House of Harley: a mecca, lively museum
The 80-foot towers look like boom boxes on steroids, monstrous structures of exposed galvanized steel. A sense of supremacy reigns everywhere, even in bathrooms, where […]
Museums
Potosi opens National Brewery Museum
This summer, it’s all about the water – around the barge and by the glass. The Great River Road, whose near-3,000 miles lead motorists into […]
‘Body Worlds’ exhibit had practical beginning
The physician says she and her husband were not looking for public attention when they set up their exhibit for an anatomical society gathering in […]
Play ball! Old World Wisconsin goes retro
A fevered pitch is: (a) What Francisco Cordero hurls, when he does his job well in the ninth inning. (b) One way to describe the […]
Visitors take flight, literally, at EAA museum
I am flying along Hawaii’s Na Pali Coast, admiring a string of glorious but severe cliffs on the small island of Kauai, when the unthinkable […]
No-limit learning propels Discovery World
When the door to the digital theater opens, the first surprise is that the room is full of natural light. Seats face a sheet of […]
9/11 artifacts fill NYC Ground Zero Museum
Dented eyeglasses. Crosses of hope cut from scraps of steel. One computer keyboard, crushed and melted. An ordinary clock, hands frozen at 10:02. Gary Marlon […]
Joe McCarthy, Houdini at Appleton museum
I’m certainly not the first to be tempted to make comparisons between Joseph McCarthy and Houdini. Anybody else want to join in? Hmmm. That didn’t […]
Badger Barbies at home in NY toy museum
Barbara Millicent Roberts, a woman of many personalities, used to hang out in Sturgeon Bay with hundreds of her friends and family. As of this […]
Quilter museums: Cedarburg, Paducah, Ky.
If you are a quilter, you know why Paducah is special. The western Kentucky river city is home to the Museum of the American Quilter’s […]
Mount Horeb museum masters mustards
What a spread it was. In a corner were the fruity recipes – the tart, the sweet, the zesty. Another table was all herb/veggie combos […]
‘Farm Life’ exhibit examines rural living
There is a lot about rural living that I take for granted, having grown up on a 120-acre dairy farm. I assume that everybody has […]