Looking Back a Move Forward in Airport Entertainment What do you get when you pair a terminally boring place (an airport) with an equally boring attraction (a museum)? Actually, you get something that proved to be quite a bit of fun. While transiting in San Francisco recently, in between scouring for elusive electrical outlets for my laptop and scanning the departures board for flights to Bangkok (I had 4 hours to kill), I happened upon the San Francisco Airport Museum. In their own words, here’s what it’s all about: “Since 1980, SFO Museum (SFOM) has presented the traveling public with exhibitions exploring art, history, anthropology, science, and popular culture in galleries throughout SFO’s terminals, SFOM has the distinction of being the first and only fully accredited museum located within an airport, and its success has inspired the initiation of arts programs in other airports nationwide. Nearly all of SFOM’s galleries are located presecurity and are accessible to the public year-round and twenty-four hours a day.” Rotating Exhibits The current rotating exhibit is entitled “Television: TV in the Antenna Age”, and since I’m a recovering boob-tube addict, I was like Lindsay Lohan in a jewellery shop. The displays and stories just drew me […]
