During our several months of touring in Idaho, we visited quite a few museums. These are some of our favorites.
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| Potatoes are grown all across southeastern Idaho. One third of the nation's potatoes are grown in the county where Blackfoot is located. |
Who would have thought that you could make a museum just for "Clean", but Don Aslett opened this 74,000 square foot collection dedicated to that purpose. This is a very interesting interactive museum with everything that affects life, like clean air, clean water, clean language, clean health, clean bed, floors, politics, jokes, teeth, art… and how about clean arteries? There are many collections including, vacuums, toilets, tubs, washers, brooms and trash cans. Don Aslett took us on a personal tour of the museum and pointed out some of the more interesting exhibits.
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| A special National Geographic exhibit "Real Pirates" is here through November. |
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| We visited here on the 4th of July. |
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| P-51 Mustang Bob Hoover's "Ole Yeller" |
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| P-51 "Section Eight" |
This museum is dedicated to the Teton dam which broke June 5, 1976, just 6 months after it was completed. Some of us remember this was a world class engineering disaster. The collapse of the dam resulted in the deaths of 11 people and injured over 1,000. Over 13,000 head of cattle died and several towns were covered with water. This dam cost $100 million to build and the collapse caused up to $2 Billion in damage. We happened to visit on June 5, the 39th anniversary of the flood.
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| We visited the remains of the Teton Dam site, several miles northeast of Rexburg. The crack prone porous rock supporting the dam led to its demise. |
1 comment:
Well, I guess that there IS a museum for just about everything. A Clean Museum, huh?? It sounds like you saw some interesting places.
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