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Saturday is free Museum Day: take advantage of it

09/24/10

This Saturday, September 25, 2010 is free Museum Day around the country. More than 1300 museums – including a lot of aviation and space museums – will open their doors for free to anyone who shows up with a downloaded coupon from Smithsonian magazine that’s good for admission for two people to any one museum […]

Museum Monday: Oregon’s Tillamook Air Museum

09/20/10

There are more than 700 air and space-related museums in this country. Each Monday, we highlight one of them. Eventually we’ll hit them all. This week: The Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon. The museum has about three dozen aircraft in its collection, but I’ve chosen to highlight it this week because of history of […]

Love the layover: Where to honor Jimi Hendrix

09/18/10

Today, Saturday, September 18th, 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of rock & roll icon Jimi Hendrix, the Seattle-born songwriter and musician Rolling Stone Magazine and many others have crowned the greatest guitarist in rock history. [My original version of this story is on msnbc.com: Museums honor guitar legend Jimi Hendrix] Jimi Hendrix […]

Museum Monday: aerospace museum finds

09/06/10

With the help of Twitter-buddy Isaac Alexander, I spent a good chunk of this Labor Day weekend putting together a list of aerospace museums to keep track of and, perhaps, to feature on Museum Mondays here at StuckatTheAirport.com. The process took quite a bit longer than it might have because I kept clicking on links […]

Free admission this weekend at more than 100 museums

09/02/10

On the first weekend of every month more than 100 museums, zoos and attractions around the country offer free admission to anyone with a Bank of America card as part of the Museums on Us program. Visiting one of the participating venues is a great way to stretch a weekend entertainment budget and a good […]

Museum Monday: Looking for Lindbergh

08/30/10

There are more than 700 aviation and space-related museums in this country. Each Monday we profile one of them. Eventually we’ll hit them all. This week: Looking for Lindbergh Aviator and explorer Charles Lindbergh died on August 26th back in 1974, so it’s as good a time as any to take a look at some […]

Museum Monday: Kansas Aviation Museum

08/23/10

There are close to 700 aviation/space-related museums in the country. Each Monday on StuckatTheAirport.com we profile one of them. Eventually we’ll hit them all. Today: The Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita, Kansas The museum is near the McConnell Air Force Base and is housed in the art deco-style building that served as Wichita’s municipal airport […]

Museum Monday: Elvis’s airplanes at Graceland

08/15/10

There are more than 700 aviation and space museums around the country. Each Monday we profile one of them. Eventually we’ll hit them all. Today, to mark the anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on August 16th, 1977, we’ll make a stop at Graceland, where two of Elvis’s jets are on display. This Lockheed JetStar was […]

Fresh art at Phoenix and Austin airports

08/11/10

Stuck at the airport? Look around. You may find an art exhibit right around the corner. A new exhibit at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport- Fiber Art Unraveled: Material and Process – features work by 19 Arizona artists. Here are a few samples: Nick Georgiou’s Green Reindeer is made from newspapers and discarded books; Clare […]

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