Tagged With "interactive exhibits"
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Artful exhibits lined up for Italy's museums
Four outstanding exhibitions that highlight the fall art season in Italy, along with many others.
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Sept. 22, 2017: Flowers at the Petit Palais, Paris
After viewing an exhibition at the Beaux Arts era Petit Palais, PHeymont enjoyed a visit to its flower beds as well.
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Dubai Museum (Where Gumbo Was #219)
Gumbo was visiting the Dubai Museum in the United Arab Emirates. The Museum is housed in an old 18th century fort, the oldest building in the city, and contains a large variety of exhibits which document the history of the region.
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American Writers Museum opens in Chicago
A new museum highlights the work of American authors over a 5-century span.
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Visit to USS Arizona Memorial Brought up Many Emotions
Samantha finds a visit to the memorial at Pearl Harbor both fascinating and emotional.
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Pompeii: Ancient Ruins, Modern Images
The works of a modern French-Polish sculptor provide both a contrast and a complement to the ancient ruins of Pompeii.
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Big Chihuly exhibit comes to NY Botanical Garden
Artist Dale Chihuly's work will be highlighted at a 6-month New York exhibition featuring a number of new works.
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Certosa e Museo di San Martino, Naples
A hilltop monastery dating to the 14th century is a stunning museum of history and especially of the art of the baroque era.
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Red Squirrels
Ian Cook shares some great photos and a detailed natural history of the charming Red squirrel, whose population is declining.
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Galveston Aquarium welcomes warm-weather penguins
Warm(er)-weather penguins take up a new home at Galveston, Texas's Moody Gardens Aquarium.
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Montreal takes a new look at Expo 67
Montreal takes a searching look back at its 50-year-ago World’s Fair, Expo 67
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Empire State Building - The Experience
Samantha shares her Empire State Building experience with us, including some great views of the building as well as from it!
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Indoor Farmers Market at Hyatt Regency, Waikiki
Samantha features a highlight of her hotel stay: its extensive twice-a-week indoor farmers market featuring Hawaiian produce.
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Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco (Where Gumbo Was #227)
Gumbo was visiting the beautiful The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco. The museum houses a magnificent collection of art the details of which inspired many of the clues in this week's travel puzzle.
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Boeing Everett: Where they build the big ones
At Boeing Everett, they're building the 747, 767, 777 and 787—all in one huge building that makes the word 'immense' seem too small.
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Robots from Around the World at Chicago Museum
A popular exhibit, enhanced with new players, offers museum visitors a chance to work, play and invent with robots.
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In the Cotswolds: Upton House
PortMoresby continues her English adventures with a stop at Upton House, in Warwickshire, on the way to the Cotswolds.
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Rome's Zoo exhibits the history of poo
At Biopark, children and adults learn about excrement's important role in the cycle of life, agriculture and more.
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Germany's most unusual museums await you
Germany has famous museums—but it also has some fascinating ones hardly anyone knows. Above, an exhibit at the Schweine Museum in Stuttgart.
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Can Sweden's 'Museum of Failure' succeed?
Helsingborg is soon to open a unique museum, dedicated to the valiant tries that fell by the wayside of innovation.
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Top five reasons to visit Baltimore, Maryland.
Why should you visit Baltimore? Stephanie outlines the top things to see and do in this charming city.
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VanDuzen Botanical Garden, Vancouver
A visit to an unusual botanical garden, and thoughts on why it's hard for PHeymont to write about it.
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Seattle's Museum of History and Industry
A fascinating walk through the things and industries that made Seattle what it is, in an area that no longer is what it was.
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Rarer than an eclipse: Münster's day in the sun
Münster's big outdoor sculpture exhibit happens only once a decade.
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Chicago's 'hidden city' becoming a tourism attraction
Unknown even to most Chicagoans, the city has been developing an underground pathway for 60 years. Now it's coming to light.
