The DC Traveler

The National Aquarium at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is one of the best aquariums I’ve ever visited.  It’s up there with some of the world’s best.
And as I mentioned couple days ago, I visited Baltimore with my niece and nephew recently and while there, we also toured the aquarium.
The 2 million gallon aquarium is home to over 600 species of fish, rays, sharks, and other marine life, including birds, penguins, amphibians and reptiles.
The aquarium is split into several major sections and levels. Some of the more interesting include:

Atlantic Coral Reef -  This area is most children’s favorite stop, as they get …read more

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You probably first saw your first team of flying trapeze artists at the circus or on television as a kid, and thought that only kids who run away to the circus will ever have the chance to fly through the air with the greatest of ease.

But in the past few years, aerial flying has gone mainstream. Some credit the child in all of us, who secretly wants to leave our responsibilities behind and run off to the circus. While others credit an episode of the HBO show, Sex and the City.  In it, Carrie, the show’s main character and relationship …read more

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It’s a race Wile E. Coyote or Rube Goldberg would probably enter –the tenth annual Kinetic Sculpture Race at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. And it’s one of the wackiest races in America.

Nicknamed the “Triathlon of the Art World“, and put on by the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, the race requires contestants to create a human-powered work of art machines that can travel on land, through mud, and over the water of the Inner Harbor. 

Sculptures must be human-powered, ground and amphibious capable, and custom built, just for the race.
Each Vehicle/watercraft/artwork must be constructed out of mostly …read more

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In April, I wrote about the controversial plastination human body exhibit here in Washington, DC, Bodies – the Exhibition.  The major controversy surrounding the exhibit were reports of questionable sourcing of Chinese bodies, for use in the preserved and skinless anatomical exhibit.  The claims were that many of the bodies were used in Bodies – the Exhibition were used without the legal consent of the deceased or their family.
A second competing and potentially less controversial exhibit, BODY WORLDS 2, now on display at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, has publicly stated that all bodies used in its …read more

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