(My story about museums welcoming back visitors first appeared on NBC) Ready to leave your house and spend some time in a museum? With all 50 states in some stage of post-pandemic reopening, many museums are back welcoming visitors to art- and history-filled halls. Doing so signals a return to “normal” in many communities — […]
I’m putting finishing touches on a presentation I’ll be making at the Washington Museum Association conference this week about objects museums have that they rarely or never show to the public. One of the treasures I’ll be featuring is Amelia Earhart’s flight jacket. Not the one she was wearing on that last flight, of course, […]
The TSA’s plan to allow passengers to once again carry small knives on board airplanes got nixed a while back. But even if it had gone forward the knife pictured above would never had made the, uh, cut. Made around 1880 as an advertising item for a store window in New York City, the knife’s […]
I recently had the great pleasure of spending a day touring the five first-rate museums that make up the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Formerly the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, the recently expanded center is home to the Cody Firearms Museum, The Plains Indian Museum, The Draper Natural History Museum, the […]
(My story about museums welcoming back visitors first appeared on NBC) Ready to leave your house and spend some time in a museum? With all 50 states in some stage of post-pandemic reopening, many museums are back welcoming visitors to art- and history-filled halls. Doing so signals a return to “normal” in many communities — […]
I’m putting finishing touches on a presentation I’ll be making at the Washington Museum Association conference this week about objects museums have that they rarely or never show to the public. One of the treasures I’ll be featuring is Amelia Earhart’s flight jacket. Not the one she was wearing on that last flight, of course, […]
The TSA’s plan to allow passengers to once again carry small knives on board airplanes got nixed a while back. But even if it had gone forward the knife pictured above would never had made the, uh, cut. Made around 1880 as an advertising item for a store window in New York City, the knife’s […]
I recently had the great pleasure of spending a day touring the five first-rate museums that make up the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Formerly the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, the recently expanded center is home to the Cody Firearms Museum, The Plains Indian Museum, The Draper Natural History Museum, the […]