If you recall, I once told you about the Comic Strip Center in Brussels, Belgium. Well, Belgians really, really, really like comics…so much that they even have a comic strip walk that starts at the De Brouckere metro station and ends at the Comic Café on the Grand Sablon. Along...
The Lightnin’ Salvage Junk Museum in Gainesville, Florida is part junk museum, part souvenir shop and part pizza parlor. A highlight is the “Walk-O-Junk” made of every item known to man from vacuum cleaners and plastic toys to bicycle wheels and old HP printers. But when a place is called...
Images have been manipulated since the camera was invented, long before the faux vintage filters of instagram took over the world. Next month the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens an exhibit entitled Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop. Featuring hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through the 1990s, it is...
The only childhood memory I have of the yo-yo is that I couldn’t get it to work. So in frustration I tossed the stupid thing aside and went to read a book. For people born after 1990, there was actually a time when young people played with real things. Believe...
Pretty much everyone knows about Santa Claus, Indiana. I once told you about the town’s post office and museum, which has been the official headquarters for all those “Dear Santa” letters since 1914. Forget the internet! People really, really, really want a Santa Claus, IN postmark. But did you know...
Thanks to that movie Amélie everyone thinks they’re being cute or adventurous by taking a gnome with them on a trip. A few years ago an acquaintance of mine was “doing Europe” (that shit makes me groan) by seeing like 15 countries in 60 days. If you figured out this...
I have a friend who collects various versions of Monopoly games. I wonder if she knows that Discovery Meadow, near the Children’s Discovery Museum in San Jose, California has the “Monopoly in the Park” board, the largest permanent version of the game in the world. Constructed in 1992, the massive...
A few times a year I like to visit Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo. I specifically go to see one thing - the Regenstein Center for African Apes. As I sit or stand there alone, I notice the similarities between them and humans, whether it’s a chimp scratching his foot or...
More than half of British tourists visit the same destination each year. I like to call them “monogamous travelers” as opposed to “an adventurer” like me, who never goes to the same place twice. My friend’s husband is the former. He visits Disneyland (or anything Disney-related) every single year for...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! Every year during the month of October THIS BELONGS IN A MUSEUM attempts to highlight some Halloween-worthy museums and attractions. I hope you enjoyed learning about them. Maybe one day you will be able to visit Munich’s Asamkirche where a gilded skeleton sculpture tries to cut down an...
