Museum Hopper

i really wanted to visit the molly brown house .  i felt like we had been when i was in denver before and it turns out that i had!   molly brown is the wife of a man who struck gold in the denver gold rush at the turn of the 19th century.  she went on to be a colorado congress woman and was nicknamed the "unsinkable" molly brown as she was one of the few who survived the Titanic.   the house is a traditional Victorian built in the stylish part of town back then.  i loved how they were able to restore it using (very) old photographs of the rooms.  it was fantastic to see how they were able to find similar pieces or get them back from the estate.   i thought the bedrooms were the most interesting.  seeing how similar they are to ours now, but also so different in some ways.  there really have been no major changes in the bathroom in over 100 years!   i thought the shop was pretty well done too.  i ended up even getting someth...

as we were heading out of town, for jason, we went to the wings over the rockies air and space museum .  we think it was in an old air force hangar.   the museum was in one huge open space with lots of airplanes. my husband liked some of the airplanes, but was a little disappointed at the overall quality of the planes.  he wished there had been some older planes (war birds).  all of the planes were flown in the Vietnam War or more recently.  we did get to see a Burt Rutan plane though!  jason always likes seeing those!  rutan was honored by the museum and that made jason very proud.     behind the planes, there were a variety of small rooms with particular focuses like uniforms of pilots and nose art.  the rooms were a little dated, but the quality of the material was strong.  i had seen a lot of nose art from world war II, and so it was interesting to see some of the more recent art.  it seems that nose art has dwin...

my husband and i visited the  denver art museum   on our second day in denver.  we really enjoyed it!   the building itself seems like a piece of art.  it is so cool.  i loved the angles and interesting windows.  Each window frames a view of the denver and the surrounding areas. we started at the top of the castle looking portion of the museum.  they had an interesting variety of art work.   each floor in the tower was a very manageable set of art.  i really liked the american art that they had as well as the first nations artifacts.   i also really liked that each floor had sitting areas and places for children to interact with the art!  each sitting area was "themed" to the floor.  we loved peeking out of each window to get a beautiful view of the mountains and denver. we did not go the special exhibit, but it looked fantastic.   overall, it was a great visit.  we loved the sculptural b...