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: Evolution of an Art Form in Seattle

(Du Gu, Zao Dao, 2014, character design for “Le Vent traversant les pin”)

This week Seattle’s MoPop Museum opens Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form, an exhibition that features over 400 works from Japan, China, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Afghanistan, and Vietnam and explores the diversity and creativity of Asian comic art and its powerful impact on global pop culture.

In San Diego: the Spooniverse at Mingei International Museum 

(Photo courtesy of Erica Moody)

Across the Spooniverse opens April 12 and runs through August 17 at San Diego’s charming Mingei International Museum with over 100 spoons from across the globe.

Yes, spoons.

“Some are adorned with exquisite carvings of human and animal figures, and others are brilliant for their simplicity of form,” the exhibit notes tell us. “Some show decades or even centuries of wear and use, and others are pristine. As objects of use, spoons are universally understood.”

(Photo courtesy of Ron Kerner)

250th anniversary of the American Revolution at the Concord Museum

 

The 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution is coming up and in Concord, Massachusetts, the Concord Museum is ready to rumble.

The museum has the best collection of items related to April 19, 1775 – the day “the shot heard round the world” kicked off the American Revolution – including the original lantern used as a signal on the night of Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride.

And for the 250th, more than 200 Revolutionary War-era muskets, powder horns, flints, supplies and other objects will be on display across five galleries.