Greetings from New Zealand. When the Stuck at the Airport team isn’t hanging out in an airport, it can usually be found in a museum. And this week, while traveling through Australia and New Zealand on Holland America’s Westerdam cruise ship, we’ve been delighted to stop in towns with truly wonderful museums. One of our […]
It’s been a while since we had a chance to visit the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus. The whole museum was closed for more than a year while seismic upgrades were made to the spectacular Great Hall, which has 50-foot-tall glass walls and displays of Northwest Coast poles, house […]
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 […]
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 […]
If we’re not in an airport, you’ll find the Stuck at the Airport team in a museum. And if it’s a museum with some unusual collections, all the better. The Lightner Museum in St. Augustine, Florida fits the bill. And how. First built as the Hotel Alcazar in 1888, the building opened as the Lightner […]
Greetings from New Zealand. When the Stuck at the Airport team isn’t hanging out in an airport, it can usually be found in a museum. And this week, while traveling through Australia and New Zealand on Holland America’s Westerdam cruise ship, we’ve been delighted to stop in towns with truly wonderful museums. One of our […]
It’s been a while since we had a chance to visit the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus. The whole museum was closed for more than a year while seismic upgrades were made to the spectacular Great Hall, which has 50-foot-tall glass walls and displays of Northwest Coast poles, house […]
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 […]
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 […]
If we’re not in an airport, you’ll find the Stuck at the Airport team in a museum. And if it’s a museum with some unusual collections, all the better. The Lightner Museum in St. Augustine, Florida fits the bill. And how. First built as the Hotel Alcazar in 1888, the building opened as the Lightner […]
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia will be celebrating its 100th-anniversary April 28 through October 31, 2022, with an exhibit highlighting dozens of recently acquired Poe artifacts. The list of artifacts includes Edgar Allen Poe’s pocket watch, which he owned while writing The Tell-Tale Heart, a horror story that, repeatedly mentions a watch. […]
SFO Museum exhibits rare 19th to early 20th-century scientific instruments The newest exhibition from the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is filled with rare mid-nineteenth century to early twentieth-century scientific instruments. At a glance, they are clearly works of mechanical know-how and art. But these objects also tell a story about the […]
We enter the new week still grounded by COVID-19, but dreaming of places we might soon be able to go. And the fun ways we might get there. In the meantime, we put together a round-up of some aviation museum highlights to visit, virtually, for The Points Guy blog. On the list, we were pleased […]
