Museum

In Paris’ 1st arrondissement, a new modern art museum, the Bourse de Commerce: Pinault Collection (2 rue de Viarmes; phone +33 1 55 04 60 60, www.pinaultcollection.com/en), opened May 22, 2021.

8-day, 7-night cruise on 264-passenger Ponant ship, April 15-22, 2022. Highlights: Embark in Kobe/in Takamatsu, Shikoku Mura open-air museum, Kandaka Shojuen bonsai garden/in Hiroshima, Peace Memorial Museum, Sake Brewery Street, Hiroshima Castle/Hagi Castle Town in Hagi/on Mishima Island, pottery workshop/in Busan, SOUTH KOREA, Haedong Yonggungsa Temple, Jagalchi Fish Market/sail to port of Moji, Japan, via Kanmon Straits/in Fukiya Furusato Village in Takahashi, Bengara Museum/Osaka. From $6,500 ppdo. Single supp., from $2,000.

Sedona, Arizona — with its red-rock buttes, steep canyon walls and pine forests — is a favorite destination for many folks.

When my wife, Anne, and I visited Sedona, Feb. 20-26, 2021, we stayed at the Arroyo Pinion Hotel (3119 W. Hwy. 89A; 928/204-1146, arroyopinion.com). Only 20 miles away via Highway 89A are two gems in Clarkdale worth visiting: the Copper Art Museum and the Verde Canyon Railroad.

Designed to resemble a merchant street from the 1950s, the Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum (2-14-21 Shinyokohama, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama-City, Japan; phone +81 45 471 0503, www.raumen.co.jp/english) serves ramen in the style of nine different regions of Japan from its “storefronts,” including a facsimile of Rairaiken, the first-ever ramen restaurant, opened in 1910, serving food based on the original recipes. The museum also includes a gallery of ramen history and offers noodle-making workshops.

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My husband, Bill, and I visited family in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in mid-October 2020.

A 2017 road trip from Calgary to Ottawa was part of our personal celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary. A highlight of that trip was Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During my one-week visit to the archipelago of Malta in February 2020, I realized that because there is so much to see and do there, it’s important for independent travelers to plan ahead and be efficient with their time. Despite its small size, this country has much to offer.

As a result of its strategic location, Malta has been controlled by or fought over by most Mediterranean powers during the past 3,000 years, among them the Carthaginians, Romans, Normans, Castilians and Abbasids.