Museum

The largest maritime museum on the Great Lakes isn’t the museum in Toledo, it’s in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Valley Camp is a 550-foot long Great Lakes freighter. Although modern ships of the Great Lakes are twice as long, this was one of the largest of its time when it Read more…

The River of History Museum in the Michigan side of Sault Ste. Marie is a history museum on the St. Mary’s River. It shows how Natives lived before European arrival and their interactions with Europeans in the centuries that followed. Its interpretation of the violent history between the US and Read more…

This small city in Ontario has a surprisingly large three-story museum. There’s an exhibition on the contributions people in the region have made to war efforts, but I didn’t get to see it because it was being rearranged. Upstairs on the second floor, there’s a gallery on the history of Read more…

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…