Friday, July 16, 2010

Coolest contest EVER


Did you read the book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler as a kid?  It's about a girl who runs away from home with her brother and goes to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  It's a wonderful book, I read it about 30 times, and ever since then I have fantasized about living in a museum.



Well, now is my chance (and yours) because the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is having a contest to find some incredibly lucky someone to live in the museum for a month.  That's 24-7, eating, sleeping, bathing (I wonder about that last one) in the amazing Museum of Science and Industry for one whole month!!!


Did I mention that they have a giant incubator of hatching eggs and baby chicks?  Or the Apollo 8 spaceship?  No?  Well, they do.


Could only be awesomer if it was The Met, just like in the book.

images here, here, I can't remember where and here.

10 comments:

Unknown said...

Wow, that's so awesome! I love this musuem - I think it's my favorite in all of Chicago! But living there...well that would be so weird for me. But I can imagine how much potential fun one could have!

Meghan said...

Wait, WHAT??? Umm, I would totally consider doing this! Its my favorite museum here in the city!

abigail said...

I'm tempted to enter too. It would be amazing.

Ana Degenaar said...

I love museums and miss them SO SOOOOOOO MUCH!

Paige said...

that is still one of my favorite books ever!

Anonymous said...

Ohmygod, I'm totally going to enter!

Hello, I'm Tayler said...

I was exactly like you, read the book a BILLION times. SO AWESOME. I'm going to repost on my blog via you. Sooo cool!

Pesky Cat Designs said...

I never read that book as a child but now I am very interested! What a cool contest. I can imagine it would be amazing to have an entire museum all to yourself to live in!

Brandi said...

I just wish I had a reason to live in Chicago. And a Science and Industry museum sounds like so much fun too!!

Meredith said...

Oh my goodness, that looks like the greatest thing ever!! I LOVED that book, only I had forgotten about it and when I read this post, oh the memories that came flooding back!

I got to stay in the Museum of Science in Boston for a night as a kid? Does that count as something?