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The staff at Otels hope you enjoy the following Travel Ideas
from travel writer (and enthusiastic naturalist) Mark Kolakowski
Best wishes on your next trip!

 

Museum Exhibitions and Travel Planning

By Mark Kolakowski
Copyright © 2010 by the author

When people think of museums with respect to travel planning, this normally is in the context of incorporating visits to noteworthy museums during a trip. Alternatively, art lovers often will make trips primarily to see a renowned museum or a particularly interesting special exhibition. But how about using a museum or a special exhibition to help you plan a trip, or create an itinerary?

Take, for example, the special exhibition Palm Springs Modern: Photographs by Julius Shulman, organized by the Palm Springs Art Museum and touring the country. I caught it during its run at the Heinz Architectural Center in the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. This collection of 100 photographs explores some of the most intriguing examples of cutting-edge modernist architecture in Palm Springs, mainly from the late 1940s through the 1950s. As an architecture buff, this exhibition certainly has me thinking about visit to Palm Springs.
 
For more information specifically on modern architecture in Palm Springs see: 

http://architecture.about.com/od/usa/p/palmsprings.htm

http://www.psmodcom.com/

http://www.visitpalmsprings.com
 
 For Immediate Travel Action: special tours of modernist architecture in Palm Springs, CA are scheduled for January 22-24, 2010 and February 12-21, 2010.
 
 Another recent outstanding example of a museum exhibition that helps spawn travel ideas was the blockbuster Frank Lloyd Wright show at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, the centerpiece of that Wright-designed building’s 50^th anniversary celebration in 1959.
  
 The Museum of the City of New York has an exhibition, running through January 31, 2010, of the work of Eero Saarinen, whose signature works include the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC, the old TWA Terminal at JFK Airport in New York, and Ingalls Rink at Yale University in New Haven, CT, among others.
 
Additionally, photographic exhibitions at museums and art galleries often are excellent means for embarking upon vicarious tours of far-off places that you someday may wish to experience in person. Keep an eye out for listings in your area.
 
 

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