Museums Worth A Special Trip

Quirky, excellent, special museums that are worth a special visit.
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Immigration Museum NYC | Tenement Museum
The Lower Eastside Tenement Museum is a trip back in time in NYC. Amazing stories of real people who lived in these buildings.
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The Portland Children's Museum (in Portland Oregon, natch) is filled with sweetness and thoughtful human-scaled touches throughout their indoor (and outdoor!) spaces.
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Science attraction in East Sussex - The Observatory Science Centre
The Observatory is a science center and multiple(!) telescope domes that are open to the public on the Herstmonceux Castle Estate in East Sussex, UK on what was once the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
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The Louis Armstrong House Museum. At the height of his world-wide popularity Satchmo could have lived anywhere, but he spent the last half of his life in this house in Queens.
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Museums Worth A Special Trip
A blog post from ExhibiTricks with a great comment list of museums worth a special trip. (Alas, The Liberace Museum in Las Vegas is no more.)
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The Center for Civil and Human Rights connects Atlanta legacy and current conflicts - Atlanta Magazine
The Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta. Replica lunch counter allows visitors to experience the abuse protesters withstood.
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Gallery of National Center for Civil and Human Rights Exhibit Design / David Rockwell - 15
National Center for Civil and Human Rights / David Rockwell
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Behind the Screen – Museum of the Moving Image
An underappreciated gem in Astoria. Museum of the Moving Image.
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Worth A Special Trip: Children's Museum of Phoenix
Worth A Special Trip: Children's Museum of Phoenix.
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Visiting the Museum | The Andy Warhol Museum
The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh is certainly worth more than 15 minutes of fame.
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Dia Art Foundation
Dia: Beacon in Beacon, NY is a gigantic renovated Nabisco factory jam-packed with art from heavyweights like Serra, Flavin, and Chamberlain.
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The New Experience | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
The "new" Cooper Hewitt! The museum boasts 60 percent more gallery space to present its important collection and temporary exhibitions and offers an entirely new and invigorated visitor experience, with interactive, immersive creative technologies. Cooper Hewitt’s renovation provides the opportunity to redefine today’s museum experience and inspire each visitor to play designer before, during and after their visit.
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American Visionary Art Museum
AVAM near the Inner Harbor in Baltimore has an incredibly eclectic collection of art created by "non-artists."
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Wave Workshop | Bay Area Discovery Museum
The Bay Area Discovery Museum is a collection of interconnected exhibit buildings and outdoor spaces with a million dollar view of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Exhibits - Montshire Museum of Science
The Montshire Museum offers both indoor and outdoor learning and fun.