The Jewish Museum in Berlin
The Jewish Museum in Berlin was definitely a meaningful experience for a museologist (and half-Jew) like me. But it sounds like their current exhibit “The Whole Truth” is causing a lot of controversy in more ways than one. To help educate postwar generations who are largely uninformed and have no...
Graceland Too in Holly Springs, Mississippi (Paul MacLeod)
Elvis died August 16, 1977 (or did he???). I’ve been wanting to write about this place for, I don’t know, a few years but I’ll let American Guide tell you about it because I am a lazy procrastinator who actually hasn’t even been to the original Graceland (one day I’ll...
Rose Museum dedicated to the history of Carnegie Hall – New York City
Sorry to disappoint any ornamental plant fans out there, but the Rose Museum is actually named after the Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation, which helps support a small museum dedicated to the history of Carnegie Hall. Opened in 1991 as part of the 100th anniversary, the museum displays its permanent...
The Museo Beatle – Buenos Aires, Argentina
I bet you had no idea it’s been 50 years since the Beatles traveled to America for their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Well, let me be the first to tell ya, ladies and gents. For a firsthand account on a Beatles-related attraction I could tell you about that...
The Marianne North Gallery of Botanic Art in Kew Gardens, London
I think the saying is “April showers bring May flowers” or something like that. Even though when it comes to the British Isles I think the rainy period lasts more than a month, it’s more like all year. Anyway, the Marianne North Gallery of Botanic Art in Kew Gardens has...
Japanese Rural Toy Museum Kurashiki, Japan
The Japanese Rural Toy Museum, founded in 1967, is hidden behind a bunch of old warehouses in the back alleys of Kurashiki. Hundreds of handmade and antique toys from different parts of Japan are displayed in four rooms of a converted rice storehouse, including over 200 kites plus bells and...
Bottle Caps House – Siberia, Russia
Siberia is a lonely place. One woman in the far away remote village of Kamarchaga, located in the Siberian Taiga, has found a very entertaining hobby to help pass the time. Russian pensioner Olga Kostina has decorated her wooden home with over 30,000 plastic bottle caps. Over several years she...
Garfield-Clarendon Model Railroad Club in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood
I bet you didn’t know November is National Model Railroad Month. Well, last month I just happened to visit the Garfield-Clarendon Model Railroad Club in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Chicago is or was the railroad capital of the world so it seems appropriate the city is home to one of the...
The Kin-der-kids, Lyonel Feininger, lithograph comic strip, MOMA
The Kin-der-kids, Lyonel Feininger, lithograph comic strip, MOMA The Kin-der-Kids was a comic by German-American painter and caricaturist Lyonel Feininger and published by the Chicago Sunday Tribune in 1906-07.
The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, England
I think this week Kanye and I will tell you about our favorite museums of all time. Okay…I know I haven’t seen every museum in the world, but I’ve been to quite a few in my day, especially when I studied them for a year and a half. So I...
Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences
I was in the middle of writing something fairly interesting, then walked away to do non-internet things and several hours later all I have to say is “ah fuck it, who cares?” Instead I leave you with a picture from the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences. Down in the...
Zair Azgur Museum, Belarus
Tomorrow might be American Independence Day, but let’s not forget that other countries celebrate their freedoms too. Maybe not with hot dogs and beer and fireworks and loud, drunk people but still…freedom isn’t always annoying-free. Uh…can you tell it is my least favorite holiday? One country we have not yet...
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