Apparently the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus hit shelves today, giving purpose to the lives of people who have enough free time to sleep outside an Apple store. I love Apple products, like I would die for my still-functioning 6-year-old iMac, but when it comes to phones I’m more...
Concrete Utilities (now CU Phosco) based in Ware, Hertfordshire, were amongst the biggest of the manufacturers of concrete street lighting columns - and for many years they maintained a museum collection of both their columns and examples of old cast iron and steel columns. This is the cover of a...
With the exception of a few random places like Shankar’s International Dolls Museum, Vishala Environmental Centre for Heritage and Arts' Utensils Museum and Sudha Cars Museum, the blog hasn’t spent much time in India. Well, let me change that with this next post. Second only to the Taj Mahal in...
When the museum becomes a shop…. “For many people a visit to the gift shop is an important part of of visiting a museum or gallery: buying a postcard or print of a favourite work, a book, headscarf or even a reproduction as something to take away from the experience....
I have no idea what the hell Matkot is, but I do know for a fact that Israel is home to more museums per capita than anywhere else in the world. And when a country has so many museums, of course a few will end up being a bit random,...
In honor of her 90th birthday, today we will pay a visit to the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield, North Carolina. Born in nearby Grabtown on Christmas Eve 1922, Gardner’s family were poor tobacco farmers who lost their property when she was still young. It did not look like a...
If I told you I haven’t been to the dentist in a long ass time, will you hate me and send me to Gingivitis Hell. Or should we just tell dumb British bad teeth jokes? Anyway, there’s a better chance of me visiting the National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore...
The Jewish New Year began yesterday evening at sunset. What better way to party like it’s 5773 than with the Center for Jewish History’s wonderful selection of vintage Rosh Hashanah greeting cards. All date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and are written in English, Hebrew and Yiddish....
I’d like to think I wasn’t a bad person during my younger days. Well, except for that time I tried to stab a boy with a carving tool in pottery class (he had been making fun of me for months but he probably just liked me???) that led to a...
Thanks to the American roadside wax museum, even this daffy site can commemorate such a somber event. ,Verso:,“JOHN BROWN,Oct. 16, 1859, John Brown and 21 others captured the United States arsenal and rifle works at Harper’s Ferry, Va., now W. Va., with the intention of setting up a mountain refuge...
