| Check out the 1903 Wright Flyer & an Apollo lunar module at this Smithsonian spot |
the Air and Space Museum |
200 |
October 27, 2017 |
| Geek out over the Polaroid historical collection & slide rule collection at this Mass. school's museum |
MIT |
400 |
October 27, 2017 |
| In 2001 the Taliban purged this country's National Museum of pre-Islamic statues |
Afghanistan |
600 |
October 27, 2017 |
| The St. Petersburg, Florida museum devoted to this Spanish artist features one of his lobster telephones |
(Salvador) Dali |
800 |
October 27, 2017 |
| The National Civil Rights Museum is located in this former Memphis motel |
the Lorraine Motel |
1000 |
October 27, 2017 |
| Exhibits at the Denmark museum devoted to this children's author include his top hat & letters to singer Jenny Lind |
Hans Christian Andersen |
200 |
September 26, 2012 |
| A prison has been taken over by unhinged inmates in this notorious chamber of Madame Tussaud's London wax museum |
Horrors |
400 |
September 26, 2012 |
| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem.) The Shrine of the Book, which houses these texts, discovered in the 1940s, is shaped like the top of one of the jars that contained them |
the Dead Sea Scrolls |
600 |
September 26, 2012 |
| The American Museum of Science & Energy is in this city just west of Knoxville, Tennessee |
Oak Ridge |
1000 |
September 26, 2012 |
| Architect Pierre Cuypers designed this museum that houses Vermeer's "The Kitchen Maid" |
the Rijksmuseum (in Amsterdam) |
|
September 26, 2012 |
| The Amsterdam house where this diarist & her family hid during WWII has been a museum since 1960 |
Anne Frank |
200 |
July 16, 2010 |
| The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is at this Cambridge, Massachusetts institution |
Harvard |
400 |
July 16, 2010 |
| The Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site includes Booker T. Washington's home & a museum devoted to this peanut guy |
George Washington Carver |
600 |
July 16, 2010 |
| The Tate Gallery & the Tate Modern are in this city |
London |
800 |
July 16, 2010 |
| New York City has many museums, like Columbus Circle's MAD, the Museum of Arts & this |
Design |
1000 |
July 16, 2010 |
| The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. is part of this museum complex |
the Smithsonian |
200 |
November 11, 2009 |
| In April 2009 the glass pyramid at this Paris museum celebrated its 20th anniversary |
the Louvre |
400 |
November 11, 2009 |
| The Temple of Dendur is in the Sackler Wing of this ginormous NYC museum |
the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
600 |
November 11, 2009 |
| In Denver, you can visit the home of Molly Brown, who survived the sinking of this in 1912 |
the <i>Titanic</i> |
800 |
November 11, 2009 |
| Sue, the largest, most complete & best preserved T. rex, makes her home at the Field Museum in this city |
Chicago |
1000 |
November 11, 2009 |
| Boneshakers, Velocipedes, & Schwinns abound in a museum honoring this mode of transport |
bicycles |
200 |
June 3, 2008 |
| The Shrine of the Book, which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, is a wing of this country's national museum |
Israel |
400 |
June 3, 2008 |
| Honorees at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Florida include this first American in space |
(Alan) Shepard |
600 |
June 3, 2008 |
| You might say this company's World of Rubber in Akron, Ohio is one museum you'll never tire of |
Goodyear |
800 |
June 3, 2008 |
| In 1997 a museum devoted to this artist opened in Santa Fe, New Mexico |
(Georgia) O\'Keeffe |
1000 |
June 3, 2008 |
| The great men of France circa 1780 are immortalized in the "Grands Hommes" gallery of this museum |
the Louvre |
200 |
September 27, 2007 |
| The highlight of Argentina's national history museum in this city is Candido Lopez's historical canvases |
Buenos Aires |
400 |
September 27, 2007 |
| Works by Titian, Raphael & others, sold by the USSR to Andrew Mellon, became the core of this D.C. museum |
The National Gallery of Art |
800 |
September 27, 2007 |
