National Gallery of Art

Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh, Gauguin Da Vinci, Medici, the National Gallery of Art is to Washington, D.C. What the Louvre is to Paris. Except it’s free and there isn’t a massive line to get in. It’s a democratically operated institution, unlike the capitalist enterprise from the so-called French Read more

National Archives

There are four originals of the 1297 Magna Carta, one of them is in Washington, D.C.‘s National Archives. Entry is free but photography is prohibited. The modest downstairs gallery tells the troubled national history of how slaves built the Capitol and the White House, broken promises, the long-time disenfranchisement of Read more

Manitoba Museum

History. Nature. Science. These three words are the calling card for Winnipeg‘s Manitoba Museum. It is the province’s most comprehensive museum with multiple galleries on everything from dinosaurs to how Manitobans lived during the roaring 20s. I particularly liked the Arctic and subarctic gallery, as I did in Ottawa‘s Museum Read more