Category: Museums & Archives

On Friday, June 12th, Day 15 of the trip, the weather was dramatically better! Our planned destination, St. Anthony, was only 35 km away so we had time to do more exploring at the northern tip of the island. I really wanted to return to L’Anse aux Meadows to...

Day 4 of the trip (June 1) was a very enjoyable day of just wandering around the Halifax waterfront, but the next day we were on a mission, to experience what we had identified as the three museums that would best help us understand the Halifax area. First, the...

We’ve started our 41-day Adventure to Newfoundland. This is now Day 4 – we arrived in Halifax yesterday afternoon. The journey began early on May 27th, with a 06:20 Air North flight from Whitehorse to Calgary, where we’d spend 2 days visiting family. The weather forecast had indicated it...

The Louvre Museum is overwhelming. Unless you’ve led a very different life than I have, nothing you see or read with prepare you for it. The onslaught of information, the sight of some of the world’s finest and most famous works of art, is an experience I can’t yet...

The Pima Air & Space Museum is one of the largest non-government funded aviation and space museums in the world, with over 400 aircraft spread over 80 acres, with six large hangars. They recommend 3-4 hours for a visit, but after 2 hours and 160 photos I was totally...

We’ve reached our final full day in Arizona – Friday, November 22nd. Our time in Tucson was split between the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and the Pima Air & Space Museum, then we drove to our hotel near the Phoenix airport. Before leaving the Hotel McCoy, Andrea and I walked...

Our third day at Haines (Wednesday, August 21st) ended on a sour note with my bike breaking, removing one of our planned activities, but there’s always lots to do at Haines. By 06:00 on Thursday the 22nd I had a pot of coffee ready. We carry a blue jug...

I always enjoy seeing people share their passion, and the Hammer Museum is a perfect example of that. The small building in downtown Haines that began life as a private residence a century ago now houses a collection of 2,300 hammers. As impressive as that number is, there are...

On Thursday (August 5th), I drove to Teslin and back to have a look at the George Johnston Museum and to meet a staff member I’d been talking to online, and the director. Part of my reason for going was the firm up a basic template for showing each...

The main objective for Day 27 of our RV trip – Tuesday, May 22nd – was the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel in Cranbrook, which was closed when we were there 2 years ago. Then we’d move on to Sparwood, the first of the Crownest Pass coal mining towns...