I spent a day downtown Indianapolis to meet up with some friends. It started off with getting up before the sun rose to ride with my cousin on his way to work and to be dropped of in the circle(Monument Circle which is a circle road that goes around the Soldiers and Sailors Monument downtown Indianapolis). I [...]
Category: museums
Virginia-Belle Grove Plantation
Belle Grove Plantation is a historic 1797 Manor House that housed Major Issac Hite and his family along with the land. The site is broken into two parts, the house and the land. The house has a paid tour of the indoor space, none of which is air conditioned and it also includes a film that [...]
Saint Louis- The City Museum
Before we left our super short trip to Missouri and cutting my trip with my sisters remarkably short we made a quick stop to the City Museum. The City Museum was created by an artist of international acclaim, Bob Cassilly who with the help of 20 artists opened the doors in 1997. The museum use [...]
LUMA: Loyola University Museum of Art and Edward Gorey
Loyola University museum of Art is located at 820 North Michigan Avenue. My department began to murmur about Edward Gorey a couple months before the exhibit opened up at Loyola. Edward Gorey was an artist and writer born in Chicago. He's most well known for his pen and ink books and illustrations such as "Vinegar [...]
Adler Planetarium
When I was little I wanted to be an astronaut, every summer I built rockets to shoot off into the sky. I loved going to space and flight museums so Adler has been on my to do list for awhile. I finally found both free time and a free day to go, found a friend [...]
Petřín Tower
My trip to the Petřín was a solo trip, the first one I did in Prague, and one full of misadventures. I love exploring but I like to have at least one other person with me, especially in places where I don't know the language. My trip to the Petřín started with a troublesome tram ride. When no [...]
Noc Kostelu and Noc Museum
One of the events that one of our teachers told us about while we were in Prague was Noc Kostelu, Night of Churches. On this night many churches throughout the city are open for free. Usually the churches cost money to go into and look around. So Noc Kostelu is a great way to get [...]
Chicago Cultural Center
The Chicago Cultural Center is located at 78 East Washington Street. The Cultural Center has been around since 1897 and use to be the Chicago Public Library. Today it is a free to enter museum of sorts. It's open daily from 9am until 7pm, except on weekends (Fridays through Sundays) when it closes an hour earlier. [...]
Communist Museum
One of my teachers took our class, a very small class of four, to Prague's Communist Museum. The Communist Museum is located between a McDonalds and a casino. It isn't an expensive museum includes a replica of an interrogation room, items from classrooms, uniforms, statues, art, and what life was like. It starts with the [...]
Franz Kafka Museum
One of the things we did in Prague as a group was have do a lot of things related to Franz Kafka. Franz Kafka was a novelist we studied while we were in Prague and whom we were all familiar with from earlier in our studies. One of the first things we did for our [...]