This is the natural habitat of the San Francisco liberal arts student. The blue-haired, orange leggings, faux leather jacket-wearing, dark eyeliner-painting, frilly choker-donning type. Also, the latte-drinking, Lululemon bag-slinging, Apple watch-wearing, crop topping type. “My roommate did a thesis on chairs, but then she switched to cups,” one young lady Read more
The building doesn’t have much in it, just a few models of old shops with displays telling visitors about the role of each type of ship in history. San Francisco sees heavy maritime traffic from trade, tourism and military vessels alike. Entry to the building is free but you’ll have Read more
Admission is free. This is where the cables are pulled with an independent system for each of the three lines. The one currently in use was built in 1984. Cables can stretch about 30 meters over its serviceable life and tensioner keep it taught so there’s no slack. Damage is Read more
Art is a powerful medium when paired with education on interracial interactions in America. The misrepresentations of black people through centuries of slavery and oppression, the assumed nonresistance of black women, and the lack of recognition for black contributions to the world. There aren’t a lot of exhibits I want Read more
Not the French award for contributions to the state, but an art museum in San Francisco perched on top of a hill facing the Pacific Ocean on two sides. It’s a classic art museum with masterpieces like Fruit and Game by Jan Fyt and pieces by Anthony van Dyck. Even Read more
The ticking counter person taught me to exchange my Legion of Honor ticket for a de Young Museum ticket so I could visit both museums for free on a free day. I only skimmed the ground floor because I’m not that interested in contemporary art and abstract representation. I stopped Read more
I visited the same year Canada remembered the 100th anniversary of its Chinese exclusion act. The gold rush, for mostly worse, lured tens of thousands of Chinese workers in the 19th century under false promises of wealth. By the 1880s, more than half of all Chinese women in California worked, Read more
Federal land as a national park. Technically not part of California so you can’t smoke recreational Marijuana here. I recommend the first ferry as it gets you there just as the prison opens. The main exhibit is on the evolution of the US correctional system, like at Eastern State Penitentiary Read more
Canada’s capital Ottawa has a bunch of nice museums, but the one I least expected to see was the National Scout Museum. I was a Cub Scout as a child so I knew about the uniform, badges, and activities, what I didn’t know was that there were Canadian scouts in Read more
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