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...
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...
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 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...
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 was a comic by German-American painter and caricaturist Lyonel Feininger and published by the Chicago Sunday Tribune in 1906-07.
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...
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...
At New York City’s Jewish Museum the author Maurice Sendak has rummaged through their collection and personally chosen 33 menorahs from the 18th to the 20th centuries for the exhibit, “An Artist Remembers: Hanukkah Lamps Selected by Maurice Sendak”. Also included in the display are original drawings from Sendak’s books,...
It’s time for some more exploration into new countries with the August von Spiess Museum of Hunting. The museum is named after the well-known figure Colonel August von Spiess, who was the Keeper of Royal Hunting under King Ferdinand I of Romania. The museum has a whole room dedicated to...
