History on Display
History on Display: Capturing A German Submarine at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if a major attraction is within a five-minute drive* of your home, you will seldom if ever visit it. It is not true that I have never visited Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, which is one of the major landmarks in my neighborhood.** My first two…
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Road Trip Through History, Nuremberg, Pt. 3: Merchant Houses
My Own True Love and I spent three afternoons touring museums in three merchant houses from slightly different periods: the Albrecht Dürer house from the early sixteenth century,(1) the Tucher house from the mid-16h century and the Stadtmuseum in the Fembo house, which dates from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Together they tell…
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Road Trip Through History: The National Brewery Museum
Some museums are the road trip equivalent of a destination wedding: you plan the trip for the purpose of visiting that museum. Some museums are must-sees. (Though I must admit that we’ve missed a few of those on previous Great River Road adventures because of scheduling difficulties. *Sigh*) And others are a fun stop when…
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