Bob’s Magazine Museum in Skokie (my birthplace…why don’t they have a sign?) is a place I have driven by numerous times, but have never personally visited. You might think it’s just a store full of stuff, but it’s more than that. It’s actually more of a “museum” in there is...
Who would expect a pop-up museum in a former prison, but that’s exactly what you’ll find at the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site in Philadelphia. In operation from 1829 to 1971 and home to famous criminals like Al Capone, the facility reopened in 1994 with guided tours and special events...
Not too many museums are named after doctors, or are located in old insane asylums, so you’d be crazy to not visit this next museum. Located in Belgium’s oldest psychiatric hospital (built in 1857), the Museum Dr Guislain in Ghent has been open to the public for almost thirty years....
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to open up my own museum. Well, one man in Britain did just that, specifically with old radios, televisions and gramphones. They fill every room in his south London suburb home. This do-it-yourself museum, called the British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum,...
We’ve covered potatoes here before. Several times actually. Look at the August 2010 archive if you don’t believe me. There are several museums across the world dedicated to this starchy wonder; but surprisingly nothing for the Yukon Gold variety, which is the perfect potato for mashing. The Sweet Potato appears...
I once told you about that time I visited the Ramones Museum in Berlin. I’ve also told you about many small museums, like the 22 square foot closet known as Edgar’s Closet, the Micro Mµseum in Somerville, the World’s Largest Collection of the Smallest Versions of Large Things as well...
There’s nothing I find scarier than a Walmart store. Oh, wait…let me rephrase that…there’s nothing I find scarier than a Walmart shopper. I’m far from perfect as I have shopped at the place a few times in my life and sadly, most of that shopping took place at the Walmart-owned...
Historic photo of the Art Institute of Chicago.
I like to think of myself as a traveler and not a tourist. Three and a half years ago, I wandered the streets of Berlin with no real purpose. Of course I had some ideas of places I wanted to see, but sometimes it’s better to stay away from the...
When you think of card games, computer Solitaire is probably what first pops into your head (or maybe not, I’m just old). The dragging and dropping of digital cards with a click of a mouse, or now with a tap of a finger on a touch screen phone, sometimes it’s...
