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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 […]

Museum Monday: at the BEACH

07/13/15

Can’t make it to the beach this summer? You’re in luck. If you can make it to Washington, D.C.’s, there’s a temporary beach at the National Building Museum in the museum’s Great Hall. Built in partnership with Snarkitecture, the BEACH covers 10,000 square feet and includes an “ocean” of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic […]

Step on it! Oregon’s World of Speed Museum

06/01/15

It’s not just airplanes that go fast… There’s a new museum for horsepower hounds, speed fiends and fans of NASCAR, the Indianapolis 500 and anything with a motor that goes fast. Located 15 miles south of Portland, Oregon, in Wilsonville, the World of Speed Museum is home to nearly 100 historic cars and motorcycles, along […]

Museum Monday: Egyptian Revival at SFO Airport

01/11/15

The SFO Museum’s newest exhibit at SFO Airport highlights the design style known as Egyptian Revival and features objects ranging from nineteenth-century mantel clocks and ornate Victorian table stands to Art Deco beaded purses and cigarettes and cigarette cases. Cleopatra, the Rosetta Stone and King Tutankahamun’s tomb are just a few reasons why the West […]

Museum Monday: Up, up and away

01/05/15

Today, airplanes take us from here to there in the air. But back in 1783, traveling by balloon became the big thing. That’s when the Montgolfier brothers made a hot air balloon out of paper and silk in Paris and took the first free flight carrying a human. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum […]

Museum Monday: Hawaii by Air exhibit

07/28/14

Museum Monday: Hawaii by Air exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum

Museum Monday: aluminum Christmas Trees

11/25/13

Museum Monday: Wisconsin exhibit of aluminum Christmas Trees

aluminum Christmas Trees

Nautical arts at SFO Int’l Airport

05/26/13

If you’re traveling to or through San Francisco International Airport (SFO), be sure to leave some time to explore the newest exhibit from the SFO Museum: From Ship to Shore: Nautical Arts from the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, on view in Terminal 2 through December. The exhibit displays ingeniously crafted items made by […]

Nautical arts at SFO Int'l Airport

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