Yes indeedy wolf..... they torment little children by luring them off the street with their name, promising that they will allow, nay, ENCOURAGE you to touch things... and then everything is in locked glass display cases!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
No, seriously.... it's a fun place to take little kids. In spite of the name, they do have a handful of display cases with antiques. For example, aside from the one in this picture, there's a case with some old metal lunch boxes (tho they have a nice Star Trek one and a Battle of the Planets one, they don't have the Space Shuttle one I used to have), and one with some old plastic cereal box giveaways. These were loaned by a man who lives in the Philadelphia area and who actually designed a lot of them for different cereal companies. (I actually remember having the Flintstone's combination calendar/pencil holder.) Anyway, judging from my trips to the museum, the display cases are ignored by 99.44% of the kids.
Elspode, I used my Olympus D-460 digital camera to take the shot, first the left exposure, then the right, and I then used the Pokescope software to align, crop, and combine them. The D-460 has a cross-hair in the viewfinder that is used for spot metering and focus lock, and it comes in handy to help guide the vertical alignment of the shots. You may notice there is a slight difference in exposure between the two halves. I'm working on a way around that--the perils of a point & shoot camera with no manual exposure settings.
Oh, and the pics are way to big. I'm gonna downsize em when I get a chance.