Geppi's Entertainment Museum

This past weekend I visited Geppi's Entertainment Museum and to my surprise I found the exhibit very interesting. Before entering the museum I did not know what to expect and came out with an amazing appreciation for old forms of art. Overall, I really liked the setup and how it gradually went from the past, to everything he had collected, to the future and how different forms of art have developed. I think the museum contains several pieces of history and things from the past that we do not recognize everyday.

The comic book collection had caught my attention immediately, because I never took the time to notice how many comic series there were, and the different superheroes and villains that exist besides, Superman and Batman. Many of my childhood television shows sprung up from comic book collections. The very first DC Comic entered the public eye around 1930, only costing ten cent. Although the comics date back so late, there are still great deals of them on the market today. Furthermore, as I was leaving the comic book exhibit and I was able to view one of the latest edition comics through a computerized show. It amazes me how one of the first editions were hand drawn, and today we can view them with 3-D glasses and filled front to back with color, it goes to show you how much things have changed over the years.

As I continued to walk through the museum I took great interest in the 3-D pictures that hung in the corner by Superman. I found this very intriguing because my cousin use to design 3-D portraits like the ones framed in the museum. On the other hand, if I had to say that there was one thing that I did not find very eye catching would be the room filled with dolls, boats, trains, marbles, and other toys that were designed specifically to educate the youth. In my opinion, I was a little creped out by the way the dolls were set up, and how bland the actual arrangement was displayed. As I was exiting the room something caught my eye, it was Yellow Kid. I started to read about Yellow kid and how he emerged as the lead character in Hogan’s Alley which became one of the first Sunday comic strips in American newspapers.

Throughout my childhood I always remembered the Looney Toons and several other play figures, along with Barbie, and the McDonalds nugget collection that you could re-dress and play with. I was very excited to see how certain collections evolved over years and what they are today. I was expecting to view more about different time periods and the shifts that had occurred from one item to another, but by the time I left the museum I did not feel that there was anything controversial within the exhibit, only artifacts from the past that I grew up on and enjoyed as a child.

Finally, in the beginning of the tour we were given a card that you could scan and test your knowledge of what you had seen. I had answered 7 questions correctly and skipped only one. I had to ask the staff members, “what can I buy a duck with?” In the end I walked away with a free comic book from the DC characters. All in all, I was very excited to step out of the norms and visit Geppi’s Entertainment Museum because it opened my eyes to a lot of new and exciting things that I had no clue were even out there.