Boston is a city of water – from the harbor to the Charles River to the brooks and ponds of the Fenway, you won't venture far without encountering something aquatic. So it stands to reason that the New England Aquarium (which is situated right on a …
Museums and zoos
Wherever this traveling family goes, we love to find great museums, zoos, and aquariums. Find stories here about family-friendly museums of all varieties from art to history to science. Join us as we meet animals at aquariums and zoos on multiple continents. You can filter posts by keyword or browse chronologically.
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- American Museum of Natural History
- Aquarium of the Pacific
- B&O Railroad Museum
- Billings Farm Museum
- Biltmore Estate
- Brandywine River Museum
- British Museum
- Delaware Children's Museum
- Delaware Museum of Natural History
- ECHO Center
- Eric Carle Museum
- Greenwich museums
- Hagley Museum
- Heard Museum
- Henry Vilas Zoo
- Madison Children's Museum
- Maryland Science Center
- Milton House Museum
- Musée d'Orsay
- Museum of Science in Boston
- National Canal Museum
- New England Aquarium
- Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education
- Oxford Museum of Natural History
- Page Museum
- Petersen Automotive Museum
- Philadelphia Zoo
- Please Touch Museum
- The Magic House
- The National Zoo
- Tower of London
- Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
The magic of trains at the B&O Railroad Museum
December 15, 2011 Leave a comment »
From the very first time Tommy encountered a train table at a toy store in Stoke Newington, the London neighborhood where we spent a month in 2003, he was hooked on all things locomotive. Since he was our first born, this meant that for a number of …
Dreaming of dinosaurs in Baltimore
December 12, 2011 3 reader comments
Let's just get this out in the open right now: Despite the fact that I live an hour away from Baltimore and have done so over a decade, until last week I had no idea that the Maryland Science Center even existed. We've been to the Franklin Institute …
Diving into museums
October 21, 2011 5 reader comments
Despite the fact that I spent the last four days writing about museums, going back through my photos made me realize the number of museums we've visited that I still have to write up! There's the Birds of Vermont Museum, the Arizona-Sonora Desert …
The story of Currituck at the Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education
October 20, 2011 Leave a comment »
Welcome to Museum Week at The Mother of All Trips. This week I’m profiling some museums – both new to us and old favorites – that my family has visited over the past few months and which I haven’t yet written about on the blog. If you like …
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