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Museum Monday: Elvis’s airplanes at Graceland

08/15/10

There are more than 700 aviation and space museums around the country. Each Monday we profile one of them. Eventually we’ll hit them all. Today, to mark the anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on August 16th, 1977, we’ll make a stop at Graceland, where two of Elvis’s jets are on display. This Lockheed JetStar was →

Polar Bears and Musk Ox at Anchorage Airport

08/13/10

Ted Stevens, the former senator from Alaska who died in a plane crash earlier this week, had the pleasure of seeing a lot of things named for him while he was alive. The Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is one of them. The terminal offers free wireless Internet access and is home to the Alaska →

Fresh art at Phoenix and Austin airports

08/11/10

Stuck at the airport? Look around. You may find an art exhibit right around the corner. A new exhibit at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport- Fiber Art Unraveled: Material and Process – features work by 19 Arizona artists. Here are a few samples: Nick Georgiou’s Green Reindeer is made from newspapers and discarded books; Clare →

Museum Monday: 1940 Air Terminal Museum, Houston Hobby Airport

08/09/10

There are close to 700 aviation and space museums in this country. Each Monday, we take a look at one of them. Stick around. Eventually we’ll visit them all! This week: The 1940 Air Terminal Museum at Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport. Housed in the airport’s original art deco air terminal,the museum is dedicated to →

Love the layover: Meet some mummies

08/07/10

Zombies may be trendy right now, but the madness for mummies is eternal. That’s what I found out while putting together a Mummy Madness story this week for msnbc.com. Before I started my research I called my buddy Adam Woog, who wrote a book about mummies for the middle-school market. “Mummies are creepy and cool,” →

Ironing things out at Philadelphia International Airport

08/05/10

A new exhibit at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) might make you a bit self-conscious about your wrinkled travel outfit. The exhibit features classic, streamlined clothes irons made in the 1930s and 40s, on loan from the collection of Jay Raymond, who has written a book on the subject. Why irons at the airport? “Like aircraft, →

Tidbits for travelers: Free Wifi at Toronto airport; fresh art at SNA; contraband at JFK

08/05/10

Here at StuckatTheAirport.com we’re a big fan of free wireless Internet at all airports. Slowly but surely we’re moving in that direction. In July, Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) began offering free Wi-FI to all travelers and now comes word that Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) began offering free Wi-Fi at the beginning of this month →

Book art at Albany International Airport (ALB)

08/03/10

In New York, the Albany International Airport (ALB) Art and Culture Program has just kicked off “The Imaged Word,” an exhibition featuring works by a variety of artists all on the theme of books and the words inside them. Most of the work is in the airport’s (pre-security) third floor gallery, the same floor as →

Museum Monday: 1928 biplane inside Ottawa International Airport

08/01/10

There are close to 700 aviation and space museums in the country. Each Monday, we explore one of them. This week we have the story of a fun partnership between Canada’s Ottawa International Airport (YOW) and Vintage Wings of Canada, a local organization that acquires, restores, maintains and flies classic and significant aircraft, with an →

Museum Monday: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

07/26/10

There are close to 700 aviation and space museums around the country. Each Monday here at StuckatTheAirport.com, we feature one of them. This week: The National Museum of the US Air Force. This museum has a lot of fans and I took a lot of heat for leaving it out of a recent msnbc.com column →

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