| The Atheneum in Hartford, Conn. bears the name of this founder, no relation to Longfellow |
Daniel Wadsworth |
1000 |
September 27, 2007 |
| NYC's MoMA is the Museum of Modern Art; L.A.'s MOCA is The Museum of this type of art |
Contemporary Art |
|
September 27, 2007 |
| Out here we're proud of this, LACMA for short-- it's not the Met, but it has a Rembrandt, okay? |
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
200 |
March 7, 2006 |
| There's a 1941 Crosley at this state's National Automobile Museum, built on Bill Harrah's collection |
Nevada |
400 |
March 7, 2006 |
| This city's Accademia features work by native sons Giorgione & Canaletto |
Venice |
600 |
March 7, 2006 |
| The Berlin building seen here is the archive of this influential school of design |
Bauhaus |
800 |
March 7, 2006 |
| This NYC museum opened a museum in Las Vegas in partnership with Russia's Hermitage |
the Guggenheim |
1000 |
March 7, 2006 |
| You can take the Powell-Mason line of these to a museum of them in San Francisco |
cable cars |
200 |
June 9, 2004 |
| The National Civil Rights Museum has an exhibit about the enrollment of James Meredith at this school in 1962 |
(the University of) Mississippi |
400 |
June 9, 2004 |
| A museum in Springer, New Mexico bears the name of this Old West trail that opened in 1821 |
the Santa Fe Trail |
600 |
June 9, 2004 |
| This 16th century English king is honored at the International Bowling Museum & Hall of Fame in St. Louis |
Henry VIII |
800 |
June 9, 2004 |
| Museo de Frida Kahlo is located in this world capital city |
Mexico City |
1000 |
June 9, 2004 |
| The museum of this 19th C. Dutch-born painter is on an Amsterdam street named for 17th C. painter Paulus Potter |
Vincent Van Gogh |
200 |
June 4, 2003 |
| A blue sculpture of a hippopotamus named William has become a mascot of this large NYC museum |
Metropolitan Museum of Art |
400 |
June 4, 2003 |
| The New Haven Colony Historical Society in Connecticut has his original cotton gin on display |
Eli Whitney |
600 |
June 4, 2003 |
| A museum at this theologian's Wittenberg home has a vast collection of Reformation history |
Martin Luther |
800 |
June 4, 2003 |
| You can buy RR souvenirs at the Tennessee home where this engineer lived at the time of his 1900 death |
Casey Jones |
1000 |
June 4, 2003 |
| A museum in Superior, Arizona with a mere 80 square feet for exhibits claims this distinction |
world\'s smallest museum |
200 |
March 5, 2003 |
| Built as a convent school, an Australian museum honoring this British sea captain has his cannon & anchor on display |
Captain James Cook |
400 |
March 5, 2003 |
| The Patton Museum of Chivalry & Armor at this fort has several German Panzer tanks (in case Indiana invades?) |
Fort Knox |
600 |
March 5, 2003 |
| A Boston museum features the Beaver II, a full-scale replica of one of the 3 ships involved in this 1773 event |
Boston Tea Party |
800 |
March 5, 2003 |
| This Amsterdam museum was once called the Great Royal Museum |
Rijksmuseum |
1000 |
March 5, 2003 |
| Elvis-a-Rama, just off the strip in this city is said to have $5 million worth of Elvis memorabilia on display |
Las Vegas |
200 |
September 2, 2002 |
| Bertramka Villa in Prague, a museum devoted to this "Don Giovanni" composer, has his harpsichord in display |
Mozart |
400 |
September 2, 2002 |
| The Beachside branch of this Ca. museum endowed by an oil tycoon is modeled on the Villa Dei Papiri of ancient Rome |
the Getty Museum |
800 |
September 2, 2002 |
| Behind St. Augustine's church in Waikiki, there's a small museum devoted to this Belgian priest's life |
Father Damien |
1000 |
September 2, 2002 |
| The museum devoted to this pop artist is in Pittsburgh, where he went to college |
Andy Warhol |
|
September 2, 2002 |
| Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" is one of the delightful paintings at this Spanish museum |
The Prado |
100 |
February 13, 2001 |
| A Tokyo museum dedicated to this Beatle opened Oct. 9, 2000, which would have been his 60th birthday |
John Lennon |
200 |
February 13, 2001 |
| Seen here, Manet's painting of "Nana" hangs in the Kunshalle, a great museum in this seaport of northern Germany |
