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Museum Monday: Amelia Earhart’s Goggles

01/31/21

Here’s proof that you never know when you’ll come across something cool in an unexpected place. Case in point: the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. The sprawling museum is not just the largest children’s museum in the world. It is also home to more than 130,000 artifacts, many of them true treasures. One example: these aviator →

Aviation history

Museums are in big trouble

11/17/20

In ‘normal’ times, when we’re not in airports, we’re in museums. And the ongoing pandemic is wreaking havoc with museums. “The financial state of U.S. museums is moving from bad to worse,” said Laura Lott, President and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums. AAM has been surveying its membership since the pandemic began. And →

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Freebies, discounts and surprise perks for voters

10/27/20

Hotels offering perks and packages for Election Day (Our story about Election Day perks first appeared on NBC News in a slightly different version). Election Day, and perhaps the days and weeks following, may be especially tense this year for a myriad of reasons. To help ease the stress and mark the day, some hotels →

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How many museums will actually reopen?

08/16/20

Sharing a (slightly updated) story we wrote for NBC News about the challenge museums are facing when considering reopening – or not – as a result of the pandemic. Museums opening slowly and cautiously. But some may not reopen at all. New York City museums will reopen later this month, with timed entry and other →

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Museum Monday

08/03/20

Yes, this staying at home and social-distancing routine is getting tiresome. But don’t forget that you can still enjoy lots of art and culture online and, in many cities, on foot, and by car. Chess Sets If chess is one of the games you’ve been playing at home, you can learn about the history of →

Museums adjust to post-pandemic visits

05/27/20

(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 — →

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Touring the Toilet Paper Museum

04/14/20

“Krapp,” “DouDou” & toilet paper with Donald Trump’s face on it This is an excerpt from the story we wrote for Fodor’s Travel about a Toilet Paper Museum in the Pacific Northwest. Toilet paper has been in the news quite a bit lately as people search for it, swap for it and, in a pinch, →

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Museum Monday: Where to see the Aerocar

04/13/20

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 →

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Snaps from the Toilet Paper Museum

04/08/20

Everyone is talking about toilet paper these days. We’re counting our rolls. And coming up with strategies to find more. No wonder. Toilet paper is an essential part of daily lives. So we were delighted to be back in touch with Bobj Berger. The model train enthusiast, train manager and seasonal Santa Claus lives in →

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Museum exhibits worth planning a trip around in 2020

12/16/19

Planning your 2020 travel? Some museum-centric ideas If history, art and eclectic adventures are what you seek out when you travel, you’ll have plenty of excuses to pull off the road in 2020. For CNBC we put together a list of great options, from a retrospective celebrating 25 years of outsider art to fresh shrines →

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