Museum Hopper

I have been working in Toronto and ended up traveling to Toronto early on Sunday.  I wanted to check in the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).  It has been on the list for a while! It is quite a large museum with a number of different of galleries within.  I tried to see most of the major ones.  I thought the medieval art was just beautiful.  They had a number of the prayer beads as well -- I could not believe how detailed they are.  My hands would be too clumsy for that.  This is one of the items below -- how intricate is it!   AGO is also known for their collection of model boats.  They are done to scale.  They range from Mayflower-esque ships to freight liners to military boats.  They had been bequeathed this collection -- they were fascinating.  The detail was extraordinary. Some of the modern art was too much for me.  One of the pieces of art was submersed in the lake and surprise, the art was decaying! The ...

after working for the last few months up in toronto, i finally got to the hockey hall of fame , which happened to be  basically   in my office building!  it had been a goal since the beginning of the  case! i ran upstairs to check out the stanley cup first and all of the other cups and trophies! it was much bigger than i expected. i loved seeing all the other awards.  the cup always remains the same height even as more and more teams win the cup and the hall of fame had a vault which had the earlier rings from the cup! downstairs, they have exhibits about some of the great hockey greats!  i got see displays about for gordie howe , steve yzerman , and bobby orr (my mother's favorite)!  i got to walk through an old replica locker room as well as look at old hockey memorabilia.  by this of course, i mean hockey playing cards and wheaties boxes!   i wish i had more time to see the information about the olympics. ...