Hamburg |
300 |
February 13, 2001 |
| We wonder what they sell in the gift shop of the Opium House Museum in Sop Ruak, this nation's Golden Triangle |
Thailand |
400 |
February 13, 2001 |
| The central gallery of this French museum, once a train station, is seen here |
Musee d\'Orsay |
500 |
February 13, 2001 |
| Princess Leia's gown & other cool stuff from this film series are at Chicago's Field Museum till January 7, 2001 |
<i>Star Wars</i> |
100 |
December 26, 2000 |
| The Viking Ship Museum is one of the top attractions in Oslo, the capital of this country |
Norway |
200 |
December 26, 2000 |
| It's "Gouda" to know there's a museum featuring types of this dairy product in Alkmaar, Holland |
cheese |
300 |
December 26, 2000 |
| There's a New England pirate museum in this Massachusetts city, as well as a witch museum |
Salem |
400 |
December 26, 2000 |
| When visiting Yokohama, "worm" your way over to the museum devoted to this fine fabric |
silk |
500 |
December 26, 2000 |
| The National Prisoner of War Museum is at the site of this Confederate prison camp in Georgia |
Andersonville |
100 |
December 1, 1999 |
| In 1902 the Egyptian Museum moved from this "pyramid" city to nearby Cairo |
Giza |
200 |
December 1, 1999 |
| In 1885 this Amsterdam art museum moved to its present structure which was designed by P.J.H. Cuypers |
Rijksmuseum |
400 |
December 1, 1999 |
| Ceremonial robes of these onetime highest Venetian officials are displayed in Venice's Museo Correr |
Doges |
500 |
December 1, 1999 |
| A museum devoted to humor in all its forms opened in Montreal on this holiday in 1993 |
April Fools\' Day |
|
December 1, 1999 |
| 10,000 years of rollin' along are chronicled in Memphis' museum dedicated to this river |
Mississippi River |
100 |
July 20, 1999 |
| You can see old-time longboards at Huntington Beach, California's museum of this sport |
Surfing |
200 |
July 20, 1999 |
| Colorado Springs' American Cowboy Museum also has the hall of fame for this event |
Rodeo |
300 |
July 20, 1999 |
| This Hollywood store that includes a lingerie museum was named for a man whose last name was Mellinger |
Frederick\'s of Hollywood |
400 |
July 20, 1999 |
| A Manhattan cultural museum is named for these Latin-American areas of U.S. cities |
Barrios |
500 |
July 20, 1999 |
| 1,200-year-old Viking ships are on display at the Vikingskiphuset in this Norwegian capital |
Oslo |
100 |
September 10, 1998 |
| This Madrid museum's first holdings consisted of art collections of the Hapsburg & Bourbon kings |
The Prado |
200 |
September 10, 1998 |
| This railroad's museum in Omaha has a tea set from Lincoln's private car & a replica of the Golden Spike |
Union Pacific |
400 |
September 10, 1998 |
| The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe resembles one of these Navajo dwellings |
Hogan |
500 |
September 10, 1998 |
| Museum in which you'll find the Rosetta Stone & the Elgin Marbles |
The British Museum |
|
September 10, 1998 |
| The Ajaccio, Corsica home in which this French emperor was born is now a museum |
Napoleon |
100 |
March 26, 1998 |
| The story of world currency is told via exhibits at the Currency Museum in this Canadian capital |
Ottawa |
200 |
March 26, 1998 |
| A museum in this southernmost city in the continental U.S. displays Florida's lighthouse history |
Key West |
300 |
March 26, 1998 |
| The Hertzberg Circus Collection in San Antonio includes memorabilia of this 19th C. little "general" |
Tom Thumb |
400 |
March 26, 1998 |
| Named for Bill Monroe, a hall of fame in Bean Blossom, Indiana is devoted to this form of country music |
Bluegrass |
500 |
March 26, 1998 |
| This building in Philadelphia houses the inkstand used by the Declaration signers |
Independence Hall |
100 |
February 10, 1998 |
| The Whizstreet "Up In Smoke" Museum is a web site exhibiting the art of these colorful cigar items |
Cigar bands |
200 |
February 10, 1998 |
| Barry Goldwater donated his Kachina doll collection to the Heard Museum in this state capital |
Phoenix |
300 |
