Museums

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...

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...

  Memories of a youth not as mis-spent as I might wish flooded back in this darkened pinball arcade, with flashing lights, dinging bells and other sounds drawing me in...but sadly, not to a disreputable place that spells Trouble with a T: No,...

Gumbo’s location in Puzzle #140, as Travelling Canuck and GarryRF recognized, was the puzzling city of Rochester, New York—a city that has re-invented itself so many times that its nicknames tangle the tongue. It’s been the Young...

Qatar will soon open a quartet of new museums as part of a big downtown development, and one of them will take on a contentious subject—slavery—which has a long and little-discussed history in the Arabian Peninsula.   The museum's...

When it comes to the great Chicago Fire of 1871, seen in a diorama above, the Chicago History Museum knows all about it: The museum, founded in 1856, was destroyed in the fire and had to start again from scratch—only to burn again in 1874....

A Coke and a Smile was playing constantly through my mind while exploring the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a wonderful place to escape on a hot day. The unlimited drinks at the Taste It Sampling Bar also helped. My husband...

For the first time since the middle of Queen Victoria's reign, a non-Briton has been tapped as director of the British Museum. He's Hartwig Fischer, director the Dresden's City Art Collections. Ironically, the man he will replace is moving to Berlin...

PHeymont shares the tangled tales of one of Jamaica's great plantation houses, with tragedies, mysteries and even a song by Johnny Cash.

With a long history of spy-versus-spy in the Cold War, and all sorts of espionage intrigue both before and since, it seems only fitting that Berlin should have a museum of espionage, and now it does, with the opening of Spy Museum Berlin tomorrow....

  Pumas, also known as mountain lions or cougars, are top level predators with a wide range, from Patagonia in South America to Alaska in the north (although they have been eliminated from the eastern USA).  They thrive in forests, swamps...

  Throughout the years I have noticed that many of my favorite recording artists have performed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, which is located in Red Rocks Park (part of the Denver Mountain Parks system) near Morrison, Colorado, 15 miles west of...