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New reasons to visit the National Air & Space Museum

05/16/25

The Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. has been undergoing a major renovation since 2018, with a completion date set for July 1, 2026, the museum’s 50th anniversary. In the meantime, fresh new galleries and exhibitions are opening in phases. Five new exhibitions, the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater and the museum’s redesigned →

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Watch out for the dinosaur at IND Airport

03/13/25

A 33-foot-long Tyrannosaurus Rex is currently towering over passengers and visitors in the pre-security Civic Plaza at Indianapolis International Airport (IND). Bucky the T. rex, as he’s known, will be onsite at IND until April 11 to help celebrate the 100th birthday of the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, which is the world’s largest children’s museum. →

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Take a free museum tour at SFO Airport

03/11/25

Arriving early for a flight or spending a long layover at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) can be a treat because SFO is one of the few US airports with an official museum program. At any one time, the airport’s SFO Museum hosts up to a dozen temporary exhibitions and keeps an eye on a →

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Let’s get out of here

03/05/25

Feeling like you need a break? We do. Between the news and the weather and, well, really just the news, we’re reading every email that pops into our inbox that has a whiff of something fun to do somewhere else. Here are some museum exhibits we’re putting on the “let’s go there” list:” Asian Comics: →

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Museum Monday: Edmund Hillary’s Camera

02/10/25

Greetings from New Zealand. When the Stuck at the Airport team isn’t hanging out in an airport, it can usually be found in a museum. And this week, while traveling through Australia and New Zealand on Holland America’s Westerdam cruise ship, we’ve been delighted to stop in towns with truly wonderful museums. One of our →

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Where to go?

01/06/25

(Queen Elizabeth II by Andy Warhol (1985). Credit: Courtesy of UCR ARTS) California sounds good Maybe it’s the new year. Maybe it’s the cold, rainy weather here at Stuck at the Airport headquarters in Seattle. But we want to go everywhere – and see everything – that pops into our inbox. In California, the Catalina →

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Places we’d go: Stradivarius exhibit in Phoenix at the Museum of Musical Instruments

11/12/24

The Stuck at the Airport Museum Team missed visiting the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix, AZ our last time through and we plan to make the MIM our first stop the next time we head that way. Which may be soon. The museum displays more than 4,200 instruments representing all the world’s countries and →

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Museum Monday: Vancouver BC’s Museum of Anthropology

10/21/24

It’s been a while since we had a chance to visit the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus. The whole museum was closed for more than a year while seismic upgrades were made to the spectacular Great Hall, which has 50-foot-tall glass walls and displays of Northwest Coast poles, house →

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SFO Museum celebrates San Francisco

10/02/24

Here’s a great reason to plan or be thankful for a long layover at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The SFO Museum‘s newest exhibition, San Francisco: City of the World, offers travelers a thoughtful, fun and educational look at the iconic city’s colorful history. Find it post-security in Terminal 2 through July 6, 2025. →

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Where to see: one of D.B. Cooper’s parachutes

09/08/24

(D.B. Cooper pink parachute courtesy Washington State History Museum) The only unsolved commercial airline hijacking in the U.S. remains the November 24, 1971 hijacking of Northwest Orient flight 305 to Seattle by someone who has come to be known as “D.B.” Cooper. (Sketch courtesy FBI) In 1971, Cooper boarded a Boeing 727 on Thanksgiving eve, →

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