Museum Hopper

While in New Orleans, we visited two of the state museums.  This is the one we went to second.  We went with my parents, my sister, her husband and their two children (four and two).  This museum focuses on the history of New Orleans.   I will say overall, this museum was really beautiful.  I could imagine some awesome cocktail hours overlooking the square here! This museum seemed a little more tired than the one that Jason and I had visited the day before with the exception of the second floor.  The second floor seemed to have been edited.  It was also more interactive and engaging than the other floors.  My niece and nephew definitely enjoyed it the most.  My nephew wished that the video on the pirates would "have more" aka was longer!  They also enjoyed playing the drum.  I really enjoyed the large painting on the second floor of a battle -- on the painting, it was highlighted which were the key elements to pay attention to throughout the painting.  I liked that it dre

Recently, my husband and I traveled to New Orleans for a wedding!  What a fun city for a party!  On our second day, we went to the Louisiana State Museum - The Presbytere .   This museum has two main sections: Hurricane Katrina and Mardi Gras, each on their own floor.  I will say overall, this museum was really beautiful.  I could imagine some awesome cocktail hours overlooking the square here! The first floor provided context and details about when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond .   It walks the visitor through the lead-up to New Orleans.  Unfortunately, the atrocities that occurred were due to a number of factors.  The exhibit highlights the construction, engineering failures of the levees.  It seemed as though bad decisions were compounded through more bad decisions (e.g., materials choice, design choices).   The lack of preparedness of the groups that should have been prepared (e.g., federal, state, city resources) was astounding.

Okay, so going to quickly skip over our trip to New Orleans to wrap up my Cincinnati blog posts! I headed to the Cincinnati Art Museum by myself on Friday to participate in the Cinco de Mayo Frida celebration.  While I would give the Frida celebration mixed reviews, I really did enjoy the opportunity to walk through the special exhibit, Tiffany Glass: Painting with Light and Color.   It is a special exhibit that was created by the  The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York City -- basically a private collection by the Neustadt family.  It appears that they also curate exhibits, which are loaned out to create awareness and interest in Tiffany glass .  The exhibit was a very manageable size -- about three main rooms.     I loved that the also had an guide available.  Bring your own headphones, use the museum wifi and watch the youtube videos that have been created to go with the exhibit.  As a preview, the videos are available  here . I learned so much about

Just recently, my husband and I headed to the Cincinnati Museum Center to check out the Viking exhibit, Vikings: Beyond the Legend , before it left. The museum center is in the old Cincinnati train station, a truly iconic Cincinnati building.  As of right now, it is heavily under construction.  The only parts of the museum that were open were the children's museum and this special exhibit.   When we arrived, I said we had a Cincinnati Art Museum membership, which was supposed to get us a discount (almost half off our tickets).  The worker did not believe there was any discount with that, but had to be corrected by another employee.  I believe this has been in place for almost a year, so that's surprising.  She even made a comment that she had turned down someone before.  I was grateful for that as it basically halved the price of the tickets from $25 per person to ~$13.   I did not find exhibit warranted a $25 price tag.  While enjoyable, it really just had a number of