February 10, 1998 |
| The Eisenhower Center in this Kansas town houses numerous mementos of the president's life & career |
Abilene |
400 |
February 10, 1998 |
| A Brussels art & history museum has a giant statue from this Chilean island on exhibit |
Easter Island |
500 |
February 10, 1998 |
| The Nat'l Museum of African Art is housed in an underground building in this Washington, D.C. museum complex |
Smithsonian |
100 |
June 2, 1997 |
| This French city known for its mustard houses a museum of mustard |
Dijon |
200 |
June 2, 1997 |
| A bank museum in Liberty, MO. has memorabilia relating to this man & his gang who robbed it February 13, 1866 |
Jesse James |
300 |
June 2, 1997 |
| This financier's art museum in Malibu, California was originally housed in his home |
J. Paul Getty |
400 |
June 2, 1997 |
| The Hayden Planetarium is a part of this New York City museum |
Museum of Natural History |
500 |
June 2, 1997 |
| The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto features a pair of black silk socks worn by this emperor on St. Helena |
Napoleon |
100 |
May 9, 1997 |
| It's Spain's national museum of painting & sculpture |
The Prado |
200 |
May 9, 1997 |
| The National Museum of American History is just one part of this Washington, D.C. institution |
Smithsonian |
300 |
May 9, 1997 |
| The Museo Numismatico in Lima contains coins from this country from colonial times to the present |
Peru |
400 |
May 9, 1997 |
| The setting for "Hamlet", Kronberg Castle in this Danish town now houses a maritime museum |
Helsingborg |
500 |
May 9, 1997 |
| One of the world's largest equine museums is the Kentucky Derby Museum in this city |
Louisville |
100 |
April 8, 1997 |
| This singing movie cowboy's Western Heritage Museum in Los Angeles has memorabilia from his films |
Gene Autry |
200 |
April 8, 1997 |
| This city's art museum in Forest Park was the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1904 World's Fair |
St. Louis |
300 |
April 8, 1997 |
| Displays at the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Ala. chronicle such pilots as this "Red Baron" |
Manfred von Richthofen |
400 |
April 8, 1997 |
| The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis has an exhibit on this city's 1955 bus boycott |
Montgomery, Alabama |
500 |
April 8, 1997 |
| More than 200 wax figures are on display in the Plaza Theatre of Wax, across from the Alamo in this city |
San Antonio |
100 |
February 5, 1997 |
| Vermeer's "Young Woman with a Water Jug" is one of many treasures in this huge 5th Avenue museum |
the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
200 |
February 5, 1997 |
| Arizona State University in this city boasts a museum of geology & an art museum |
Tempe |
300 |
February 5, 1997 |
| There's a model railroad museum in the Casa de Balboa in this 2nd-largest city on the U.S. Pacific coast |
San Diego |
400 |
February 5, 1997 |
| You'll find this Alabama city's museum of art at the Von Braun Civic Center |
Huntsville |
500 |
February 5, 1997 |
| A Dover, Delaware museum depicts the history of this early phonograph |
Victrola |
100 |
December 17, 1996 |
| One of the largest natural history museums in the world, this NYC facility has over 40 exhibition halls |
American Museum of Natural History |
200 |
December 17, 1996 |
| The National Atomic Museum is located at Kirtland Air Force Base near this largest New Mexico city |
Albuquerque |
300 |
December 17, 1996 |
| City where you'd find the Stedelijk & Van Gogh Museums |
Amsterdam |
400 |
December 17, 1996 |
| This eastern Minnesota city is home to the Lake Superior Museum of Transportation |
Duluth |
500 |
December 17, 1996 |
| A Hibbing, Minn. museum traces the history of this bus company founded there in 1914 using Hupmobiles |
Greyhound |
100 |
November 15, 1996 |
| A replica of a rubber plantation is displayed at this company's World of Rubber Museum in Akron, Ohio |
Goodyear |
200 |
November 15, 1996 |
| A North Tonawanda, N.Y. museum displays the process of carving animals for this amusement ride |
a carousel |
100 |
October 9, 1996 |
