A Fun Saturday Museum-Going

Today Victoria (a fellow intern) and I decided to visit a couple of museums in the downtown area. We were planning on going to the Museum of Contemporary Art, but for various reasons postponed that adventure for another Saturday. Instead, we went to the Molly Brown House Museum and the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art.








Images of the House on 1340 Pennsylvania

Did you know that Molly Brown is actually Margaret Brown? The writer of the musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown changed her name because he thought it was more lyrical. We had an amazing tour guide, whose theatrical personality and story-telling abilities made the tour come to life.

Below you will find images of the Kirkland Museum. Nestled in the studio of artist Kirkland, this museum is an aesthetic overload. Victoria and I discussed it's parallels to Cabinets of Curiosities, as well as it's use of visible storage. Not my favorite museum. Buck and Gilmore would have cried at the lack of an HVAC system, open doors leading to a patio, and paintings hung outdoors.




Kirkland's studio. Those straps were used to hold Kirkland as he was adding his famous overlay of dots to his canvases.

The Day Buck and Gilmore Died