The museum of Salt Lake City‘s history is run by volunteers and contains a keen collection of artifacts from the city’s past. Among them are lighting equipment used by pioneers and a restored 1902 fire engine. Pioneers could be railroad workers, miners, Mormons, or anyone else who travelled into the Read more
Mormons established Zion in Missouri in 1831. The government thought that so many Mormons in one place with non-Mormons would cause unrest, so they were relocated to a new area called Caldwell by 1838. In the years that followed, the Mormons were displaced and ended up in Illinois. The founder, Read more
Bububububububububub. That’s what the museum parking lot sounded like on a good day. Single-cylinder, two-stroke engines still sound the best, there’s no contest. The famous motorcycle manufacturer in Milwaukee began as four dudes building bikes for fun. As the company grew, it became an American icon and a way of Read more
Originally from Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright is a renowned American architect who was commissioned to build works such as the Chicago Stock Exchange and the Transportation Building at the Chicago’s World Fair. In addition to massive buildings, he also built homes such as the Walter Davidson House and the Martin 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
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