| Her Pulitzer Prize for "The Good Earth" is displayed at her Dublin, Penn. home |
(Pearl) Buck |
200 |
October 9, 1996 |
| The history of this type of auto racing is displayed at "Big Daddy" Don Garlits' museum in Ocala, Fla. |
drag racing |
300 |
October 9, 1996 |
| This Russian museum's Winter Palace was designed by Bartolommeo Rastrelli in the 1750s |
the Hermitage |
400 |
October 9, 1996 |
| The Fort Christian Museum of the U.S. Virgin Islands is located in this capital city |
Charlotte Amalie |
500 |
October 9, 1996 |
| Art collected by Peggy Guggenheim is displayed in her palazzo on the Grand Canal in this city |
Venice |
100 |
January 29, 1996 |
| The Jacques Marchais Center of Tibetan Art isn't in Tibet but in this "island" borough of New York City |
Staten Island |
200 |
January 29, 1996 |
| There's a London museum devoted to these objects formerly fluttered by flirtatious females |
fans |
300 |
January 29, 1996 |
| Once a center for blockade runners, this British colony in the Atlantic has a Confederate museum |
Bermuda |
400 |
January 29, 1996 |
| A statue of King Olav V on skis stands near the Holmenkollen Ski Museum in this capital |
Oslo |
500 |
January 29, 1996 |
| This opera house in Milan has a museum devoted to its history |
La Scala |
100 |
November 21, 1995 |
| The Museum of the Chinese Revolution in Beijing is located on this famous square |
Tiananmen Square |
200 |
November 21, 1995 |
| In 1995, after much controversy & debate, this WWII B-29 bomber went on display at the Smithsonian |
Enola Gay |
300 |
November 21, 1995 |
| This Dutch national art museum had its origins in one founded by Louis Bonaparte in 1808 |
The Rijksmuseum |
400 |
November 21, 1995 |
| In 1909 King Edward VII opened the new building of this London museum of decorative & fine arts |
Victoria & Albert Museum |
500 |
November 21, 1995 |
| In 1995 this Calif. county's Museum of Art, LACMA, presented an exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein prints |
Los Angeles County |
100 |
July 12, 1995 |
| The Queen's Gallery in this English palace has been open to the public since 1962 |
Buckingham |
200 |
July 12, 1995 |
| Velazquez' famous painting "Las Meninas" is in this Spanish art museum |
the Prado |
300 |
July 12, 1995 |
| Noted for its modern art, the Stedelijk Museum in this city is a short walk from the Rijksmuseum |
Amsterdam |
400 |
July 12, 1995 |
| The American Decorative Arts Tour is a feature of the Winterthur Museum near Wilmington in this state |
Delaware |
500 |
July 12, 1995 |
| Sweden's Ethnographical Nordic Museum is in this capital city |
Stockholm |
100 |
June 16, 1995 |
| The George C. Page Museum in Los Angeles features creatures recovered from this adjacent site |
La Brea Tar Pits |
200 |
June 16, 1995 |
| Small independent state in which you'd find the Gregorian Museum of Etruscan Art |
Vatican (Vatican City) |
300 |
June 16, 1995 |
| The house of this creator of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is now maintained as a museum |
Beatrix Potter |
400 |
June 16, 1995 |
| Objects by this Russian jeweler are on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts |
Fabergé |
500 |
June 16, 1995 |
| Museum Island in this German capital has several notable museums, including the Pergamon & Bode |
Berlin |
100 |
February 6, 1995 |
| In 1988 the National Gallery of Canada in this city moved into a permanent home |
Ottawa |
200 |
February 6, 1995 |
| This capital's Norsk Folkemuseum has 150 rebuilt structures from all over the country |
Oslo |
300 |
February 6, 1995 |
| His presidential museum is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan |
Gerald Ford |
400 |
February 6, 1995 |
| The Whitney Museum of American Art has America's largest collection of the art of this mobile maker |
(Alexander) Calder |
500 |
February 6, 1995 |
| In the 17th c. you could find Mona Lisa in Louis XIV's suite; now she "hangs around" here |
the Louvre |
100 |
January 4, 1995 |
| This singing cowboy has a western heritage museum in Los Angeles' Griffith Park |
Gene Autry |
200 |
January 4, 1995 |
