Wednesday, December 26, 2007

yet a second step is taken toward my enterprise



 
The third or fourth greatest love of my life is history, so when I stumbled across the Bakken Museum website, http://www.thebakken.org/, my heart chugged along a little faster.

The Bakken Library and Museum, out in Missouri, has a Frankenstein exhibit that includes the following:
  • Information about the author (Mary Shelley, who was only eighteen when she wrote the novel)
  • Images illustrating what Frankenstein's lab might really have looked like in Shelley's mind (these great interactive images, lit like something Vermeer might have painted, seem more historically accurate to my underinformed mind than the images I've absorbed from the movies)
  • Other fun-to-play-with features that you'll have to visit the Web site to see.


Written by Melissa S (Boho Geek Girl)
Photo courtesy of furiousgeorge81