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Treasures of NYC's MOMA to visit Paris
A selection of treasures from New York's Museum of Modern Art will visit Paris's Fondation Louis Vuitton for a months-long exhibition.
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Oct. 21, 2017: Chihuly's 'Neon 2006'
These photos were taken during a night visit to an exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx of work by glass artist Dale Chihuly.
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China's Forbidden City forbids paper tickets
China's imperial Palace Museum is going to online-only ticketing to avoid long lines and disappointment when all 80,000 daily tickets are gone
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Munch Museum adds Oslo Airport exhibit
Oslo's new international terminal will include a rotating selection of works by Edvard Munch and others.
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Nov. 13, 2017: Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
If you like the water lily paintings of Claude Monet, then you need to visit this museum in Paris and see what some say is his finest work.
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Finding Nature in England: New Forest National Park
Kirsten Hines' series on exploring Nature in England concludes, with a stop at a National Park that requires her to rethink what "national park" actually means in this long settled and farmed landscape.
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Prague's Jewish Quarter: An Emotional and Educational Journey
Join Marilyn Jones in her exploration of one of Europe's most important Jewish history sites, and one of Prague's most-visited areas.
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Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota (Where Gumbo Was #231)
Gumbo was visiting the plane exhibit outside the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. An impressive assortment of military hardware can be viewed (for free), a treat for anyone interested in the history of flight.
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Top 8 mobile apps for scanning purposes
Mobile apps find their contributing use in several domains like payment, entertainment, health, virtual assistants etc. They also find good use as scanners over the desktop counterparts which dont offer mobility Mobile Scanner Apps Mobile scanner apps find their use in scanning any documents and also can assimilate text from the scans. The standard of these apps are close to its desktop counterparts. Several apps related to this are present in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
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The Museum of Chinese in America
Jonathan L visits the Museum of Chinese in America, which explores the long history of immigration to this country
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Luray Valley Museum, Virginia
George G takes us on a tour of the museum that was the site for last week's Where In The World puzzle.
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The New Museum presents Contemporary Art
Jonathan L takes us to a wonderful museum of contemporary art, The New Museum in New York City.
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Flushing Meadows Park and the Museums of Queens
Join Jonathan L on a visit to a great park and two interesting museums in one of New York City's 'outer boroughs'
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Surprising Destination: Batumi, Georgia
LestertheInvestor visits a Black Sea resort city popular with Russians and filled with unusual art and buildings.
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J.M.W. Turner goes Nashville
Nashville will host not only country music this spring, but the only U.S. visit by a new exhibition of works by the British romantic painter.
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Tacoma: Making your own Christmas ornaments
Join Kai Rambow on a visit to a colorful workshop where participants make their own glass Christmas tree ornaments.
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Pretty in Pink: Makeup Museum to open
A new museum in New York City will highlight the 10,000-year history of cosmetics and their effect on society.
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Nashville's African-American Music Museum coming
The long-awaited National Museum of African-American Music will open September 3; tickets are already on sale.
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Books, Posters and Magic
Jonathan L takes us on a tour of some small galleries in midtown New York.
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NYC Transit Museum: An urban railfan's heaven
Housed in an old subway station in Downtown Brooklyn, the Transit Museum tells as much about the city's history as it does about trains.
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Heard Museum: American Indian Art and Artifacts
Samantha shares her educational visit to the Heard Museum in Phoenix, AZ. There is so much to see and learn.
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Yayoi Kusama at New York Botanical Garden
The Garden is hosting a six-month show of works, many of them new, by the iconic artist.
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FIT Museum: The History of Fashion
Jonathan L explores the history of fashion at the Museum at FIT
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British Museum shows world's oldest guidebook
An exhibit on the influence of the Islamic world also includes the world's oldest guidebook, a 1486 work by German traveler and a Dutch artist
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Glasgow's Unlikely People's Palace
Built as an oasis of culture in a sea of slums, one of Glasgow's important museums is still fighting for its life in an era of budget cuts.