Visitors will be welcomed this year to 10 must-see museums opening up around the world. From a museum dedicated to artificial intelligence, West African art, barbeques and more find out what's new to explore!

Of specific note in the United States, be sure to consider these in your travel plans:

🇺🇸 Museum of BBQ in Kansas City, Missouri

🇺🇸 Dataland in Los Angeles, California

🇺🇸 National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas

For more details: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/ten-must-see-museums-opening-around-the-world-in-2025-180985814

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Singers, songwriters and musicians join together with Soundwaves Art Foundation to give back to causes across the globe. AND, music lovers like you can get in on the action. From the Rolling Stones, to Peter Gabriel, Pink, and everyone in-between, these collaborations create signed soundwave art that gives back to a variety of impactful charities.

PS - Peter Gabriel is the latest artist to collaborate with them, with artwork supporting the WOMAD Foundation. This foundation provides grants to those using music, art, and dance.....so be sure to check it out!

🎵 Learn more about their collaboration AND all of the amazing charities that are benefiting from these collaborations. https://soundwavesartfoundation.com/

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Become a virtual volunteer with the Smithsonian Institute.  Digital Volunteers are needed to help make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible.  

Join other "volunpeers" to add more to the total 978,402 pages of field notes, diaries, ledgers, logbooks, currency proof sheets, photo albums, manuscripts, biodiversity specimens labels, and historic audio recordings, that have been collaboratively transcribed.

👉 For more information:  https://transcription.si.edu/tips   

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