Formerly known as the Institute and Museum of the History of Science, the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy is a must-see for science nerds everywhere. There are over a thousand objects, including globes, barometers and microscopes from the last five centuries. But the most interesting part of the museum is...
Not much different from your everyday fish market, the Kori no Suizokukan in Kesennuma, Japan, packs about 450 species of marine life frozen in large columns of ice bathed in blue light. It takes awhile for visitors to realize the specimens are not for sale, but are part of a...
Sorry to disappoint you guys but the Amber Museum is not about everyone’s favorite character from the movie Clueless. Besides being the name of annoying bitches everywhere, it’s also a hard translucent brownish-yellow fossil resin used for making jewelry and other ornamental objects since at least the 4th century BC....
After you study and analyse museums intensely for over a year, visiting them on a nearly daily basis, there is nothing that leaves a significant impression in your mind. You feel like you’ve seen it all. Most of the time you’re just plain bored. But that all changed for me...
If I had to write a top five list of places in Europe I must see before I die, this next city would definitely be on it. Luckily, Julia, also known as adventuresinparadise, doesn’t mind paying the 18.50 Euro to go inside her favourite local tourist destination in order to...
Last month on a whim my friend and I decided to visit the Billy Graham Museum at Wheaton College. Or maybe it was all part of God’s plan. I guess I’ll never know. Graham went to several Bible colleges before eventually graduating from Wheaton College in 1943. But Wheaton is...
In one of my last posts I mentioned I have been a pet sitter for over a decade. Once in awhile I get a crazy cat lady (shocker…I know) who lives in a house that should be featured on Hoarders. One customer literally lived in a um, store/museum/warehouse. Her entire...
I’m bringing back one of my favorite discoveries from this past year for American Guide Week. I personally paid a visit to Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop in Evanston, a town on the border of Chicago. After looking at all the various pieces of jewelry and crystal in the...
We all have opinions on what is considered “real art”. As someone who grew up with a mom who was a struggling artist, I have many thoughts on this subject, and have covered it a few times already on this blog. I still have the vivid memory of an older...
Artist Dorr Bothwell’s sketch of visitors at the San Francisco Art Museum in 1942, part of “A Day at the Museum”, a museum exhibit about museum exhibits at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, open through 2 June 2013. Some of the items on display include famous artists’ letters, recorded...
Shout out to Conan O'Brien’s first guest on his new late-night show, Nutcracker Museum curator Arlene Wagner, a former ballet teacher who used to be involved with the production of…wait for it…The Nutcracker! She started the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum in Washington State about 15 years ago with the mission “to...
Horse-drawn delivery vehicles get the attention they fully deserve at the Thrasher Carriage Museum in Frostburg, Maryland. I know…I know. Sometimes I stay up late at night worried there are not enough museums about this subject. Thank god someone like Mr. James Thrasher had the foresight to begin collecting them...
