Contemporary art, in particular, can benefit from a museum's stamp of approval.
(Ages 10 to 14) Together with a handful of explorers and presidents, a select band of inventors make up the equivalent of royalty for America's children, the heroes thrust upon us early and often via public television shows, museum exhibits, postage stamps and armloads of books.
The music enshrined in museums, on postage stamps and in Ken Burns documentaries sounded smug.
In Washington DC, where we make a special effort to embrace and celebrate our shared history, we have museums for postage stamps, textiles, news, medicine and spies.
But at least one arbiter has now given the museum an unqualified stamp of approval.
RETURN TO SENDER The city's new stamp museum, Museo de Filatelia de Oaxaca (Reforma 504, 52-951 516-8028; mufisorg.mx), is a fitting send-off.
His stamp museum in the city of Oaxaca opened a baseball-related exhibition in May, with stamps borrowed from Peter O'Malley, also a Padres owner and a former Los Angeles Dodgers owner.
We left the town hall and, after a stop at the stamp museum, dropped by a clothing boutique run by a woman named Fanny, who was from Benin.
Since her death, Canada has bestowed honours on her, including schools named after her, monuments, a museum, a memorial stamp and coin, and a statue at the Valiants Memorial in the Canadian capital.
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