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Write to us at startingpoint@globe.com. To subscribe, sign up here. TODAY’S STARTING POINTDon Johnson, right, and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo Tubbs appear in a scene from the 1980s television police drama "Miami Vice. "APOne of the many joys of having teenage roommates is discovering that your wardrobe is actually a costume closet, and you, unfortunately, have a solution for everything. “Do you have a Hawaiian shirt I can wear for ‘Tropical Day’ at school?”“Heavens, no. Wait … maybe. Actually, I have a few options.”Spirit Week, which takes place each year in the run-up to Halloween at my older son’s high school, has become an annual reminder that I am old, and a closet pack rat. Closet being the key word, because any time I find myself staring at a circa 1991 CB ski parka, some small part of me thinks: “But I might need it.” Then ‘90s day’ will come along at school, and I get to shout “I told you so” at no one in particular.

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Model of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth, 1947-48Peabody Essex MuseumMassachusetts’ maritime history being what it is, not a few local museums have model ships in their collections. Among them are the Museum of Fine Arts, the Addison Gallery of American Art (which devotes its entire basement to its display), the Museum of Science, and the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Above and beyond their very considerable historical interest, museum-quality ship models are phenomenal works of craftsmanship and beautiful objects in their own right. How phenomenal, how beautiful? Consider the model of the Cunard ocean liner Queen Elizabeth owned by the Peabody Essex Museum. One of several hundred ship models in PEM’s collection, it’s 22 feet long, weighs 2,700 pounds, and was carved from a single 6-ton piece of mahogany. The detailing is remarkable. Made on a scale of a quarter-inch to a foot, the model boasts 900 handmade fittings and 1,700 portholes. If it were any more impressive, PEM might have to change its name to Peabody Essex Dock. Peabody Essex Museum, 166 Essex St., Salem. 978-745-9500, www.pem.org Claude Shannon, "Bounce juggler (W. C. Fields)," early 1980s.

Along the way, the museum is dedicating much of its gallery space to a series of wide-ranging exhibitions that highlight its idiosyncratic collection, while also offering free admission during the four-year festivities. Fitchburg Art Museum director Nick Capasso and deputy director and curator Emily Mazzola. Ken McGagh for The Boston GlobeThe celebrations’ through line, according to FAM’s director Nick Capasso, is the museum’s commitment to Fitchburg, a once-thriving industrial city that is looking to the arts to help revitalize its economy. “We have to do more than just have people come to the museum,” said Capasso. “We have to help with education in the city. We have to help with economic development. We have to feed kids.”That may be a broader mission than the museum’s founder, Eleanor Norcross, envisioned when she used her considerable collection — and finances — to establish the museum. But not by much. Norcross, who spent decades painting and collecting art in Paris, hoped that sharing her collection through the museum might bring “joy and inspiration” to the area’s mill workers and their families. Entrance to the Fitchburg Art Museum.