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Museum Monday: LAX Flight Path Learning Center and Museum

07/05/10

There are close to 700 aviation & space museums around the county and in my recent msnbc.com column Aviation and Space Museums that Soar, I only had room to list six of them. The best of the rest we’ll get to know here, during Museum Mondays on StuckatTheAirport.com. Last week, it was the New England […]

Museum Monday: New England Air Museum

06/28/10

I’ve been getting a lot of guff from aviation museum fans upset that I didn’t include their favorite museum in my recent msnbc.com column – Aviation and space museums that soar. I was asking for it. There are close to 600 aviation and space museums in the country. And with room in the column for […]

Aviation and space museums on the must-see list

06/25/10

(Hanging planes at Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, AZ) I am an idiot. At least that’s what some fans of Dayton, Ohio’s United States Air Force Museum and many other aviation museums were calling me today. They read my msnbc.com column – Aviation and space museums that soar – and were pissed that their […]

Do shrunken heads snore? Sleepovers at museums & attractions

06/23/10

If you’re curious about what happens in museums, zoos, aquariums and offbeat attractions after hours you’re in luck. For a slide show on Bing Travel – Critter Campouts – I found plenty of places where you can camp with critters, sleep with fishes and dream with dinosaurs. (Courtesy Georgia Aquarium) Since then, I’ve found even […]

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport upgrades departure gate experience

06/09/10

I’m a big fan of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The amenities there – from the play areas and the first-class art collection to the plentiful lounge chairs, the casino and floating branch of the Rijksmuseum – make long layovers more of an adventure than a chore. Now they’ve turned their attention to the departure gate experience […]

Cheap and Offbeat Amsterdam

05/21/10

On Monday, ash from the Icelandic volcano caused the cancellation of a lot of flights and left a lot of people stuck at the airport. Again. I was one of those people. I’d booked a one-day return trip from Amsterdam to Liverpool just to tour the John Lennon Airport, where the slogan is “Above us […]

Love the layover: Museum of Bags and Purses

05/15/10

There are a lot of things to love about Amsterdam, including the canals, The Van Gogh Museum, The Rijksmuseum, the cheese, the bicycles and the chocolate. On my most recent visit, I discovered one more: The Museum of Bags and Purses Hendrikje. The 4000 piece collection includes pouches, pockets, purses, suitcases and accessories dating back […]

Tidbits for travelers: art & massages at Schiphol, more music in Austin

03/18/10

Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has more than 100 shops, an equal number of cafes, pubs and restaurants, casinos, a Yotel, a great art collection and a branch of the Rijksmuseum that’s currently showing the Sunny Skies exhibition, featuring nine works by Dutch 17th century landscape artists inspired by the Italian landscape. Speaking of inspiration, Schiphol’s Cone […]

Plan your weekend now: Obscura Day is March 20th

03/15/10

Now here’s an event to start planning your weekend around right now. Saturday, March 20th, 2010 is Obscura Day: a day of expeditions, back-room tours and hidden treasures in your hometown. Like what? Well, how about Leila’s Cohoon’s Hair Museum in Independence, Missouri? A family emergency kept me from visiting in person a few years […]

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