Museo de Naipes, Havana, Cuba
A couple months ago I told you about the Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer, a museum in suburban ...
Tag: History
Chicago History Museum’s Collection
Happy May Day! No, I’m not talking about the celebration of spring, like in the film Wicker Man, today is ...
Home of Charles Darwin – Down House
Feb 12 is the birthday of naturalist Charles Darwin. I believe he would be 206 years old…otherwise known as dead. ...
Bat Tower
Ever try to fix a problem and it doesn’t work? Well, in the 1920s Richter Clyde Perky, the largest landowner ...
Skógar Folk Museum, Iceland
Who doesn’t love a tiny museum, especially in a remote place like the South Coast of Iceland? The Skógar Folk ...
Pest House Medical Museum
A taphophile is someone who loves cemeteries and funerals, which is completely different from necrophilia, a sexual attraction to corpses. ...
Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois
When it comes to house museums, there will always be the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, like The Breakers, or ...
President’s Day – 44 Artifacts For 44 Presidents (Part 2)
Today is Presidents’ Day in the United States of America, which means you’re supposed to buy a mattress on sale ...
National Museum of American History
Happy (Inter?) National Coffee Day! Today you’re supposed to celebrate everybody’s favourite “wake me the hell up!” beverage with visits ...
Great Britain’s graveyards
This post isn’t about anything in particular (I mean it’s hardly museum-related) but I see it as my last chance ...
