Mystic Seaport: A Whale of a Museum
During COVID I didn’t have the chance to travel much, but when I did, I looked for outdoor experiences that felt much safer than indoor gatherings. Visiting Mystic Seaport Museum […]
Category Archives: Museums & Tours
The Hall of Heroes
Why Do People Love Superheroes? Is it because they show us how a single person has the capacity to make the world a better place if he puts his powers […]
Tallinn’s Communism Tour
“Are you here for the Communism Tour?” Our young guide stepped forward and introduced himself as Marko. I stepped forward and checked us in. “What drew you to take this […]
The Secret Language of Fans – Inside Rundale Palace
Rundale Manor – The Baltic Versailles Try to imagine living in a time when you’d arrive by horse & carriage to this magnificent palace. You’re there to see the Duke […]
The Devil Made Me Do It!
When a sneaky little voice whispered in my ear to drive to Kaunas, Lithuania to see the Devil Museum, I obeyed. How could I not? The museum contains more than […]
Manneken Pis – GardeRobe Museum
A Manneken Pis Museum -The GardeRobe If you’ve ever been to Brussels, you’ve probably gone to see Manneken Pis. This iconic statue of a peeing boy is symbolic of Brussels […]
Cincinnati’s Holocaust Museum
The Holocaust & Humanity Center Museum Many Holocaust museums are centered on the victims killed during this horrendous period in history, but the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Cincinnati’s Union Terminal […]
The Mines of Butte
Butte’s Mining History As I plowed down the highway toward Butte, I turned through a cut in the hill and suddenly, before me was an excavation pit; a landscape that […]
Talk at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Ponder this: a roomful of people have congregated to discuss the issue of slavery and whether the slaveholders in the southern states of the U.S. were civil and humane. Some […]
The Tri-State Warbird Museum
Just like the times I visited Dayton’s National Air Force Museum with my son, I knew I wanted to tour Cincinnati’s Tri-State Warbird Museum with him, too. I wanted to see […]
