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Travel Tip: Media Buff Travel

Locations in this article:  Los Angeles, CA

If you’re a media history buff, there are several places around the U.S. get your fix, whether you’re into film, radio and even photography.

The old Museum of Television and Radio in New York is now called the Paley Center for Media, and it has one of the top media collections in the world. We’re talking more than 120,000 TV shows, commercials and radio programs that you can watch on your own time.

Not traveling to the East Coast? The Center also has a branch in Beverly Hills, where you can view historic archives, attend screenings and participate in live Q&As with celebrities and directors.

If regional films are your thing, you want to head to Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, Maine. This little facility has more than 3,000 archival films and videos.

And here’s something you don’t see every day: it also holds the largest collections of amateur films and home movies in North America. And while there’s no shortage of photographs hanging in museums, the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, is a little different.

This place shows the history of photography, with more than 400,000 images dating back to the invention of photography. Oh, and George Eastman himself? He was the founder of Kodak.

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