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Love the layover: at play in Portland, Oregon

02/15/13

It’s always a bit strange for me to spend time in Portland, Oregon. It’s the first city I lived in when I moved out west and it’s the city now portrayed in a fun and fractured way in the IFC show Portlandia and in Portlandia: A Guide for Visitors, a book that claims to describe →

Exhibition of souvenirs at San Francisco International Airport

01/10/13

Tokens of travel come in all forms: from photos and hotel keys to shells, rocks, postcards and handcrafted or mass-produced souvenirs. Keep that in mind as you enjoy the new SFO Museum exhibition at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) filled with mementos from the nineteenth century to the present, including sailors’ valentines, world’s fair souvenirs, →

Oval Office audio tapes highlight of re-designed LBJ Presidential Library

12/22/12

When the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas reopens to the public this Saturday – on what would have been Lady Bird Johnson’s 100th birthday – visitors will be able to listen to more than sixty history-making, poignant and amusing oval office phone calls and get reacquainted with an animatronic, →

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Indianapolis 500 cars at Indianapolis Airport

11/23/12

Car racing fans take note: classic Indianapolis 500 race cars will be on display at the Indianapolis International Airport (IND) through October 2013. The first two cars on loan from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum are the Sugaripe Prune Eagle/Offy (above) driven to second place by Bill Vukovich Jr. in the 1973 →

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A trip to the ditch

11/16/12

For me, it’s the memories of travel misadventures that seem to last longer and teach me more about a place and its people than that great meal or that lovely scenery. Take tonight. Please. I’m on a mini-tour of Washington State’s San Juan Islands doing a Humanities Washington presentation about Hidden Treasures in Museums. Tonight’s →

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TSA has a museum? Yup, it does.

10/25/12

I’m finishing up a book about museums and the things they can’t or don’t show to the public, so was delighted to learn that the TSA has a museum that’s off limits to the general public because it’s inside TSA headquarters (which is off-limits to the general public) and because the intended audience for the →

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Museum Monday: Richard Nixon arm wrestles George McGovern

10/22/12

The death on Sunday, October 21st of George McGovern – who ran an unsuccessful campaign for president in 1972 against Richard Nixon – gives me the opportunity to offer a sneak preview of something that will be in my new book about things museums have that are rarely shown to the public. Tucked away at →

Museum Monday: Katharine Wright’s pantaloons

10/15/12

I’m racing to finish up the entries for my Hidden Museum Treasures book, which will feature the stories behind objects in museums that are rarely or never displayed. When the project began, I put a call out seeking nominations from museums around the country. The International Women’s Air & Space Museum in Cleveland, Ohio was →

Free museums & expensive luggage delivery

08/04/12

I’m a big fan of “free” and a big fan of the Museums on Us program that offers free admission on the first weekend of each month to more than 150 museums around the country to anyone who has Bank of America or Merrill Lynch credit or debit card. The list includes museums, zoos and →

Attractions to visit on your way to the airport

07/19/12

I call it “Do I dare?” time. That hour or two at the end of a business trip when I’ve wrapped up my work, packed up my stuff, printed out my boarding pass and don’t really have to leave for the airport just yet. Do I dare use that time to squeeze in a visit →

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