Let’s visit Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen’s favorite museum, the Troll Museum. On New York City’s Lower East Side, a woman in elf ears named Reverend Jen and her pet chihuahua (Reverend Jen Jr. of course…who also happens to be a dog model) will give you a FREE guided tour...
I always loved the ubiquitousness of Georges Seurat’s painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, from the reproduced handbags and umbrellasto whatever this is supposed to be, a random mural in the otherwise bleak town of Hammond, Indiana. But nothing beats staring at your own Discover...
Amsterdam is unordinary - often touted as a traveler's paradise. Amsterdam is in fact a compact and immediately likeable city in Europe. It is known throughout the world as one of the greatest small cities in the world. Trying to figure out which museums in Amsterdam to visit? In Amsterdam...
Sorry for the nearly two week absence. I’m sure no one noticed…or even cared. I think I might be getting sick of the internet. Sometimes it’s good to step away for periods of time, which I might be doing more and more in the months to come. Anyway, on my...
In the ever-expanding digital age, I have to wonder if kiddies still hang posters on their walls? Because I know I did, from the floorboards to the ceiling. Kind of creepy to think of those random celebrity faces staring back at me. Well, anyway this mass-produced “art form” of large...
Queen Elizabeth II watermark from her 1953 coronation Do you think in this paperless digital age that we should have a paper museum? Well, we do. Atlanta’s Robert C. Williams Paper Museum is the number one resource for learning about the history of paper and paper technology. There’s more than...
Edinburgh Museum of Childhood, Scotland “The Museum of Childhood collection was founded by Patrick Murray, a passionate collector of toys and childhood objects who was also an Edinburgh Town Councillor. Objects in the collection span the 18th to 21st centuries…with large collections of toys, games, crafts and hobby items, from...
America’s first (and apparently finest) Wax Museum is located in Saint Augustine, Florida. Here you can see amazing life-like statues, such as Wolfgang Mozart, and who knows what else. Doesn’t this postcard make you want to go?
Mikhail Gorbachev, Leonid Brezhnev, Nikita Khrushchev and Joseph Stalin Royal Air Force Museum in Cosford, England
I recently reread In Cold Blood for the second time a few months ago, and I don’t care about the factual discrepancies and recreated dialogue, it’s a damn good book. So with the 1959 Clutter family murder on my mind, I wondered if there was a museum dedicated to the...
Remember when Tim Burton used to make good movies? Well, a devoted fan opened a museum last year dedicated to one of Burton’s earliest works, and no, we’re not talking about Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (even though that’s not a bad idea). In the middle of New York City, one can...
The Frank and Jane Clement Brick Museum in Buffalo, New York has a collection of, well, you guessed it…a ton of bricks. The museum isn’t one in the classic sense, but located in the Clement Family home in suburban Orchard Park. Their driveway features 12,000 “brand” bricks from across the...
