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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
The reason Utah has no decent museums (outside the U of U natural history museum, which is respectable) is simple--values. Go to Chicago and you see its public libraries, its aquarium, look like temples. Of course CHicago has a world class art museum. I once went with a Mormon relative to the Met. We visited the Mesopotamian stuff, and I told her that this came from the oldest known civilization in the West, when people first gathered in a city. I talked some about the cradle of civlization, the Tigres and the Euphrates, etc. She started trying to correlate it to stuff she'd read in the Book of Abraham. Yuck!
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She was just trying to redeem you, SU. It was an act of love.
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