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Museum Monday: Games of Chance at SFO Airport

12/11/16

If, by chance, you’ve got some time before or between flights at San Francisco International Airport, you’re in luck. That’s because the SFO Museum has just kicked off a new exhibition featuring more than sixty examples of early gambling devices, including the first automatic payout, three reel slot machine. According to the exhibition →

Museum Monday: solar system made in Kentucky

10/10/16

Museum Monday: a look at a mechanical solar system in Kentucky. →

Museum Monday: SFO Museum’s latest offering

08/01/16

The newest exhibit from the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport, “From Print to Plate: Views of the East on Transferware,” features early nineteenth-century blue-and-white transferware with scenes of India, the Middle East, and China. You’ve likely seen examples of transferware or transferware-like plates, but never looked closely at the actual images there. If →

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See Neil Armstrong’s gloves & helmet

07/25/16

The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum is displaying Neil Armstrong's restored gloves and helmet for a year. →

Museum Monday: Corkscrew collection at the CIA

04/11/16

Museum Monday: Brother Timothy's Corkscrew Collection at the Culinary Institute of Arts (CIA) in California. →

Museum Monday: SPAM Museum reopening

03/28/16

If you're a fan of the tinned meat product known as SPAM, then you have a new reason to plan a trip to Austin, Minnesota: the new and improved Spam Museum is opening on August 22, 2016. →

Museum Monday: odd Amsterdam

02/22/16

Odd Amsterdam: Yes, you should go to the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum, but don't miss these odd and offbeat museums in Amsterdam. →

Museum Monday: suitcases in a museum

02/14/16

Museums Monday on StuckatTheAirport.com: a few items spotted at Amsterdam's Museum of Bags and Purses →

Amsterdam Museum of Bags and Purses

Classic football memorabilia at SFO Museum

10/01/15

More than one million people are expected to attend the week-long festivities in the San Francisco Bay Area leading up to Super Bowl 50 on February 7, 2016, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. In preparation, the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport is hosting a football-themed exhibition featuring memorabilia and game-worn artifacts →

Museum Monday: Cancun’s underwater museum

08/31/15

It’s been far too long since I visited Cancun and the Cancun International Airport , but the news about a fresh set of sculptures being submerged at Cancun’s Underwater Museum of Art (MUSA) puts the area back on top of my “go soon” list. Since 2010, some 500 sculptures have been submerged in the bottom →

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