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Snaps from London’s Hunterian Museum

03/13/26

The StuckatTheAirport.com museum review team is in London this week and doing our best to visit as many unusual spots as we can. On touchdown we made a beeline for the the Hunterian Museum, which highlights the extraordinary collection of specimens and other items of 18th century surgeon anatomist John Hunter. The museum reopened in →

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Museum Monday: Places on our wish list

03/09/26

Starting the week off with a list of places we’d like to go. Charlotte, North Carolina We’re planning a visit to the Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) to see all that’s shiny and new there. And to visit the renovated Sullenberger Aviation Museum, on the airport grounds. The Smithsonian Institution affiliate museum houses the Airbus →

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How much does it cost to go to the zoo, the museum or aquarium? It can depend.

06/14/25

Airline-style dynamic pricing has landed at zoos, museums, aquariums and other attractions. So it can be difficult to tell what the ticket price will be on the day you want to pop by. My latest story for NBC News Online looks at some of the pros and cons of static, variable, plan-ahead and dynamic pricing →

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Postcard from Pittsburgh, PA

04/22/25

The Stuck at the Airport team is spending a few days in Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania exploring the airport, of course, but also the museums, restaurants, shops and assorted attractions. A couple of highlights so far: Pittsburgh food tour We joined these adorable kids, their parents and a gaggle of other enthusiastic explorers on a tasting tour →

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More places on our ‘go’ list

04/19/25

National Park Week. Free admission on Saturday Most national parks and monuments offer free entry year-round. But there are popular sites that charge visitors an entry fee. Except, that is, on the handful of days when park fees are waived nationwide. And Saturday, April 19 – the first day of National Park Week (April 19 →

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Three places we’d go

04/03/25

The weekend is coming up and, given all the stressful news, we could use a weekend away. Here are three places on our “We’d go there” list. Fly to Vancouver International Airport for the cherry blossoms Vancouver is always a treat, and landing at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) right about now comes with some bonus →

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Museum Monday: Vancouver BC’s Museum of Anthropology

10/21/24

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 →

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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, →

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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