By Max Hartshorne We visited the D-Day beaches, the Caen Memorial Museum, the villages of Arromanches and St. Mere D’ Eglise, the nearly destroyed city of Le Havre and pillboxes embedded over the beaches at Longue-sur-mer. It left us in awe of the size and scope of the battles, and impressed with how much of…
Ginger Warder takes us through the highlights of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond one of best museums in the state.
Visiting the Ramones museum in Berlin Germany where Florian Hayler a local Ramones fanatic has complied an impressive array of artifacts from the band.
The Magnificent Museums of London By Fj Napoleone I had no idea many of London’s museums have free admission. Well almost free: since I’m somewhat gainfully employed, it was hard to walk by the “pay-what-can” box without donating a couple pounds. I even dropped a Canadian toonie into one. And it’s not just small and…
I Saw a Ship a-Whaling New Bedford Whaling Museum offers an impressive collection looking back through history By Jamie Kimmel After heading to New Bedford for the weekend I had so much fun at the New Bedford Whaling Museum I spun off the experience into its own article. This is a truly impressive place to…
Saskatchewan’s Western Development Museum, a profile of a place where the past comes alive in Saskatoon.
The Karen Blixen museum outside of Copenhagen memorializes the author of Out of Africa and a fascinating figure in history.
Druskininkai, Lithuania Grūtas Park: A Museum of Soviet Sculpture photos by Stephen Hartshorne.
Stephen Hartshorne presents a gallery of photos from the Museum of the Centre of Europe in Vilnius, Lithuania, many of them statues of former Soviet leaders.
House Museums: Visiting Places Where Artists, Writers, and Royalty once lived By Nicole W. Sobel House Museums are an eccentric and artistic way of demonstrating what Italy has to offer the traveler. They are rich in history and are representative of some of Italy’s greatest writers, artists, and royalty. They are a must-see site for…
A French tourism, Voyageurs du Monde, company has bought a house in Johannesburg where Mahatma Gandhi lived for three years. Voyageurs du Monde paid almost twice the asking price of $377,029 for the house. The company plans to turn the property into a Gandhi museum, “in line with its philosophy of investing in heritae properties worldwide.”…
Smithsonian magazine is sponsoring a day of free admission to hundred of museums and cultural centers, Saturday September 26. Visitors can get in free at museums such as New York City’s South Street Seaport Museum, Virginia Museum of Natural History, and the California State Railroad Museum. Admission to these places are usually 9 or 10…
