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Video Arts Screening Gallery Open at SFO

12/05/21

After a 20-month hiatus, the video arts screening room at SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is open. The gallery screens short-form documentaries, experimental films, and all forms of animation. It is located pre-security on the departures level of the International Terminal. Hours: daily, 5:00am to 10:00pm. With a nod to COVID-19, this →

Movies

Airports deal with fire, a water main break, and the return of the dogs

10/18/21

It was quite a Monday for some airports around the country. The day started out like this at Denver International Airport Wag Brigade back at SFO San Francisco International Airport (SFO) announced that the SFO Wag Brigade, a team of certified stress-relief animals, is back on duty in the terminals after a 20-month absence due →

Animals

Victorian Wallpaper at SFO

10/12/21

Is SFO an airport or a museum? Now that we’re back to traveling more, we’re delighted to have the opportunity to visit San Francisco International Airport (SFO), home to the SFO Museum, which is fully accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. SFO is both an airport AND a museum. So, we always make sure →

Airport Tidbits from Here and There

10/04/21

Facebook and Instagram may have been down on Monday, but Twitter was there for airports to share news and fun tidbits. Here are some items that caught our attention. Not vaccinated yet? Please get with the program so you can travel safely. Many airports around the country make it easy to get the jab. Airports →

Air Travel

Museum Monday: Scientific Instruments at SFO

09/13/21

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 →

Museum Monday: Math at the SFO Museum

08/02/21

The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has kicked off yet another exhibition that might make you miss your next flight. This one is all about mathematics. Mathematics: Vintage and Modern displays slide rules, early calculating machines, and other math-related objects from the past. Included are teaching tools that help students learn arithmetic, geometry, →

Airports celebrate July 4th and the freedom to travel

07/03/21

Like you, airports are celebrating the freedom to travel (again) and also marking July 4th. And we’re gathering up some of the best July 4th messages airports are sharing. Kicking us off: the patriotic water feature show in Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport. Also: a cool mural you can watch being made at Leonardo da →

Holidays

Stuck at The Airport: Tuesday Tidbits

05/31/21

Still not vaccinated? MIA Airport can help A COVID-19 vaccination site at Miami International Airport will be providing free one-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines to all individuals 18 and older daily through June 18, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., except for June 8-9. Walk-ups are accepted with no appointment or pre-registration necessary. The vaccination →

Travel news from airports here and there

03/29/21

Tuesday already? Stuck at the Airport is still doing some catch-up up on news, snaps, and travel tidbits airports shared on Monday. Like the pink cherry blossom lighting at Reagan National Airport (DCA). The links to short films courtesy of the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The Women’s History Month factoid about →

Airports

SFO Museum presents Early American Motorcycles

02/16/21

If we can’t fly anywhere right now, how about a ride on a motorcycle? A new exhibition by the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) explores the history of motorcycling from the 1890s to 1915. On display are fourteen motorcycles that were made prior to 1916, rare engines, and photographs from the pioneering →

Museums

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