But, I digress from my main point.
Prague is a great city. I can't imagine a person would run out of things to do if they lived here for fifty years.
On to today.
I woke up a man without obligation. The day prior I had seen a cool looking museum and had decided that I should go there. I had no idea what it was as I can't read Czech, but it looked impressive and national museum-y. I got my ticket with my student discount. Which is awesome because I'm not actually a student anywhere. I just kind of have a Northland Community and Technical College I.D. handy.
Turns out it was a museum about death.
Yeah, It came as a shock to me when I walked into the first room and it was a pretty obvious preamble to a larger exhibit on cultural practices of death and dying. I hadn't woken up with a large desire to see a bunch of human remains, but damn it was interesting as hell.
"Oh look, a skull rack"
The majority of the exhibit was dedicated to what dying is, why dying happens, how humans have seen dying throughout the ages, and burial practices. The last part was all about unnatural death (Murder, Suicide) and seemed to be a little kitchy in comparison to the rest of the content. It took a swing to "This is how people buried esteemed elders in ancient Rome" to "HEY LOOK THIS IS A REAL GALLOWS OMGOMG LOOK AT THAT NOOSE HAHAHA".
If you're ever in Prague, I'd recommend finding this place for the death exhibit. It's right at the end of Wenceslas square. You can't miss it, people are just dying to get there.
Your dad would have LOVED that!
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