The 1963 Campaign led by civil rights activists in Birmingham, Alabama (which at the time was one of the most racially divided cities in the U.S.) culminated in a number of widely publicized confrontations between young black students and white civic authorities, mostly through water hoses and police dogs, that...
This post is dedicated to my 500th follower artexpo. Let’s travel to another unexplored country with a visit to the Lofoten Torrfiskmuseum (Stockfish Museum) in Norway. What’s stockfish, you ask? Unsalted fish like cod, whitefish, pollock, haddock, long and tusk have been dried on wooden racks or in special drying...
The National Maritime Museum consists of three linked sites: the Maritime Galleries, the Royal Observatory and the 17th-century Queen’s House. Located on the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, the Museum incorporates the Prime Meridian of the world and London’s only planetarium.
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...
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...
I’ve never been to Ireland, but my friend visited once during St. Patrick’s Day and to her surprise it was a very quiet day. The only other people celebrating the holiday appeared to be Americans (we’re annoying wherever we go). I should have warned her. When I was living in...
I’m not a huge fan of asparagus. Occasionally I’ll have it in a salad or quiche, but to visit a whole museum dedicated to it is a bit much, even for me. Since 1985, the European Asparagus Museum (Europäisches Spargelmuseum) has been located in Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany. In Germany the...
Considering it was just last month, I’m sure most of you still remember our guest posts. But everyone seems to have the 3 second attention span of goldfish, so who knows? Well, we have another piece written by Alli Burness, who documents her travels around the world visiting museums at...
My mind always focuses on what ifs. One of my biggest regrets whilst living in England was not going to the Photography Museum (now known as the National Media Museum). I had friends who lived nearby. And even though we went through Bradford a few times, I never thought to...
Although John Adams wanted Independence Day to be celebrated on July 2 because that’s when Congress approved independence from Britain and the majority of delegates signed the Declaration of Independence on August 2, today is America’s birthday. The dates are all screwed up, but everything’s fine as long as you...
