At first, when I looked up the place in Cleveland I thought it would be a museum on maritime science and weather patterns of the Great Lakes, like the National Museum of the Great Lakes. But I was wrong. It’s just a family-oriented science museum located on the Great Lakes. Read more
Being the richest man in Oshawa, McLaughlin funded many community services, including this gallery. It has one piece of art from each of the Group of Seven, a Norval Morisseau, and many, many contemporary works of art that bring in immigrant perspectives of Canada. Like the Ottawa Art Gallery, many Read more
It’s an aged museum with exhibits that feel like they were handed down from the US. In just the weather gallery alone, distances are measured in miles, videos are from NOAA, and exhibits come from Colorado even though the museum is in Regina. However, it is informative in the sense Read more
Admission is by donation, but I’d rather buy something from the gift shop than give a non tax deductible donation to the museum. Home to the largest T-rex in the world, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina is one of the best natural history museums in the country. My theory Read more
The federal police force from all over the country comes here to train. It was formed as the North-West Mounted Police in 1873 when prime minister John A. Macdonald wanted to settle the west after the Hudson’s Bay Company. The museum located in this Depot Division in Regina is tied Read more
The best way to describe it would be an indoor Main Street from Disneyland in Saskatoon, but you actually get to see educational displays instead of being forced to spend money in gift shops. the fully-furnished interiors are informative, the push-button operated conversations between fictitious characters are educational, and the Read more
It’s a fun place to visit and is open even during public holidays. There are three tours available, the iconic prohibition tour, a Cold War-era bunker tour, and early Chinese immigration. Each tour lasts about an hour and there are discounts for doing multiple tours. I recommend only doing the Read more
If you’ve already bought your ticket from the Mets Cloisters location, you can walk right in and skip the line. This is everything I’ve been looking for in terms of a good mix of Roman mosaics, Greek bronze, European modern art, and seeing my French friends Seurat, Degas, Pissarro, and Read more
The beautiful building on top of the hill is a bit of a hike if you get off the wrong subway stop. I recommend alighting the New York subway’s A train at 190th Street for the elevator to the top. Better to walk a little further horizontally than to suffer Read more
Its like a non-state-operated arts and culture version of the New York State Museum in Albany. This museum charges an admission fee, but shows you what you actually want to see. Instead of talking about boring rocks and ancient plants, there are pods with episodes of New York history such Read more