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Nelson-Atkins Museum chooses design for $170M expansion. Here’s the new look
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s board of trustees has made a decision: Kansas City’s premier art museum, centered in a Beaux-Arts building about to hit 92 years old, is expanding to the west with a ...
The Neoplan Jumbocruiser Was a Double-Decker Slinky Bus for Over 100 Passengers
In the 1970s, a Stuttgart-based bus manufacturer named Neoplan had a novel idea: What about doing both? The end result was a ...
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From Ravensbrück to freedom: The story of Sweden’s daring ‘White Bus’ rescue
In April 1945, as Nazi Germany is on the brink of defeat, the Swedish Red Cross launches the largest rescue operation of ...
Glimpses of the Final Frontier at the American Museum of Natural History
Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...
Why art deco is back (and even Elon loves it)
Minimalist furniture is out, opulent interiors are in, as sales of home decor inspired by the French 20th century aesthetic ...
Mobile museums in Berkshire County became a key educational tool. Now federal funding is gone.
Despite living in the picturesque backdrop once home to Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Norman Rockwell, ...
The old Eagles bus atop the former Northeast Philly Paintarama is gone after building sale: ‘That was our whole world’
The Eagles bus, once painted green and white and hoisted atop a Northeast Philly building to honor of a failed voyage to ...