By C.J. Hirschfield
Children’s Fairyland, which
opened in September 1950, was the first storybook theme park in America. Many other
themed attractions followed, and over the decades the number of theme parks and
specialty museums has exploded. Museums celebrating sex, the Mob, chocolate,
spies, prison and Biblical Creation regularly draw crowds across the world.
I want to note two new entries
into the field: the world’s largest indoor theme park, which opened last week
in Dubai, and a museum devoted to Spam (the food, not the annoying junk mail)
that opened a few months ago in Austin, Minnesota.
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| The Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota. Photo via Meat + Poultry. |
