Museum Hopper

After lunch, we headed to the American Sign Museum .  I had never been and I had heard good things.  The museum is over on the west side in the industrial area of town.  We have not been over there much.   We used our ArtsWave pass to get a "buy one, get one" tickets.  The museum is rather expensive.  It was $15 per ticket, which is more expensive than the Art Museum and just about as expensive as the Zoo.  It doesn't necessarily have the legacy of either of those institutions. We arrived around 2:30 and caught the last 30 minutes of the tour.  I do recommend trying to catch a tour.  Ironically the museum does not have great signage -- or at least, it has a lot of it.  That being said, it has a lot of individually labeling, but I liked the tour highlighted the key elements of the museum and tied it together.  The tour highlighted the macro trends in signage (who knew such a thing existed).  And given my reaction of "w...

Over Easter weekend, we spent a rainy Saturday visiting museums with my parents.  First, we headed to the Taft Museum of Art .  I figured we would start there while my husband was wrapping up his workout and he could meet up with us later. We started with the special exhibit, Winslow Homer to Georgia O'Keeffe: American Paintings from the Phillips Collection .  It had a beautiful set of paintings.  My mother was drawn to the Edward Hopper like a moth to a flame.  One of my favorites was this spring painting of Washington Park. This was one of our favorites as well.  The dramatic sea and storms are drawn with the broad brush strokes. On the trip, we had enough time to go through museum.  The rest of the museum is the house of the Taft family.  Like the Frick , the Taft family planned on converting the house into a museum.  The art is very livable.  It even has a Goya -- although they may not have known it was a Goya at the ti...