Tag Archives: travel
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: Casa Batlló
I’m in Barcelona for a few weeks, seeing the sights, doing some work, and eating some tapas. When you tell people you’re going to Barcelona, they mostly say, “ooh, Gaudí!” I only barely knew who Gaudí was, but now, having … 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: Grand Canyon visitor center
Last Monday I went for a day hike at the Grand Canyon and stopped by the visitor center on the South Rim. And I thought, hey, this is totally a museum! Sweet! Ok, it is quite a thin museum. There … Continue reading
museum tourist: Dulles
See? SFO isn’t the only airport with exhibits. This hallway in the C Terminal at Washington-Dulles used to have pictures of planets, but now it’s photos of D.C. Kind of nice photos. If you want to see them, buy yourself … Continue reading
museum tourist: SFO museum
A museum…in an airport? What? That’s crazy! Ok, actually, it’s not crazy. There’s a little Air & Space Museum photo exhibit at Dulles that I’ve seen twice and never blogged about. But the San Francisco airport really goes all out. … Continue reading
museum tourist: Miraflores Locks, model edition
The visitors’ center at the Miraflores Locks, as previously mentioned, is full of models of ships and various kinds of train equipment. Both historic models, from the early days of the canal 100 years ago, and modern models. I love … Continue reading
museum tourist: Miraflores Visitor Center
Starting at the Pacific, ships in the Panama Canal go into the Miraflores locks, then the Pedro Miguel locks. That gets them up to the level of most of the canal. On the Caribbean side, they go down through the … Continue reading
museum tourist: Museo del Canal Interoceánico de Panamá
Here’s a weird fact. The “Panama Canal Museum” is in Seminole, Florida, and it’s just about the U.S. involvement in the canal. The museum in Panama City is the “Museo del Canal Interoceánico de Panamá.” That is something along the … Continue reading