Tag archives for museums
The Radar: Travel Lately
Posted by Intelligent Travel on January 23, 2013 
The Radar: The top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the web. Got Radar? Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTraveler and tag your favorite travel stories from the web #NGTRadar. Check back on the blog on Wednesdays for our Travel Lately roundup.
The Radar: Colorful Cape Town, Globetrotting in London, Best Museum Restaurants
Posted by Lauren Weaver on October 3, 2012 
The Radar: The top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the web. Got Radar? Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTraveler and tag your favorite travel stories from the Web #ngtradar. Check back on the blog for our roundups.
#FriFotos: Soumaya and the Sky
Posted by Intelligent Travel on June 22, 2012 
This week’s #FriFotos theme is MUSEUMS, so we decided to feature this unbelievable shot that Abelardo de la Torre submitted to the National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. Sixteen thousand aluminum tiles coat the exterior of the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City.
The Radar: Australia’s Treasured Islands, L.A. Free Museum Weekend, Great Restaurants in Budapest
Posted by Giovanna Palatucci on January 18, 2012 
The Radar: Top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the Web. Got Radar? Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTraveler and tag your favorite travel stories from the Web #ngtradar. Check back the next day for our daily roundup.
Free to See: 20 U.S. Museums
Posted by Intelligent Travel on November 14, 2011 
These 20 top-notch museums—of art, fashion, dinosaurs, and more—are free to the public some or all of the time. What are you waiting for? Get a sneak peek of the list below, then find all 20 online.
Nine Odd Museums Around the World
Posted by Intelligent Travel on November 3, 2011 
From medieval sorcery in Iceland to forensics in Bangkok, enjoy a sampling of some of the world’s most oddly fascinating museums. From the National Geographic book Secret Journeys of a Lifetime 1. Museum of Bad Art, Massachusetts MOBA’s curators search thrift stores and Dumpsters for art that transcends the merely incompetent in order to bring the “worst…
The Radar: Great San Fran Museums, Airbnb Adds Concierge Service, Dream Travel Apps
Posted by Giovanna Palatucci on September 16, 2011 
The Radar: Top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the web. Got Radar? Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTraveler and tag your favorite travel stories from the web #ngtradar. Check back the next day for our daily roundup.
The Radar: Tips for Photographing Museums, The History of Postcards, Extraordinary Islands
Posted by Giovanna Palatucci on September 9, 2011 
The Radar: Top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the web. Got Radar? Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTraveler and tag your favorite travel stories from the web #ngtradar. Check back the next day for our daily roundup.
The Radar: Foodie College Towns, Quickest Way to Board a Plane, 8 Must-See Fall Art Shows
Posted by Giovanna Palatucci on September 6, 2011 
The Radar: Top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the web. Got Radar? Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTraveler and tag your favorite travel stories from the web #ngtradar. Check back the next day for our daily roundup.
The Radar: Travel Retro, First-Class Turndown Service, Free Museums
Posted by Giovanna Palatucci on September 2, 2011 
The Radar: Top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the web. Got Radar? Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTraveler and tag your favorite travel stories from the web #ngtradar. Check back the next day for our daily roundup.
Beyond Paris: Toulouse’s Modern Inspiration
Posted by Meg Weaver on August 15, 2011 
Toulouse, France, located nearly 400 miles southwest of Paris, is known as the Ville Rose (the Pink City) as many of its buildings are made of reddish-pink bricks. On clear summer evenings when the sun descends, the city’s buildings blush. Though it’s an old city (the university here was founded in 1229 and the Romanesque…
The Radar: Italian Islands You’ve Never Heard Of, Guide to Valencia, Mexico City Museums
Posted by Giovanna Palatucci on July 26, 2011 
The Radar: Top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the web. Got Radar? Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTraveler and tag your favorite travel stories from the web #ngtradar. Check back the next day for our daily roundup.
