Nerd Alert!

Well at least that's what Christie said when I told her I was taking her to the Skyscraper museum.  Found in Battery park on Manhattan's southern tip, the skyscraper museum was everything you think it is.

New York has a ton of world renowned museums but none of them got me as excited as seeing the models inside.

The museum is fairly small, probably as big of a Walgreens.  It was on the bottom floor of a larger development, but I could have spent hours there.






They had a great model of downtown Manhattan and Christie was trying to find our apartment building.  I am pretty sure this is where her excitement and enthusiasm peaked as the next hour was filled with wooden models, metal models, paper models, foam models, and all the information possible about each building as well.

So they currently had the Supertall exhibit, which is why I wanted to attend.

Supertall = 1250 feet or higher.  Essentially any building that is taller than the Empire State building.

Below are some pics of the taller buidlings in the world.  
The Burj Khalifa which is the middle one, is in Dubai and is 2717 feet!  That is over twice the size of the Empire State Building!!!

They had a great exhibit about the world trade center history (you would never have guessed the towers were originally built right on the water!  All the dirt that they dug up for the towers made the battery park city area that the skyscraper museum now stands.

And with the past come the present, which every week is going higher and higher towards its ultimate goal of 1776 feet.

Sorry to those that I bored to sleep, I kept all the details to myself.