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Toy Train Museums

FunHunter — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:18:54 +0000

Toy train museums are stores and display centers of toy railroad equipment, locomotives and cars. For instance, the Toy Train Depot, in Alamogordo, New Mexico, is a railroad museum that exclusively features a collection of scale models of assorted train locomotives, passenger and freight trains, train engines and the like. Having fun at a [...]

Barnum Museum

FunHunter — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:13:07 +0000

Would you like to see a 1,000-square-foot miniature replica of P. T. Barnum’s circus as handcrafted by William Brinley? Would you like to see Tom Thumb, arguably Barnum’s finest act? Would you like to see a 2500-year-old Egyptian mummy, already authenticated by the Quinnipiac University? Are you biased towards academia, and would appreciate a [...]

Finest Teddy Bear Museums

FunHunter — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:06:26 +0000

Teddy bear museums are really an overwhelming experience. These are places where you can totally be submerged with emotions, fun having hit the crescendo of perfection. Spending time around hundreds of teddy bears can melt the heart and touch the essence of your humanness, adult as you are. For the past 100 years, the [...]

Harley Davidson Museum

FunHunter — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:53:19 +0000

Museum fun continues to appeal to thousands of people today, becoming a major tourism attraction all over the world. Consequently, fun museums have sprouted up in the last three decades to feature just about anything conceived of man or even natural phenomena that have a mystic value. Motorcycles too, in this very decade have [...]

Doll Museum Fun

FunHunter — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:54:11 +0000

Many of the world’s leading doll museums are exclusively dedicated to preserving and exhibiting the doll phenomenon. They uphold the art form that most people, young and old alike, enjoy looking at and sometimes touching affectionately. If you want to sample the fun at a doll museum, there are so many online sites dedicated [...]

Miami Museum Of Science

FunHunter — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:48:56 +0000

The Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium has made exploring science a fun activity, by delicately and creatively embossing museum fun with scientific projects and demonstrations. Older children in their early or late teens desperately need a reawakening today to embrace science as the driving force that will firmly root America in [...]

Austin’s Spam Museum

FunHunter — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:38:25 +0000

Canned meat, Spam, is a part of the American heritage. It was the main food during the Second World War and during the tough years of the Depression. The Spam Museum is actually an innovatively renovated K-Mart building. The original K-Mart structure has however been completely run over by Spam renovations. What remains of [...]

Dinosaur Museums

FunHunter — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:29:58 +0000

Dinosaurs are essentially huge creatures that roamed the earth millions of years ago, according to the studies and research carried out by anthropologists and other scientists. The fact is, the mystery surrounding the dinosaur history is one of complete ignorance and misinformation. The current mass media forms have further perpetuated this misinformation with crafty [...]

Hartford’s Trash Museum

FunHunter — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:17:26 +0000

Did you know that Connecticut has a green movement achievement braced in museum fun? The three major Connecticut cities send their collected trash to Hartford’s Trash Museum. This trash is used to generate green energy. For instance, last year (2008), Hartford’s Trash Museum plant and the other three plants under CRRT generated over 1.9 [...]

Toy Museums

FunHunter — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:15:54 +0000

Toys museums are simply fun museums that stock an assortment of toys on a particular theme. Toys have become more and more innovative over the years and they have become a representation or even a role model for children in particular cultures. The Barbie Doll in America is perhaps the greatest doll toy of [...]

Top Ten World Summer Music Festivals

FunHunter — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:26:29 +0000

The ten main festivals that make the whole world light up with fun and excitement every summer are:

1. Rock al Parque festival

The festival takes place in Bogot·, the capital city of Colombia and has been on since 1995. This is the largest festival in the entire South American continent. The first festival [...]

The World Sacred Music Festival

FunHunter — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:24:22 +0000

There is always a special aura that descends upon a venue that hosts sacred cultures blended into distinct styles and genres of music. The feeling is ecstatic, somber and deeply enriching, especially in terms of spiritual nourishment. That is an approximate description of what the World Sacred Music Festival is about. After every three [...]

The Sitka Summer Music Festival Extraordinaire

FunHunter — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:22:06 +0000

For three consecutive weeks, the Sitka summer festival brings all the music in the world into one place for summer enthusiasts. Founded in 1972 by the world renowned violinist, Paul Rosenthal, it is one of the greatest summer attractions of Alaska. The festival is taken to the remote areas of Alaska, where natives and [...]

The Roskilde Festival in Denmark

FunHunter — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:19:16 +0000

Roskilde festival is the brainchild of Jesper Switzer and his friend Mogens Sandfær. Their promoter Carl Fischer also takes some of the credit for being behind the inspiration that saw the students succeed in their ambitious project. The Roskilde Foundation took over the running of annual events a year after the festival was founded. [...]

The Lollapalooza Music Festival

FunHunter — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:16:38 +0000

The word “Lollapalooza” stems from an American idiom referring to a remarkable person or thing. That is the idea that the event organizer had in naming one of the finest band music festivals of all time. The term insinuates a very large lollipop, the kind that is represented on the logo. Such great fun [...]

The Four Corners Festival, Campus Summer Fun

FunHunter — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:14:44 +0000

Being a leading campus festival across the continents, the annual Four Corners Festival held at the Millersville University in Millersville is the classiest in its league. The festival is held at the shores of the Millersville University’s world famous swan pond, picturesque in shape and ambience. It collects an impressive cast from renowned artists [...]

Novi Sad EXIT Festival in Serbia

FunHunter — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:11:30 +0000

The EXIT festival starts on the second week of every July. The genres of music that feature here are rock, dance, electronica, techno, hip hop, punk and progressive. This live music fun, which is widely known by the name State of EXIT festival, takes place at Petrovaradin Fortress in Serbia, a picturesque setting that [...]

The Best Cities for a Wild Nightlife

FunHunter — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:08:59 +0000

Many people move from their home country to visit foreign countries in search great fun. Traveling is usually done during the day with the arrangement of flights to various destinations being scheduled for night arrivals. This therefore demands that you know the cities which can facilitate an enjoyable night. At other times, you are [...]