Museums

Roanoke: Modern Masterpiece

January 31, 2012
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Roanoke: Modern Masterpiece

The Taubman Museum of Art makes a contemporary design statement all its own.

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Vienna: A Tale of Two Couches

October 25, 2011
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Vienna: A Tale of Two Couches

The Sigmund Freud Museum lets you walk in the steps of the father of psychoanalysis.

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Savannah: Flannery’s Not Hard to Find

June 24, 2011
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Savannah: Flannery’s Not Hard to Find

Finding the roots of a great Southern Gothic author in the home of a rather strange little girl.

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Innsbruck: Swarovski’s Hidden Jewel

June 14, 2011
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Innsbruck: Swarovski’s Hidden Jewel

The subterranean Crystal Worlds museum immerses visitors in the art of Swarovski.

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Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, the Memory Keeper

April 29, 2011
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Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, the Memory Keeper

The Yad Vashem museum offers a sobering reminder of the millions of lives lost in the Holocaust.

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Dublin: Raise a Pint

March 4, 2011
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Dublin: Raise a Pint

The Guinness Storehouse offers the history — and a taste — of Ireland's signature brew.

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Philadelphia: Only in America

January 7, 2011
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Philadelphia: Only in America

The National Museum of American Jewish History claims its place on Independence Mall and in the story of the founding of the nation.

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Taipei: Of Cabbages and Qings

December 21, 2010
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Taipei: Of Cabbages and Qings

Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, can be as intense as any of the big cities across the water in mainland China.  But it also presents an opportunity to view Chinese culture through a different lens, with one stop, the National Palace Museum, offering one of the world’s largest treasuries of Chinese art. Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists spirited these riches...

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Washington, D.C.: The News That Made History

December 17, 2010
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Hurricane Katrina survivor Angela Perkins pleads with journalists outside the New Orleans Convention Center, to tell the world what is happening, screaming, “Help us, pleases." Photo by Brett Dukes

The Newseum offers a compelling view of history told through a journalistic prism.

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Baltimore: Say Cheese

November 30, 2010
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Baltimore: Say Cheese

The American Visionary Art Museum takes a not-too-serious look at "What Makes Us Smile," a special exhibition featuring the input of "The Simpsons'" creator Matt Groening.

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Editor’s Corner

JoAnn Greco considers how some of her favorite cities have been portrayed in some of her favorite movies.

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