A pervasive feature of the North American landscape – urban, suburban, rural – are museums of every size and purpose. From county historical societies or private hobby collections in small communities to major destination sites such as presidential libraries or national art museums, it is possible to organize trips almost entirely around museum hopping. Indeed, some of the common road trip planning tools like Roadtrippers can populate a whole route – town by town – with museums of every type. Museums have played a central role in our van travels, so what follows is a kind of informal museology – the formal study of museums – as seen from our van. What follows is only a subset of the extraordinary number of museums we have enjoyed.

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