The Albacore is a post World War II experimental submarine now on display in Portsmouth NH. Seeing the sub on land, some height above sea level, is a bit surprising, and it’s clear that moving it there was no small task.
Five dollars will get you inside the sub’s tight and awkward quarters, where you’ll see [...]

Posted November 21, 2008 by Casey
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Most travel guides simply call it the “shovel museum,” but it’s really the Stonehill Industrial History Center. Much more than shovels, curator Greg Galer tells us the collection reveals interesting facts about what we were building and how we built it over the past 200 years.
Located on the campus of Stonehill College in Easton Massachusetts, [...]

Posted May 14, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology, Travel. Tags: greg galer, industrial archaeology, museum, oliver ames, shovel, shovel museum, shovels, stonehill college, stonehill industrial history center. 2 Comments.

I had a good opportunity to revisit the Museum of Bad Art in Dedham Mass earlier this week. Above is my buddy Corey, but I was amused to find that visitors appear to be leaving their own works for the collection.
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Posted April 28, 2006 by Casey Bisson
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Atlanta was a bit of a lark. I hadn’t seen my friends for a while, and they were telling me that the weather was beautiful. So why not go?

Once there we did a marathon tour of museums and galleries, scoping out works by Chuck Close, Roger Ballen, and Iona Rozeal Brown.

Posted April 2, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Style, Fashion and Food, Travel. Tags: art, atlanta, atlanta college of art, Atlanta GA, Chuck Close, galleries, gallery, georgia, high museum, Iona Rozeal Brown, museum, museums, Roger Ballen, saltworks gallery. One Comment.

Howard Hughes‘ Spruce Goose now rests in McMinnville, at the Evergreen Aviation Museum.
The Goose is as long as a 747 with a wingspan a third again as broad, and for a short few seconds in 1947, it flew.
The docent was incredibly pleased to tell us that the tail almost broke off during those few seconds [...]

Posted February 22, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Travel. Tags: aircraft, aviation, evergreen aviation, Evergreen Aviation Museum, flight, Howard Hughes, McMinnville, McMinnville OR, museum, oregon, Spruce Goose. 3 Comments.

I wasn’t just surprised to find a gallery of velvet paintings, I was further surprised to learn they were hosting a show of Valentines velvet works by local artist Juanita and had cards advertising a show of LA artist Arnold Pander’s oil on velvet works at the local Vault Martini Lounge.
But the fact is, Carl [...]

Posted February 21, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Travel. Tags: art, gallery, museum, oil on velvet, oregon, portland, portland or, velvet, velvet paintings, velveteria, weird museum, weird museum tour. 5 Comments.

The first license plate to remember Nevada’s history as the host of the US’s nuclear testing grounds drew criticism for featuring a mushroom cloud (see the plate on the right, above). Now it appears folks are at it again, this time with a plate that depicts the site’s area and includes the classic illustration of [...]

Posted December 29, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: atomic, atomic testing, atomic testing museum, atomic tests, heritage, history, license plate, license plates, museum, nevada test site, nuclear, nuclear test site, nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons, test site. Be the first one.

I’ve been sitting on this story since October, hoping I’d be able to get to the show, but It’s increasingly clear that I’m not getting to NYC for a while. So, anyway…
MoMA is showing SAFE: Design Takes On Risk
Wired Magazine described it:
Just in time for the wave of catastrophes plaguing our fragile planet, some top [...]

Posted December 2, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Style, Fashion and Food, Technology. Tags: exhibit, exhibition, moma, museum, museum of modern art, new york, nyc, SAFE, safety, show. Be the first one.

Dick Porter, of Onset MA, has been building his collection of over 5000 thermometers since the mid-80s, though the collection has nearly doubled since 1998 when it was just over 3000. He calls it the world’s largest and only thermometer museum. He’s certainly passionate about them, and he’s been an invited speaker at more than [...]

Posted November 20, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Travel. Tags: attractions, dick porter, massachusetts, museum, onset, onset ma, thermometer, thermometer museum, thermometers, tour, tourism, Travel. 6 Comments.

I was browsing the NPR archives the other day and found this report on the International Balloon Museum in Albuquerque, N.M.. Of course I want to go there.

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Posted October 14, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Travel. Tags: albuquerque, albuquerque nm, balloon, balloon museum, balloons, international balloon museum, museum, new mexico, npr archives, npr story. 2 Comments.