Museum Hopper

today i went to the forbes magazine gallery with a friend from college. i have wanted to go for a while since it's close to where i live and it's free! the museum though is not open on sundays, which has hampered me a little bit lately. so museum is very accessible. when we walked in, the security guard was arguing with a delivery guy. this was slightly awkward. i just wanted to ask where the bathroom was! we ended up going through the museum backwards although this did not matter much for this museum. they have some very unusual stuff. they have a collection of monopoly boards. some of these were custom made for the forbes family; others are just unusual. they have a huge collection of model boats including some of the sinking titanic. they had some sample battle scenes. now this is all fine and dandy and sort of cohesive. the other temporary exhibits in the museum were completely random. this was a bit confusing at first. they had a jewelry exhibit, kimono

i went to the fashion institute museum last week with my sister who was visiting. the museum is free, which is great. the museum was easy to get to and was really easy to navigate. it is very obvious where the front is and the exhibits flow very nicely. when we visited, it had two exhibits (we think). when we left the first exhibit though, it was not immediately apparent if we were another exhibit or the end of the museum. the first exhibit that we saw was called " arbiters of style: women at the forefront of fashion. " it focused on how women had affected the current fashion focusing primarily on female designers. the exhibit was chronological starting in the eighteenth century to the present. they had a variety of types of clothing ranging from wedding dresses to suits to day outfits to ball gowns. the outfits were very well selected and beautiful. even as someone with very little knowledge of fashion designers, i recognized the majority of the designers. thi

i went to the cloisters with my sister who was is currently in town. we took the subway. it was actually running as an express train, so it only took about 30 minutes to get up there. it was beautiful since all the flowers and the trees were out. it was relatively cool inside the museum, which was ideal since it was 98 degrees outside. another good visit. times visited: 2 average time in the museum: 2 hrs overall: A