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Museum Tourist: Museu de la Xocolata
Today was International Museum Day. I tried to go to about 7 museums, all but one of which was either completely closed for renovation, mostly closed for renovation, or nonexistent. The Chocolate Museum was the one exception in my day … Continue reading
Museum Tourist: Museu d’Història de la Ciutat de Barcelona
Barcelona’s City History Museum is in a former royal palace. There’s a pretty chapel and a big fancy gothic room, which is fine if that’s what you’re into. Oh! I just read in the guidebook that the room is where … Continue reading
museum tourist: Hirshhorn
I must admit, I haven’t been inside the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in years. It’s not that I don’t like it. But modern art isn’t my top priority, and if I’ve gotten that far, I’m just more likely to go to … Continue reading
museum tourist: university of michigan museum of natural history
You know how I love a university natural history museum. It was Harvard‘s that started this whole Museum Tourist venture, and I’ve also reported on Yale and the University of Kansas, and oh gosh, someday I will get to the … Continue reading
museum tourist: henry ford museum
Several years ago on a visit to Michigan, I went to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, a collection of houses and other buildings from around the country. Like the Wright Brothers’ workshop, the house where H.J. Heinz started making and bottling … Continue reading
shuttle flyover
Like many other people in the D.C. area, today I got to see the space shuttle Discovery do its flyover before it goes to its new home, at the National Air & Space Museum. I met up with a friend … Continue reading
spring approaches
In a few weeks, the trees around the Tidal Basin will burst into flower. The prediction came out yesterday: the peak should be somewhere in the range of March 24-31. (Keep up with progress on the National Park Service’s cherry … Continue reading
bug on my window
In the ongoing series “Bug on my Window,” I present: a bug on my window. Some kind of fly, maybe? I don’t know my bugs well enough. There were three of them wandering around at sunset. Ok, this isn’t a … Continue reading
there’s bricks under there!
The East Building of the National Gallery of Art is covered in scaffolding these days. This fabulous angular building was built, as the National Gallery’s press release puts it, “according to the highest standards of the late 1970s.” A few … Continue reading
museum tourist: California Science Center
I was in Southern California in October for a wedding – something that seems to happen every six months or so – and took advantage of a friend of a friend who works at the California Science Center to get … Continue reading