Hey y’all, we wrote a book!
We’re thrilled to announce Museum Hack’s first-ever book: a collection of tales about the badass women who never made it into your high school history book.
Where To Eat Near The National Portrait Gallery
Hungry after your museum tour? Here are our suggestions for where to eat near the National Portrait Gallery.
Museum Hack Joins the Inc. 5000
Museum Hack is honored to be part of the Inc. 5000, which recognizes the fastest-growing companies in America.
John Dee: The Wizard of Tudor England
Occultist, blaspheming wizardry is in the eye of the beholder.
The King With a Lake of Wine (Or Three Crazy Stories About King Zhou)
What do you do when you’re king of China? Build a lake of wine and a forest of meat.
The Human Hunting Tsar (Or, Six of the Most Terrible Things Ivan the Terrible Did, Ranked in Order of Terribleness)
How does one earn the nickname “The Terrible”? We take a look at six of the worst crimes attributed to Ivan IV.
The Door to Hell
Sometimes, scientists do great things. Sometimes, they set manmade pits of natural gas on fire.
The Leg That Received a Funeral (Or, Four Things You Might Not Know about General Santa Anna)
The only thing more #extra than Santa Anna himself was the state funeral he ordered for his leg.
Elinor Powell: The African-American Nurse Who Fell in Love with a German POW
Sometimes if you want to meet someone, you gotta get sent to a wartime labor camp.
The Italian Zombies
You know what they say about the Neapolitan syphilitic zombie outbreak of 1495: if you remember it, you weren’t there.