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OmniGlobe lands at Dallas Love Field

07/15/15

You may not be able to use it to see Pluto – just yet – but an OmniGlobe now on loan to Dallas Love Field airport will let you tune in more than 180 different interactive spherical displays depicting everything from the planets to the Earth’s wind current patterns, the land mass movement from 600 […]

Travel Tidbits: airports offer art, history & music

07/09/15

Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport has a new piece of art – a kinetic work by Tim Prentice called Slalom in the baggage claim area. The piece includes a gently undulating ribbon of reflective kinetic elements that float overhead and weave through the building’s support columns and will create an “ever-changing sequence of varied and […]

Magna Carta exhibit at MSP Airport

06/19/15

A new exhibit celebrating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, titled Magna Carta to Minnesota: the Rule of Law, is on view between Gate C6 to 11 in Concourse C at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. “Celebrating the 800th anniversary of the charter is important because its central to how we live our lives,” […]

Toy exhibit at Austin Airport

05/27/15

A great selection of 20th century dolls and toys, including cast metal figures, wind-ups, electric trains and action figures from the (yet to open) Austin Toy Museum are on display in the east and west food courts at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. There’s a Kewpie doll from 1925, a Lionel streamlined steam locomotive with tender from […]

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Superman spotted at Cleveland Airport

04/16/15

If you’re flying in to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) and you don’t check baggage, you might miss a chance to see Superman. The exhibit in the airport baggage claim area features a Superman statue and a wall filled with tidbits about the superhero that was first created in Cleveland.

Greetings from: Tokyo Narita Airport

04/09/15

Technically, it is a shop selling gift boxes of Japanese confections. But the Nippon Origami Museum in Terminal 1 at Tokyo’s Narita Airport devotes most of its space displays of creative, offbeat and surprising examples of origami. Here are a few more samples spotted on a short middle-of-the-night layover: The Origami Museum shop is just […]

San Diego Airport & the Panama-California Exposition

03/26/15

As part of San Diego’s year-long celebration for the centennial of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, San Diego International Airport is hosting a year-long exhibition celebrating San Diego’s 1915 Panama-California Exposition. The exhibit is airport-wide, with 30 installations, and includes original artwork and historic images, collectibles, artifacts and large-format photographs and postcards that show off the […]

Art Deco on exhibit at SFO Airport

03/25/15

A new exhibition at San Francisco International Airport displays fashionable and everyday items that evoke the Art Deco era, from works by French sculptors to airline-shaped cocktail shakers and streamlined radios. Need a quick quick recap on Art Deco? The exhibition notes tell us that this design style popular in the 1920s and ’30s […]

Quilt & fiber art exhibit at Reno-Tahoe Int’l Airport

03/19/15

You can’t cozy up with them, but you can tour the quilts and fiber art on display in the depARTures gallery at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Created by the 150-member Carson Valley Quilt Guild, the work is on display through April 19, 2015.

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Spotted in Sydney

09/28/14

Greetings from Sydney, Australia. I’ve been here for three – way too short – days and heading to Dallas on Monday with Qantas Airways, which starts flying the A380 between Sydney and Dallas on Monday, September 29th. With the help of Destination NSW, I’ve been racing around the city trying to see the sights – […]

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