Located right across the street from the Kingston Penitentiary, Correctional Service Canada’s museum is housed inside Cedarwood, the former house of the prison warden. Entry is free. The lower level has exhibits on early forms of punishment, basically torture, for prisoners until 1969. Water boarding, locking inside a coffin, and Read more
Sharing the grounds with the Kingston General Hospital, the Museum of Health Care has the same long history as the 1830s hospital. It is the largest hospital between Toronto and Ottawa and only hospital in Canada to still be in its original building. The museum building used to be dormitories Read more
The Acadian Museum in Moncton is run by the University of Moncton. It has to be visited with forts Beauséjour and Lawrence to understand the context of the conflict between Acadian, the French, the British, and indigenous Mi’kmaq people in the mid-18th century. The experience is largely dependent on reading Read more
Andrew Carnegie donated almost all of his wealth and some of it has been used to build the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. They should have a bundle to visit all four museums but you have to buy three separate tickets instead. They even encourage timed ticketing, but how am Read more
The Andy Warhol Museum in his native Pittsburgh is under the umbrella of Carnegie’s museums. Visitors start at the top floor of the building and work their way down six floors of galleries from his early life in New York after he graduated from Carnegie Tech all the way to Read more
Dayton has the world’s largest military aviation museum. It houses over 300 aircraft across four hangars organized by time period. There are planes from the two world wars, the anti-communist wars in East Asia, the latter decades of the cold war, and experimental aircraft. The National Aviation Hall of Fame Read more
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States and its 10th chief justice – the only person the have held both offices. He was also the governor of Cuba and the Philippines when they were US colonies. Taft is one of the earlier presidents so he doesn’t Read more
Travelers learning about the underground railroad should start here in Cincinnati before making their way up to the Susan B. Antony House in Rochester, the Windsor-Detroit river crossing, and the Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society. The slave trade existed In Africa but was made more brutal under the Europeans, who brought Read more
What’s a farm doing in the middle of Ottawa? It’s the Central Experimental Farm attached to the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. It’s about a third petting zoo, a third agricultural science, and a third agricultural innovation. After looking at honey and bees inside the museum, visitors are treated to Read more
American art museums typically have a hodgepodge of second-rate American colonial paintings, clusters of meaningless modern sculptures, and obscure fragments of European churches. Not so in Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago consists of two wings, the old building and modern art. Its best to begin early in the morning Read more