| Tom Brokaw narrates the audio tour of this old immigration center's museum |
Ellis Island |
300 |
January 4, 1995 |
| At his museum in St. Petersburg, Florida you can buy a watch inspired by "The Persistence of Memory" |
Salvador Dali |
500 |
January 4, 1995 |
| The Fenimore House Museum is 1 mile outside this New York village |
Cooperstown |
|
January 4, 1995 |
| This museum is headquartered on Great Russell Street in the Bloomsbury section of London |
The British Museum |
100 |
November 23, 1994 |
| The William F. Harrah Foundation National Automobile Museum is in this Nevada city, not Las Vegas |
Reno |
200 |
November 23, 1994 |
| The Museum of the Confederacy is on the grounds of the Confederate White House in this city |
Richmond, Virginia |
300 |
November 23, 1994 |
| The Delaware site of this family's 1st gunpowder mill is now an industrial museum |
DuPont |
400 |
November 23, 1994 |
| The Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum has this Missouri artist's last mural |
Thomas Hart Benton |
500 |
November 23, 1994 |
| This soup company in Camden, N.J. has a museum of soup tureens, bowls & ladles |
Campbell\'s |
100 |
November 9, 1994 |
| The National Portrait Gallery is a part of this Washington, D.C. museum complex |
Smithsonian |
200 |
November 9, 1994 |
| Memorabilia of this aviatrix are displayed at the County Historical Museum in her hometown, Atchison, Kan. |
Amelia Earhart |
300 |
November 9, 1994 |
| The University of Pittsburgh has a library & museum devoted to this composer of "Oh! Susanna" |
(Stephen) Foster |
400 |
November 9, 1994 |
| The Topkapi Palace, in this city on the Bosporus, includes several museums |
Istanbul |
500 |
November 9, 1994 |
| This poet's birthplace & museum lie near the Brig O'Doon featured in his poem "Tam O'Shanter" |
Robert Burns |
100 |
September 5, 1994 |
| You'll find the more than 20-ton Aztec "sun stone" in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in this capital city |
Mexico City |
200 |
September 5, 1994 |
| The Tate Gallery is housed in a neoclassical building that overlooks this river |
the Thames |
300 |
September 5, 1994 |
| Every year this Fifth Avenue art museum decorates a Christmas tree with beautiful Baroque angels |
the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
400 |
September 5, 1994 |
| This natural history museum's original name was the Columbian Museum of Chicago |
the Field Museum |
500 |
September 5, 1994 |
| This "Bluegrass State" has an International Museum of the Horse in Lexington |
Kentucky |
100 |
July 12, 1994 |
| The Museum of Dolls in this Riviera principality has a collection of early mechanical dolls |
Monaco |
200 |
July 12, 1994 |
| This European city's Musee d'Orsay is a converted railway station built in 1900 |
Paris |
300 |
July 12, 1994 |
| Founded in 1773, this South Carolina port's museum is the nation's oldest |
Charleston |
400 |
July 12, 1994 |
| Capital in which you'd find the Newfoundland & Labrador Museum of Transportation |
St. John\'s |
500 |
July 12, 1994 |
| The British Museum stands on the site of Montagu House, its original home, in this capital city |
London |
100 |
February 22, 1994 |
| A blue sculpture of a hippo known as William is the unofficial mascot of this Fifth Avenue art museum |
Metropolitan |
200 |
February 22, 1994 |
| Originally, this premier Spanish art museum was designed to be a natural science museum |
Prado |
300 |
February 22, 1994 |
| The "Stars and Stripes", the 1st research plane to fly over this continent, is in the Virginia Aviation Museum |
Antarctica |
400 |
February 22, 1994 |
| Even the most jaded traveler should enjoy the Jade Museum in this capital of Costa Rica |
San José |
500 |
February 22, 1994 |
| I.M. Pei designed the glass pyramid that crowns an entrance to this Paris museum |
the Louvre |
100 |
January 19, 1993 |
| The Tuskegee Institute has a museum named for this famed scientist who taught at the college |
George Washington Carver |
200 |
January 19, 1993 |
| Exhibits on Tom Thumb & Jenny Lind are highlights of a Bridgeport, Conn. museum devoted to this man |
P.T. Barnum |
