popular with school groups. And no wonder! It’s packed with activities, including a Trashosaurus Scavenger Hunt, a recycling quiz, and windows on the second floor which show you the next door recycling center. A good thing about the size of the museum is that it can be done in less than 45 minutes.
The first thing to greet you when when you enter is Monsieur Trashosaurus. Trashosaurus is big and covered with old toys, signs, traffic cones, fan blades, sunglasses—you get the point. From this point you can see most of the rest of the museum, which includes the tall, colander-like cones of cans, the “Cave of Worms,” the pyramid of juice boxes, and the “ping-pong ball/recycle center” display. You look through the museum, then head upstairs to the Recycling Center Viewing Windows. You can see the aluminum, plastic, cardboard, and glass be separated, packed, and bundled into cubes. You observe all the conveyor belts that lead from machine to machine.
This basically concludes the museum experience (told you it was small!). You may hate the museum, or you may love it, but chances are, you won’t find it boring.
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Hi to All - we are enjoying the commentary from all of you and Stan, the photographs are really great. Jasper and Niagara Falls are amazing. What camera did you say you are using? s.
Hi Sue - Both the Nikon (full size) and the PowerShot SD890 IS (pocket size, really handy). If you look at them bigger on Flickr check on the right and it will tell which camera was used. And if you click further you’ll get all the details (shutter speed and son on).
My hometown’s claim to fame. You should’ve let me know you were in town, we could’ve shared a beer or two.
Safe travels.
Sorry we didn’t know, Loren.
We were zipping at the time. Painful not think about turning north toward Captain Lawrence, but we wanted to get lunch and across into NJ before the traffic backed up.