Enter Through The Gift Shop, and Exit Through Rescue: HI Surf

Yes, that's a real show title!

Gather round, ye Broads, for another edition of Enter Through the Gift Shop, a regular feature of this newsletter wherein we dig deep into the bowels of museum gift shops and emerge with their most delightful (or weird) (or both) offerings. Recently: The SPAM museum! The American Visionary Art Museum! Some random French place called the Louvre! Today, we’re heading to Vegas, baby, to visit the National Atomic Testing Museum, on the recommendation of fellow Broad Jessica P. Despite having been to Vegas many times in my life, I’ve not made it out to this museum, an oversight I plan to rectify the next time I visit Sin City, because it looks fascinating.

“The National Atomic Testing Museum (Atomic Museum), is a national science, history, and educational institution that tells the story of America’s nuclear weapons testing program at the Nevada Test Site. The Museum uses lessons of the past and present to understand better the extent and effect of nuclear testing on worldwide nuclear deter…