300 |
January 19, 1993 |
| A submarine launched by John P. Holland in the 1800s can be seen at the Paterson Museum in this state |
New Jersey |
400 |
January 19, 1993 |
| This institution's National Museum of Design is not in Washington but in the Carnegie Mansion in New York City |
the Smithsonian |
500 |
January 19, 1993 |
| An Ulverston, England museum is devoted to the film careers of this comedy pair who starred in "The Flying Deuces" |
Laurel & Hardy |
100 |
November 13, 1992 |
| A collection of the art of this 20th century Spanish painter is housed at the Hotel Sale in Paris |
Pablo Picasso |
200 |
November 13, 1992 |
| This city's Field Museum of Natural History has a 250,000 volume reference library |
Chicago |
300 |
November 13, 1992 |
| Austin, TX has a museum devoted to this short-story author of "Cabbages And Kings" |
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) |
400 |
November 13, 1992 |
| The Drake Well Museum in Titusville in this state commemorates the first oil well in the U.S. |
Pennsylvania |
500 |
November 13, 1992 |
| This largest Nevada city has a museum dedicated to Mormon pioneers |
Las Vegas |
100 |
May 28, 1992 |
| This Confederate president's Richmond, Virginia residence contains more than 2,000 Civil War relics |
Jefferson Davis |
200 |
May 28, 1992 |
| When opened in 1819, this Madrid museum consisted of art collections of the Hapsburg & Bourbon kings |
the Prado |
300 |
May 28, 1992 |
| It's Russia's largest museum |
the Hermitage |
400 |
May 28, 1992 |
| Modern art can be seen at this odd-shaped NYC on Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets |
the Guggenheim |
|
May 28, 1992 |
| The oldest U.S. museum is the Charleston Museum, established in 1773 in this colony |
South Carolina |
100 |
June 19, 1991 |
| You can find the Mummers Museum in this U.S. city famous for its Mummers |
Philadelphia |
200 |
June 19, 1991 |
| Canada's National Gallery in this city contains the world's most extensive collection of Canadian art |
Ottawa |
300 |
June 19, 1991 |
| L.A.'s George C. Page Museum has over 1 million fossils taken from here |
the La Brea Tar Pits |
400 |
June 19, 1991 |
| Marcel Breuer designed this New York museum founded by Gloria Vanderbilt's aunt |
the Whitney |
500 |
June 19, 1991 |
| A furnished Hoosier log cabin can be found in the world's largest kids museum in this capital |
Indianapolis |
100 |
June 22, 1990 |
| "Holey" cow! Middlefield, Ohio has a museum & an annual festival devoted to this cheese |
Swiss cheese |
100 |
November 24, 1989 |
| The cranberry World Museum is a short stroll away from this famous rock |
Plymouth Rock |
200 |
November 24, 1989 |
| Ironically, this Pennsylvania city's flood museum was flooded in 1977 & had to be renovated |
Johnstown |
300 |
November 24, 1989 |
| Mamma Mia! This country has a spaghetti historical museum in Pontedassio |
Italy |
100 |
November 7, 1989 |
| You can visit an Asian art museum, a carousel museum & a cable car museum in this city |
San Francisco |
200 |
November 7, 1989 |
| You don't have to be nuts to visit The Nut Museum in this Nutmeg State |
Connecticut |
300 |
November 7, 1989 |
| The American Museum of Natural History has an annual film festival named for this anthropologist |
Margaret Mead |
400 |
November 7, 1989 |
| This Nevada ghost town boasts the Mark Twain Museum of Memories & the Bucket of Blood Saloon |
Virginia City |
500 |
November 7, 1989 |
| Included in this group of museums & galleries is the Gregorian Etruscan Museum begun by Pope Gregory XVI |
the Vatican |
100 |
October 3, 1989 |
| The Gunfighter's Wax Museum is located in this Kansas town where TV's "Gunsmoke" took place" |
Dodge City |
200 |
October 3, 1989 |
| This NYC art museum has acquired over 1,000 musical instruments since 1980 |
the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
300 |
October 3, 1989 |
| This museum that Prince Albert helped found recently asked 9 curators to resign in a reorganization |
the Victoria & Albert Museum |
400 |
October 3, 1989 |
| Department store magnate who helped to start the Chicago Museum of Natural History |
