It’s not usually open to the public, but the once-a-year Doors Open Toronto event invites everyone to take a peek inside a collection of heritage buildings and city infrastructure. Open Doors Toronto this year was one of the last times the public will ever get a glimpse into the inner Read more
Its not just a place for kids, it’s a place for teens and adults and babies, too. Best of all, the parking is free. It has everything from the cells in your veins to the stars in the sky. It even has a history section on the first floor. I Read more
It’s free. I don’t care if you’re not interested in history. It’s free, so you should go. It’s next to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery so it’s not even out of the way. Go. The upstairs gallery does a great job putting American history in context of Buffalo. From wooly mammoths Read more
The University of Michigan’s main campus is in Ann Arbor, about an hour west of Detroit. Its fist buildings were built in Gothic revival style. It was founded in 1817, but classes didn’t begin 1841 because it wasn’t established as a modern university but more like a network of lecture Read more
I had my preconceived notions of what a corporate branded museum would look like, but I was only partially right. I thought there would be a gallery on the company’s products and a PR video on the innovations it gave to the glass industry. Turns out, it’s part glass history Read more
You can buy a combined admission ticket to both the Corning Museum of Glass and the Rockwell Museum for a discount price. The secret is to go to Rockwell first, get the combined ticket, before going across the river to Corning to avoid a timed ticket. This way, you can Read more
Syracuse is the place to go to visit a museum on the canals and commercial shipping lanes of the Great Lakes, but go to Toledo‘s National Museum of the Great Lakes for additional learning about the culture and histories around the Great Lakes. Circumnavigating the eastern lakes should really be Read more
The Great Lakes Science Center was disappointingly small, so I took the extra time to do a bonus round at the neighboring Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. I’m not big on music, but I do have the Rolling Stones and The Beatles CDs in my car – Read more
Parking costs $12 a pop but the museum itself is free. The giant atrium in the centre of the building reminds me of the British Museum. It probably looks exactly like it was proposed in concept sketches. The Art Lens exhibit is the first time I’ve seen an art museum Read more
The Michigan History Center is free on Sundays in Lansing, Michigan’s state capital. I don’t think the downstairs gallery on prehistoric Michigan and nature is worth too much time. After all, Michigan is known to be an industrial state at the heart of America, so modern history on its manufacturing Read more