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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, […]

Get free museum admission July 4 & all summer

06/30/24

Travel for the Independence Day holiday week is already underway, with AAA projecting that close to 71 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home between this past weekend and next. Whether or not you plan to hit the road, we hope visiting a museum is part of the agenda. Here are some […]

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Postcard from Paris: a museum most tourists miss

03/27/24

The Stuck at the Airport team is in Paris this week. Lucky us, right? First stop: the Eiffel Tower, of course. But only because it was on the way to a great museum: The Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, which does a wonderful job of displaying, promoting, and explaining the indigenous arts and culture of […]

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Museum Monday: The Pencil Sharpener Museum

01/28/24

The Pencil Sharpener Museum in Logan, Ohio is open again, and the 5,000 sharpeners in the collection are now housed in a new building at the Hocking Hills Regional Welcome Center. This is the world’s only Pencil Sharpener Museum and it includes 4000 pencil sharpeners collected by the late Rev. Paul Johnson, plus a new […]

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New SFO Museum exhibit features Chinese ceramics

01/22/24

If you’re heading to or through San Francisco International Airport (SFO) anytime soon, be sure to look for some of the permanent and temporary exhibits offered throughout the terminals by the SFO Museum. One of the newest, titled Everyday Elegance in Chinese Ceramics, features an assortment of functional wares from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries […]

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Snaps from the National Neon Sign Museum

11/29/23

On a recent road trip through Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, the Stuck at the Airport museum reporter came upon the National Neon Sign Museum in the charming town of The Dalles, Oregon. Unfortunately, the museum was closed the day were were in town. Fortunately, museum director David Benko answered the phone when we called and […]

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Museum Monday at LAX and SFO airports

07/23/23

Say “Hi, Barbie!” at Flight Path Museum at LAX A visit to the Flight Path Museum and Learning Center at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is an avgeek delight anytime. Located on LAX property, a short drive or taxi ride from the terminals, the museum includes one of the largest airline uniform collections, as well […]

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Museum Monday: Posters for Boeing’s canceled supersonic transport (SST) aircraft

07/03/23

They are easy to miss as you cross the pedestrian bridge connecting the main campus of Seattle’s sprawling Museum of Flight to the museum’s Space Gallery and Aviation Pavilion across the street. But as part of the delightful Art+Flight exhibit currently underway at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, there is a display of charming motivational posters […]

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The Days of Drag Racing at John Wayne Airport

06/21/23

In the 1950s, when ‘hot rods’ were all the rage in Southern California, and John Wayne Airport (SNA) was officially called the Orange County Airport, sanctioned drag racing took place on one of the airport runways. According to the Lyon Air Museum, an aviation and automobile museum on the west side of the airport, in […]

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