National Museum of Play, Rochester, NY
Yes, that's a real diner, inside the museum lobby. A perfect start and finish for the museum that also includes play areas, areas to learn about play, and a toy store. Read on...
Yes, that's a real diner, inside the museum lobby. A perfect start and finish for the museum that also includes play areas, areas to learn about play, and a toy store. Read on...
Carousels always attract my attention—I still want to grab the brass ring, I suppose—and France seems to have more of them than anywhere else I've been. Some are more memorable than others, and this one in Dijon sticks in my mind because...
Singapore will open its new National Museum to the public on Tuesday, after three years of construction that have turned its 1937 Supreme Court and 1929 City Hall into Asia's largest visual arts institution, with a collection of over 8,000 works of...
It's been estimated that a huge percentage of the pictures on the internet are of cute cats. Now an art auction is about to offer a picture of cute cats that is huge (the painting, not the cats.)
Samantha shares her appreciation of the magnificent Palais Garnier, home of the Paris Opera.
As a number of Gumbo readers figured out, Gumbo's latest "Where Was" was Frankfurt am Main, Germany's economic capital and home, as the giant Euro sign reminded us, to the European Central Bank. Those who get the credit, in order: Jonathan L,...
A Saturday trip to the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx to see a Frida Kahlo exhibit took on a different cast when we realized that the Garden was also celebrating Halloween and the Dia de los Muertos. When we arrived, a variety of...
Hallway in Vatican Apostolic Library during #emptyVatican, captured by Livia Hengel Half the museums and public spaces in the world, it seems, ban picture-taking...and the other half are too filled with visitors to make the pictures worthwhile....
Once again, as has happened several times in recent years, diligent cleaning crews at an art gallery have cleared up what seemed to them obvious trash, and to the curators valuable art. The most recent incident happened last weekend at the...
Lying down on the job? Or is he just staring at TravelGumbo, who's visiting this well-known city... Out of the park and into the street. After a visit last week to Dublin, Gumbo's headed off to...somewhere. Where? That's for the Puzzler...
A raft of new buildings, including efforts by A-list architects such as Norman Foster and Frank Gehry will soon be going up around London's Battersea Power Station, seen below. After years of plans that have fallen through, this one appears to be...
Weeping Window is part of a UK-wide tour of the iconic poppies sculpture organised by 14-18 NOW. The installation is at Woodhorn Mining Museum from 12th September to 1st November 2015. Weeping Window...
Oaxaca de Juarez is a beautiful city, no question, but what impressed me most were the people I met, Mexican and expat, in all walks of life. I’ve never visited a place where the warmth and kindness of the residents stood out as it...
Welcome to Cadillac Ranch. It is a famous art sculpture in Amarillo, Texas which consists of what were either older running used or junk Cadillac automobiles from 1949 to 1963, half-buried nose-first in the ground, at an angle corresponding to...
Berlin's Neptune Fountain sits near popular Alexanderplatz in the former communist side of the city, between the old Red City Hall and Marian's church. The fountain was built in 1891 and features Neptune at its center, the four...