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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 […]

California’s regional airlines at SFO Museum

06/16/15

There’s yet another great exhibit at San Francisco International Airport,courtesy of the SFO Museum. This one is all about the California regional airlines that flew between the 1950s and the 1980s. According to museum notes, although numerous regional airlines existed during the late 1920s, they mostly went bankrupt or merged into larger, trunk-carrier airlines by […]

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 […]

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 […]

Smithsonian offers eye-level view of Spirit of St. Louis

01/20/15

The “Spirit of St. Louis” – the plane in which a 26-year-old Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo transatlantic flight in May, 1927 – is one of the most popular artifacts at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The plane is usually suspended from the gallery ceiling, but for the next five months the […]

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 […]

Seattle’s Museum of Flight gets a Dreamliner

11/07/14

It’s still so new – but the 787 Dreamliner is already a museum piece. On Saturday, Nov. 8, the Boeing Company will officially donate Dreamliner “Number 3” to Seattle’s Museum of Flight. If you’re in town, you’ll be able to see the plane in the museum’s East Parking Lot all weekend and tour it from […]

Bruce Lee & 150+ museums free this weekend

10/29/14

If you’re home or on the road this weekend, and have a Bank or America or Merill Lynch credit or debit card, you’re eligible for free admission at more than 150 museums, science centers and gardens around the country, courtesy of the Museums on Us program, which makes the same offer the first full weekend […]

City break: free dinos and glittering gems in Dallas

10/03/14

If you’ve flying somewhere this weekend and have a free afternoon, check your wallet. There may be free dinosaurs or art treasures in there. If you’re a Bank of America or Merrill Lynch credit or debit card holder, you’re eligible for a free admission at more than 150 museums around the country – a perk […]

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