The Radar: Celebrate National Ice Cream Month, Germany’s Best Hiking Trail, New Dinosaur Hall
Posted by Giovanna Palatucci on July 19, 2011 
July is National Ice Cream month in the U.S. and you can score a free scoop of the sweet stuff tonight at Omni Hotel properties across the country. Guests will be met with a free ice cream social from 4 to 6 p.m. today, complete with a make your own sundae bar. Sounds delicious. [Omni…
Out of Office: Detroit Industry by iPad
Posted by Mollie Bates on June 29, 2011 
Exploring Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry murals via touch-screen Senior designer Mollie Bates recently spent four days touring Detroit, the most amount of time ever spent there by this Michigan native. The Detroit Institute of Arts provides visitors with a great new way to discover an old masterpiece. During my visit to the DIA last month,…
The Radar: Italy’s Vespa Museum, Provence Cooking Schools, D.C. Jazz Fest
Posted by Giovanna Palatucci on June 6, 2011 
The Vespa might just be as big of an Italian icon as the Colosseum or Sofia Loren. Learn more about the history of the scooter at the Museo Piaggio in Pontedera, Italy where Vespas of all shapes, design, and colors are on display. [Velvet Escape via #ngtradar] Learn about Southern French culinary history and culture,…
The Radar: Cambodia’s Best Beaches, New National Museum, Kung Fu Flight Attendants
Posted by Giovanna Palatucci on May 5, 2011 
Discover the top beaches in Cambodia including the popular Koh Rong Saloem or “Lazy Beach” in Sihanoukville, the premier beach destination for tourists and locals alike. [TravelFish] Local blog DCist reports that a coalition of over 100 ethnic and minority groups have released a design for a new museum on the National Mall. The National…
The Radar: Great Library Tours, Postagram App, Space Shuttle Retirement Homes
Posted by Giovanna Palatucci on April 13, 2011 
It’s National Library Week. Celebrate with a visit to one of the country’s great libraries, like the Library of Congress, which offers guided tours Monday-Saturday of its nearly 838 miles of shelves holding over 33 million books and other printed materials.
Mega-Museum Opens in China
Posted by Meg Weaver on April 5, 2011 The National Museum of China opened on March 17th in Beijing after a $380 million “facelift.” The nearly two-million-square-foot mega-museum containing over a million objects in 48 exhibition halls is purported to be the largest in the world. The revamped museum, located on Tiananmen Square, combines the former Museum of Chinese History and the Museum…
Secret Lives Revealed in Diaries
Posted by Intelligent Travel on March 29, 2011 Before blogs and social media, the self-recording of thoughts and ideas happened on the page of a journal. Margie Goldsmith takes a look at a new exhibition, where the secret lives of literary and artistic greats are revealed. Oprah keeps a diary. So does Nicole Kidman, Richard Branson, Renee Zellwegger, and Alicia Keys. Charlotte Brontë…
Life Before Watson: The Computer History Museum
Posted by Intelligent Travel on February 18, 2011 Friend of IT Alison Brick checks out the Computer History Museum‘s new signature exhibition that explores life before IBM’s Watson conquered Jeopardy! I’ve always been confused when people say they want to visit Silicon Valley. Stopping by Google for a tour might be the dream, but driving around big buildings and being turned away by…
Google Art Project Debuts
Posted by Giovanna Palatucci on February 7, 2011 Google Earth allows you to zoom in on the Taj Mahal. Google Street View lets you take a stroll up Chicago’s Magnificent Mile or through UNESCO World Heritage sites. But up until now, these familiar tools have kept our eyes on the outside. Not anymore. Google has partnered with 17 of the world’s most renowned…
A Photo Gallery of Your Own in San Francisco
Posted by Janelle Nanos on January 27, 2011 On my recent visit to San Francisco, I visited the gorgeous new contemporary photography museum at Pier 24. Described on its website as “a place to view and think about photography,” the museum is contemplative and quiet by design, allowing 20 visitors in at a time by appointment only. This, coupled with the fact that…
The Radar: Wheely Bags Turn 40; Italian Museums Open Late; Misunderstood Gestures
Posted by Janelle Nanos on October 5, 2010 2010 marks the the 40th anniversary of wheeled luggage. Just think back to the time when handles alone were expected to help us lug our bags. This invention of the wheel has proved to become an essential element for any traveler, and to think, it was actually rejected by Macy’s when the inventor, Bernard Sadow,…
Free Museum Day This Saturday
Posted by Intelligent Travel on September 21, 2010 If there’s a museum you’ve been wanting to try out for the first time, Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day is the day to do it. Coming up on Saturday, September 25th, the event allows free entry to more than 1,300 museums and cultural venues across the U.S., including Puerto Rico. The event was started six years…
Cartier-Bresson at MoMA (and Beyond)
Posted by Intelligent Travel on June 22, 2010 If you live in New York City or will be visiting this week, you have a final few days to get thyself to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to see the retrospective exhibition of works by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. The exhibition, titled Henri Cartier‐Bresson: The Modern Century, includes an astonishing number of prints…
