{"id":196,"date":"2015-07-03T04:04:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T04:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2022-12-26T16:01:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T16:01:30","slug":"the-superman-museum-in-metropolis-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/the-superman-museum-in-metropolis-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"The Superman Museum in Metropolis, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Superman Museum (37.152684, -88.732646), or technically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supermuseum.com\">the Super Museum<\/a>, in Metropolis, Illinois, is both a museum dedicated to Clark Kent\/Superman and a comic book store\/souvenir shop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/superman-museum.jpg\" alt=\"Superman Museum\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/superman-museum.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/superman-museum-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Outside the brightly-colored (red, blue &#038; yellow of course) brick building you&#8217;ll find a phone booth (just in case Clark needs to change), a green car reminiscent of the car on the cover of Action Comics #1 (the debut of Superman) and some contraptions that let you take a photo of your head on Superman or Supergirl&#8217;s body. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phonebooth.jpg\" alt=\"Phone Booth\" width=\"338\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phonebooth.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phonebooth-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inside you&#8217;ll find a museum, and a comic book store skewed towards Superman and DC Comics. The best purchasable items are the glow-in-the-dark Kryptonite rocks and the Kryptonite candy. <\/p>\n<p>This Super Museum is worth a visit if you&#8217;re in the area, and I suppose it would be a must-visit destination for super-fans of Superman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Superman Museum (37.152684, -88.732646), or technically the Super Museum, in Metropolis, Illinois, is both a museum dedicated to Clark Kent\/Superman and a comic book store\/souvenir shop. Outside the brightly-colored (red, blue &#038; yellow of course) brick building you&#8217;ll find &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25],"tags":[54,40],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums","category-roadside-attractions","tag-54","tag-illinois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}