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The Vasarely Museum in Budapest, Hungary.

Why the Vasarely Museum is Budapest’s best art museum

The Vasarely Museum, located in the overlooked suburb of Obuda, showcases over 400 works by Op Art pioneer Victor Vasarely. Unlike other Budapest art destinations, it offers a unique perspective on art through geometric patterns and colors. Tickets cost 2,400 forints, free with the Budapest Card.

art, Budapest, Hungary, museums

The Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp, Belgium.

Discovering Antwerp’s Red Star Line Museum: A Migration History

The Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp tells the tale of one of history’s greatest migrations. Walking through Antwerp’s Diamond District Just out of Antwerp’s magnificently OTT, cathedral-esque Centraal Station, the Diamond District starts. The majority of the world’s sparklers are traded here, but the…

Antwerp, Belgium, museums

National Museum of Scotland review: The bit to visit first

With limited time at the National Museum of Scotland, the Beginnings and Early People sections are the best bet for first time visitors. How big is the National Museum of Scotland The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh is a vast attraction, spread over nine…

Edinburgh, museums, reviews, Scotland, UK

Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park in Seattle, Washington.

Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park: Seattle’s best free attraction

A review of Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park in Seattle’s Pioneer Square. How Seattle made its fortune To the uninitiated, Seattle was founded on some terrifying combination of Starbucks, Microsoft, Boeing and Kurt Cobain T-shirts. Well, this isn’t entirely untrue, but there’s a surprise…

museums, Seattle, USA, Washington

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

How to get into the Van Gogh Museum when tickets are sold out

Van Gogh Museum tours — which include admission tickets — have availability when normal entry tickets have sold out. Here’s how to get inside Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum when there are no tickets left. Visiting Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam…

Amsterdam, art, museums, Netherlands

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland | Review

Skips the miles of memorabilia to discover the history of Rock and Roll in Cleveland, Ohio. To skip the review and just buy tickets for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, step this way… Memorabilia at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame There…

Cleveland, museums, music, Ohio, reviews

Inside Te Ara on Rarotonga, the Cook Islands.

Te Ara on Rarotonga: The story of the Pacific Islanders

In the Cook Islands, the small Te Ara museum provides an unexpectedly engrossing look at the settlement of the Pacific Islands. The wall map in Te Ara For map geeks, the one on the wall in Te Ara is utterly engrossing. It not only shows…

Cook Islands, museums, Pacific Islands, Rarotonga

The invention of baseball – and the Abner Doubleday myth

Desperately trying to get some kind of understanding of baseball, David Whitley heads to Boston’s Fenway Park and Cooperstown, where the game was supposedly invented. Hunched over the bar, faintly jet-lagged, the statistics blizzard fired past. I had, I quickly realised, no idea what any…

baseball, Boston, Massachusetts, museums, New York, sport, USA

Visual trickery at the Museum of Illusions, Las Vegas.

Museum of Illusions Las Vegas – review

The Museum of Illusions in Las Vegas is fun, but gets overshadowed by competitors offering similar attractions at a grander scale. Visiting the Las Vegas Museum of Illusions Sometimes an experience is coloured by what comes before it. In my case, that’s certainly true for…

family travel, Las Vegas, museums, Nevada, reviews, USA

Vailima, Robert Louis Stevenson's house in Samoa.

Vailima, Samoa: Visiting Robert Louis Stevenson’s grave

Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa Visiting Robert Louis Stevenson’s grave is quite the trek. Somewhat surprisingly, the Scottish author is buried in the Pacific nation of Samoa. Stevenson, who wrote the likes of Treasure Island and Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, was a sickly chap…

literature, museums, Pacific Islands, Samoa