(Marshall) Field |
500 |
October 3, 1989 |
| The 1st public museum in England, the Ashmolean, opened at this university in 1683 |
Oxford |
100 |
November 22, 1988 |
| The name of this world-famous museum is Spanish for "meadow" |
El Prado |
200 |
November 22, 1988 |
| The Hollywood Stuntmen's Hall of Fame isn't in Hollywood; it's in Moab in ths "Beehive" state |
Utah |
300 |
November 22, 1988 |
| This museum publishes a monthly magazine appropriately called "Natural History" |
American Museum of Natural History |
400 |
November 22, 1988 |
| This New York museum has run "Twilight Zone", "Honeymooners" & Milton Berle festivals |
Museum of Broadcasting |
500 |
November 22, 1988 |
| David Hockney's show at LACMA featured a portrait of this late "Hairspray" star--in male attire |
Divine |
100 |
June 14, 1988 |
| Ptolemy I was the daddy, not the mummy, of the famed museum & library in this city |
Alexandria |
200 |
June 14, 1988 |
| This Hollywood store's Bra Museum boasts bras worn by Madonna, the Pointer Sisters, & even Tony Curtis |
Frederick\'s of Hollywood |
300 |
June 14, 1988 |
| This religious leader's former residence, Beehive House, is now a museum |
Brigham Young |
400 |
June 14, 1988 |
| The cabildo where this agreement was signed in 1803 now houses part of the Louisiana State Museum |
the Louisiana Purchase |
500 |
June 14, 1988 |
| The Craddock-Terry Shoe Museum in Lynchburg, Va. boasts a pair of her "heels of fortune" |
Vanna White |
100 |
May 5, 1988 |
| The Heard Museum in Phoenix displays Hopi Indian dolls collected by this senator |
Barry Goldwater |
200 |
May 5, 1988 |
| Appropriately, Louisville, Kentucky's Derby Museum is adjacent to this racetrack |
Churchill Downs |
300 |
May 5, 1988 |
| This S.D. city where Wild Bill Hickok died also boasts a Chinese tunnel museum with opium den |
Deadwood |
400 |
May 5, 1988 |
| Her farmhouse in Kenya, now a museum, is in Karen, the Nairobi suburb named for her |
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) |
500 |
May 5, 1988 |
| Guinness says the world's largest single museum is this city's American Museum of Natural History |
New York City |
100 |
January 8, 1988 |
| Movieland in Buena Park, California is this type of museum |
wax museum |
200 |
January 8, 1988 |
| Knott's Berry Farm's Museum of Miniatures features these "circus" insects in handmade costumes |
fleas |
300 |
January 8, 1988 |
| A statue of Chas. Goodyear holding hunks of rubber graces Goodyear's World of Rubber in this Ohio city |
Akron |
400 |
January 8, 1988 |
| A Kansas museum abuzz with live bees also has a dead horse, Commanche, who survived this 1876 battle |
Custer\'s Last Stand |
500 |
January 8, 1988 |
| To find a tape of his 1st Tonight Show, a Museum of Broadcasting ad asked "Whhheeere's" this man |
Johnny Carson |
100 |
December 17, 1987 |
| A popular attraction in this city is the Fort Pitt Museum |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
200 |
December 17, 1987 |
| Type of instrument Niccolo Paganini left to the city of Genoa, where it's kept in a museum |
a violin |
300 |
December 17, 1987 |
| Jack Larson, Jimmy Olson on TV's "Superman", donated this part of Jimmy's outfit to the Smithsonian |
his bow tie |
400 |
December 17, 1987 |
| This Midwest city's Museum of Science & Industry has a coal mine & a submarine |
Chicago |
500 |
December 17, 1987 |
| Richmond, Virginia's Old Stone House contains this author's museum & a carved wooden raven |
Poe |
100 |
October 15, 1986 |
| Knott's Berry Farm's Mott Museum features this Da Vinci masterpiece painted on the head of a pin |
<i>The Last Supper</i> |
200 |
October 15, 1986 |
| This Ozark state's Jesse James Bank Museum claims to be the site of the 1st U.S. bank robbery |
Missouri |
300 |
October 15, 1986 |
| This designer's fashions were displayed in the Louvre - maybe because he named his perfume "Paris" |
Yves Saint Laurent |
400 |
October 15, 1986 |
| Visitors are surprised to see a museum of the American Confederacy on this island 586 miles off N.C. |
Bermuda |
500 |
October 15, 1986 |