On the third day of my Weird Al Yankovic & Grass Court Tennis trip in July 2019, I had time to explore the Foxwoods Resort Casino area in Mashantucket, CT. One part of this Native American Reservation ground is the…
National Postal Museum (Washington)
One amazing feature of Washington D.C. is the massive number of museums driven by the Smithsonian Institution: they are typically well driven and very educative and on top of that offer free entry. While tourists typically focus on the “Big…
Elvis Presley Birthplace (Tupelo MS)
Even more than 80 years after Elvis Presley‘s birth, Tupelo in Mississippi is still dominated by memories of its most famous sons. You can still eat where “The King” loved to eat in his childhood, buy a guitar in the…
Tutankhamun – Treasures of the Pharao (Paris)
As part of a company event in Paris, I was able to see the Tutankhamun exhibition. Until the completion of the Grand Egyptian Museum near Cairo in 2020, a selection of exhibits are currently touring the world. The tour started…
German Blade Museum Solingen
Solingen, some 30 km Northeast of Cologne, is known as Germany’s headquarter of the knife and scissor industry. Thus, it is not too surprising that the city features a couple of places dealing with these kind of items. One of…
Benjamin Franklin Museum (Philadelphia)
Founding Father of the United States, printer, author, inventor, scientist, many more… It is likely much easier to list the roles and talents, which Benjamin Franklin did not have. For example, he was never President of the United States. Despite…
GDR Museum (DDR Museum) Berlin
Bad times of terror, being pried and controlled in a country without the freedom to move – or good times with a high employment rate, good brotherhood and other amenities? The DDR Museum (GDR Museum) in Berlin may not give an exact…
Lindlar Open Air Museum
Lindlar, a minor Eastern suburb of Cologne, hosts one of two open-air museums driven by the regional Rhineland authority LVR. The key focus is on living in the Bergisches Land region in the 19th and early 20th century and is organised…