AMERICA
ALABAMA - HARPER LEE - SCOTT FITZGERALD - HANK WILLIAMS SNR
(To Kill A Mockingbird)
Literary capital of Alabama is Monroeville, which has a trail based on the books To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee. (See more details in my previous post.)
Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald Museum in the last house occupied by Scott Fitzgerald and wife Zelda.
Hank Williams Snr's home in Georgiana.
CALIFORNIA - JACK LONDON -
(Call of the Wild)
http://jacklondonpark.com/jack-london-directions.html
I also went to Hearts Castle but didn't feel I learned much about Hearst, just about the venue.
COLORADO - MOLLY BROWN
Molly Brown, heroine of the Titanic
Molly Brown House, Pennsylvania Avenue, Denver. I felt I learned about her house, but not about the Titanic.
CONNECTICUT - MARK TWAIN HOUSE - NOAH WEBSTER
NOAH WEBSTER HOUSE, West Hartford (The Schoolmaster of America, wrote Webster's dictionary, reformed British English and created American spelling.)
FLORIDA - ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Author
Ernest Hemingway home and museum, Key West
GEORGIA - MARTIN LUTER KING JNR home
Atlanta, Georgia.
ILLINOIS - ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
(Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, Springfield)
MARYLAND - CLARA BARTON
(America's Florence Nightingale)
MASSACHUSETTS - CLARA BARTON Homestead (founder of American Red Cross)
MISSOURI - Mark Twain birthplace, Florida, Missouri.
PENNSYLVANIA - EDGAR ALLEN POE (Philadelphia)
TENNESSEE - ELVIS PRESLEY - JIM REEVES
(Elvis, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee)
(Jim Reeves, Nashville, Tennessee)
VIRGINIA - THOMAS JEFFERSON (Monticello) - GEORGE WASHINGTON (Mount Vernon)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello
Edgar Allen Poe Museum, Richmond
WEST VIRGINIA - PEARL S BUCK Birthplace, Hillsboro
NORTH, CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
MEXICO - KARL MARX.
MORE IN AMERICA
See real life and online Halls of fame - eg music, baseball; more places connected with Edgar Allen Poe, Elvis. Cemeteries such as the one with the statue of Al Jolson. Graves of Wild West folk heroes. Jewish Museums. Battlefields and wartime heroes and leaders. Songwriters. Car manufactures. Coca Cola, Hershey, Pizza. Painters. Founders of railways. Owners of departments stores and newspapers (Hearst in California). Food factories and drink: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Vermont.
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EUROPE
AUSTRIA - MOZART birthplace, Salzburg.
BELARUSSIA - CHAGALL.
DENMARK - HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Museum, Odense.
FINLAND - SIBELIUS museum.
FRANCE - CHAGALL. ZOLA/DREYFUS (Medan). PROUST trail.
GERMANY - BEETHOVEN (Bonn.)
IRELAND George Bernard SHAW birthplace museum, Dublin.
ISRAEL BIALIK museum, Tel Aviv. (Playwright, also established Hebrew as the national language, because it was the classical language of the bible, close to Aramaic and Arabic, although I would prefer Yiddish, more modern and fun, like German with a sense of humour, told by a comedian.)
ITALY - PUCCINI home, opera. Statue of the man with the cigar which no doubt killed him.
NETHERLANDS - ANNE FRANK HOUSE, Amsterdam; REMBRANDT.
NORWAY - IBSEN museum, Oslo.
POLAND - CHOPIN birthplace. (Also huge monument in Warsaw is passed by tours.)
SPAIN - DALI.
SWEDEN - JIM REEVES. STRINDBERG museum.
Jim Reeves Museum
http://www.jimreeves.se/Jim_Reeves_Museum_Sweden/Om_oss.html
UK - BRONTES; BYRON; Capt'n COOK; DAHL; D H LAWRENCE; T E LAWRENCE (of Arabia); FREUD; JIMI HENDRIX; HANDEL; KEATS; Beatrix POTTER; WORDSWORTH; SHAKESPEARE
Jimi Hendrix museum (opened 2016) and Handel museum (adjacent) in London, England. (See my previous post in this blog.)
Freud Museum, London.
Keats Museum, London.
Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford upon Avon; theatre in London, bust in church in London.
Also see Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, London.
Captain Cook birthplace, Marton, N Yorkshire.
Bronte Museum, Yorkshire.
CROMWELL Museum, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
Milton's Cottage, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks.
Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, Buckinghamshire.
Beatles Story, Liverpool.
WALES DYLAN THOMAS Boathouse and two more museums.
SCOTLAND - BURNS; SCOTT; DAVID LIVINGSTON (Dr Livingston, I presume?)
Sir Walter Scotts House, Waverley.
N IRELAND & Ireland:
George Bernard SHAW birthplace museum, Dublin.
JAMES JOYCE.
YEATS.
AFRICA - MANDELA
Home of Nelson Mandela, Soweto; also Robben Island. (More about Mandela in the Jewish museum. A Jewish friend bought a farm for Mandela to hide.)
ASIA
CHINA - SUN YAT SEN home, Shanghi. Also Hong Kong.
INDIA MAHATMA GANDHI Museum, Delhi. (Includes his polite letter to Hitler.)
THAILAND - Jim Thompson house, Bangkok. (American born Silk King.)
AUSTRALASIA
NEW ZEALAND KATHERINE MANSFIELD HOUSE.
MORE IN UK
Burns in Scotland; Wilberforce in Hull; JANE AUSTEN in Bath; DICKENS in London; ROTHSCHILD; ISRAELI; SASSOON.
More information from:
http://experience.usatoday.com/america/story/best-of-lists/2015/10/05/50-state-famous-americans-homes-museums/73410480/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton_Homestead
https://www.noahwebsterhouse.org/visiting/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Birthplaces_of_individual_people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen_Museum
http://gandhimuseum.org
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/ (Hull's Wilberforce Museum)
http://www.maisonzola-museedreyfus.com/uk/zola_uk.html
(Tourist Boards and citizens, if you have any suggestions please send them to me.)
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, researcher, author, speaker.
International Museum day is May 18.
Angela Lansbury, B A Hons, CL, ATG, author, researcher, travel writer and photographer, speaker.
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