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America’s Cup artifacts at SFO Museum

08/27/13

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Little Golden Books and Presidential Hair

08/12/13

Little Golden Books and Presidential Hair: from must-see exhibition at the National Museum of American History →

Stitching project to recreate Star-Spangled Banner

07/02/13

It’s a rare day when Baltimore-area quilter Joan Zelinka does not stitch. So she’s pleased to be part of a project kicking off Thursday, July 4 that will recreate the flag with “broad stripes and bright stars” that flew during the War of 1812 and inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem that later →

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

Souvenir Sunday: a 150-year-old pickle

05/25/13

As souvenirs go, this is a winner. This weekend I visited the Lynden Pioneer Museum in Dutch-themed Lynden, Washington to give my Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau presentation about things museums have that they can’t or won’t show you. During the event, museum director/curator Troy Luginbill was kind enough to bring out a hidden treasure from →

More snaps from Fiji Airways A330 send-off

05/22/13

Fiji Airways had a party at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Tuesday to celebrate this Airbus A330 airplane, which will start flying between LAX and Fiji in July as the airline ramps up service between LAX and Nadi International Airport (NAN). I wrote earlier about the airline’s new livery, the Fijian artist who created →

Got a second? Time & Navigation exhibit at the Smithsonian

04/28/13

The National Air & Space Museum and the National Museum of American History have joined forces to create a new permanent exhibition at the Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. called Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There. The new exhibit explores how revolutions in timekeeping allowed people to →

SFO Museum displays vintage United Airlines uniforms

04/07/13

The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport is currently displaying eighteen United Airlines flight attendant uniforms, some of them dating back to the 1930s. The exhibit is part of a donation of fifty-five flight attendant uniforms given to the SFO Museum by the United Airlines Historical Foundation and which represent the full history of →

Photos of Wonder Woman’s Invisible Airplane

04/03/13

There were plenty of aviation-related pranks pulled earlier this week for April Fools’ Day, but by far the best one was this press release sent out by Seattle’s Museum of Flight announcing a three day exhibit featuring Wonder Woman’s invisible plane. The description of the plane was intriguing: “Developed using still-mysterious Amazon stealth technology decades →

Five cool cruise ship exhibits

03/21/13

Whether you’re a veteran of multiple trans-Atlantic crossings or have yet to set sail on your first weekend party cruise to the Bahamas, there’s plenty to learn about the history of cruise ships and the culture of cruising. Don’t worry if you’re prone to sea-sickness; only one of these cool cruise-themed museum exhibits is not →

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