museum Archives - Just Go Places Culinary and Cultural Travel Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:50:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Kid-Friendly Minneapolis Sculpture Garden https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/kid-friendly-modern-art-at-the-minneapolis-sculpture-garden/ Wed, 20 May 2015 06:02:00 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=8299 My tour guide, Sunny, was an older woman with an infectious enthusiasm about Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, specifically.  Sunny by name, sunny by nature I thought. Too bad her name was definitely not reflected in the grey and hazy morning weather.  If it weren’t for the humidity I would have felt like I...

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]]> How The Inquisition Made Friends and Influenced People https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/how-the-inquisition-made-friends-and-influenced-people/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/how-the-inquisition-made-friends-and-influenced-people/#respond Thu, 30 Apr 2015 05:00:28 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=8154 And, the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan Although Thomas Hobbes was writing about the conditions of war in 1651 not much had changed since medieval times.  Life was even nastier and shorter if you caught the attention of the Inquisition.  The ecclesiastical body set up by the Catholic...

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]]> Family Fun at Hever Castle & Gardens in Kent England https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/family-fun-at-hever-castle-gardens/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/family-fun-at-hever-castle-gardens/#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:00:23 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=7696 Hever Castle is famous for being the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII.  More recently, Hever Castle is renowned for its gorgeous gardens and its family-friendly attractions.  Now run as a private enterprise, we discovered there is lots of family fun to be had at Hever Castle and gardens. Hever...

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]]> https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/family-fun-at-hever-castle-gardens/feed/ 0 Remembering Racism and War Hysteria At Heart Mountain Japanese Internment Camp https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/heart-mountain-japanese-internment-camp/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/heart-mountain-japanese-internment-camp/#respond Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:00:17 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=7722 Turning off the highway, we drove up and down an isolated road trying to find the Heart Mountain Interpretative Center.  The land was flat and unremarkable. The sun beat down on the parched earth.  It really felt like the middle of nowhere. I can imagine that was exactly how the Japanese-Americans who arrived at the...

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]]> https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/heart-mountain-japanese-internment-camp/feed/ 0 Exploring Dublin’s Viking and Medieval Past at Dublinia https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/dublinia-in-dublin/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/dublinia-in-dublin/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2015 07:00:53 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=7683 Isn’t it great when you accidentally discover something that makes your trip memorable?  We had that experience at Dublinia, a Viking and medieval heritage museum next door to Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin.  When we got to Christ Church Cathedral, there was a Mass being conducted and so we had time to wander around.  Dublinia...

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]]> https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/dublinia-in-dublin/feed/ 0 Not Even The Pretense of Separate But Equal https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/not-even-the-pretense-of-separate-but-equal/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/not-even-the-pretense-of-separate-but-equal/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:00:27 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=6973 You can’t visit South Africa without delving into its recent past. Well, I guess you could but that would be missing a fairly integral part of what makes the country what it is today. We had explained apartheid to our children but it didn’t really hit home until our guide from Green Apple Tours told us...

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]]> https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/not-even-the-pretense-of-separate-but-equal/feed/ 0 The Castle of Good Hope For the Lucky Few https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/the-castle-of-good-hope-for-the-lucky-few/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/the-castle-of-good-hope-for-the-lucky-few/#respond Fri, 02 Jan 2015 09:52:06 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=6917 You know I’m a sucker for English castles, Welsh castle ruins, French chateaux, Austrian forts and even American reconstructed castles, right?  It’s the history buff in me as well as the die hard romantic.  So when I heard there was a castle in Cape Town, we had to go visit. The Castle was built by the Dutch...

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