Soweto, South Africa
South African travels 2011: Touring Soweto Soweto – the South-Western Townships – is the largest black residential area in South Africa, but it is NOT just a teeming slum on the outskirts of Johannesburg. It Read More …
Tag: museums
At the end of the Gunflint Trail
We start our exploration of the Gunflint Trail with lunch on the patio at the Gunflint Lodge. (We actually started at the Bearskin Lodge in hopes of having lunch in their lovely lake-view dining room. Read More …
Overwhelmed at the National Museum
My cousins aren’t big on museums, but we convince them to join us in sampling the collection at the National Museum of Denmark. Classical Rome (and the Near East) seems like a good bet (who Read More …
Wandering in Balboa Park, San Diego
Where better to spend a beautiful warm winter day than San Diego’s Balboa Park with its mix of architecture, gardens, culture, commerce, and kitsch? The Spanish Village Arts Center is all but deserted when we Read More …
Touring Rural Sweden with my family
We are spending the day touring with some of my cousins. After a leisurely breakfast we pile into a couple of cars and head out for a little local tourist activity. I use links to Read More …
The Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Before I left home a colleague of mine (who would seem to greatly prefer hunting and fishing to visiting museums) told me that I really needed to go to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. He Read More …
The Guthrie (and the Mill City Museum)
In line with my thinking the other day, we start our tour of Minneapolis at the dramatic new Guthrie Theater, which sits amid a plethora of luxury condos and apartments in the revitalized Saint Anthony Read More …
Museums in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota
Not sure what the weather is going to be like this week, so perhaps a few more museums would be a good option. . . and, to keep to the architecture theme of the other Read More …
Summer in the city (Minneapolis)
Michele and Norman are coming to visit!Norman is an architecture buff and Michele worked in downtown Minneapolis many years ago, so a tour of downtown might be a good place to start. We could start Read More …
At the Portland Art Museum
I’m not actually expecting great things of the nearby Portland Art Museum, http://portlandartmuseum.org/ but Lane assures me I will be pleasantly surprised. Oh my, he is so right! The Native American collection is wonderful, with Read More …