Join us every Sunday for games inspired by museums and collections.
This week’s participating museums: Air Force Space & Missile Museum, Akron Art Museum, Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Black Belt Museum, Canadian Museum of History / Musée canadien de l’histoire, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Cumberland Heritage Village Museum, Eastern State Penitentiary, Erie Canal Museum, Genesee Country Village & Museum, Georgia Museum of Art, Joliet Area Historical Museum and Old Joliet Prison, Lynn Museum, Pueblo Grande Museum, Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Stories of Lynn, The Wolfsonian–FIU
Play online or download the PDF. (Last week’s answers)
Across
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Card or Mail order
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Green Bay or Art
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The duchess of where opened the Ancient House Museum in 1924? Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life has a hint.
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The mighty ____ rocket began as America’s first intercontinental ballistic missile, but ended up launching four crewed Project Mercury missions into space in the early 1960s. The Air Force Space & Missile Museum has more.
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Hangs on a gallery wall
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Civil War era “texting” code. Learn more at the Genesee Country Village & Museum.
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Material used to collect maple sap or make canoes. More at the Canadian Museum of History / Musée canadien de l’histoire.
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Apex predator of the Cretaceous oceans and recent co-star in the Jurassic World movies. Black Belt Museum can give you a hint.
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Serial number for collections
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Codex
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Makes galleries look good
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Citation entry
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This crooner’s love of Levi’s gave rise to the term “Canadian tuxedo.” The Contemporary Jewish Museum has more.
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An object made or used by a human being. Pueblo Grande Museum has many.
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The Kings Lynn Archive holds quarter sessions listing which Witchfinder as a witness? Learn more at the Stories of Lynn.
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Maker of exhibitions
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A place to get art
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What type of oil powdered the lamps at St Margaret’s Church in Kings Lynn until 1829? Lynn Museum has a hint.
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Now shrinking around the globe, they dramatically impacted life in the Pleistocene and shaped the geography of the Great Plains. Learn more at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum.
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Early 20th century Swedish artist, whose abstract paintings predate Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian, and Klee but only recently received international attention. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) can give you a hint.
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Brother to Elwood: Joliet _______. Learn more at the Joliet Area Historical Museum and Old Joliet Prison.
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This German emigre who designed a desk and chair in the Wolfsonian collection was also the architect and designer of the Walt Disney studios in Burbank. Learn more at The Wolfsonian–FIU.
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The work of museum curators
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You can make this environmentally themed craft out of two toilet paper rolls with a little imagination. The Georgia Museum of Art has instructions.
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Keeper of a museum’s history
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In printing, when you run out of letters you are out of this. Synonym for unhappy or unwell. Explore Cumberland Heritage Village Museum for more.
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Resides at the bottom of a page
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Card or score
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This famous Victorian-era author visited North America in 1842 to see Niagara Falls and Eastern State Penitentiary.
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Flat-bottomed boat that travels on natural and artificial waterways. Explore the Erie Canal Museum for a hint.