#i think it'd have an artisanal beer garden though. literally just for my parents they're beer nerds and it looks like they're having fun

[llatimeria]

my pipe dream that's never coming true is one day opening a combination art & natural history museum. instead of bare white rooms itd have displays like this

(from the isabella stewart gardner museum in boston)

but it's all stuff that looks straight out a victorian naturalist's wet dream; collections of taxidermied animals, bones, fossils, pinned bugs, lifelike replicas, other specimens, scientific illustrations, and other various educational bits and bobs;

a few displays of live aquaria, terraria, and aviaries thrown in for good measure, ideally mostly containing animals that are already well-established in captivity as pets, not anything too insanely exotic;

and it hosts arts & crafts classes for kids and adults where we make nature- or science-related art pieces like these:

you see my vision right. You See It