Friday five: Museums

1. What is the best painting you've ever seen in a museum or art gallery? I can't say it was the best, but one of my most favorites would be a canvas I think was called "Angelic Choir" by Ron Newman, showing at the local art museum. It was a style I don't usually care for much, very abstract and layered oils, but the colors... For loosely similar reasons, the month that The Winds Cafe had Genari's flowers up on the walls was a very good one.


2. What was the most interesting display you've seen in a museum setting? The dinosaur skeleton displays at the Natural History museum; the dioramas were pathetic, but the bones totally rocked, especially when you're three feet high. The very best part, though, was the iron lions outside the front doors, which were just the right size to ride.


3. Have you ever been to a Children's museum? If so have you been as a child and/or as an adult? If so did you find it more interesting as you were older? I've always liked hands-on museums, at any age. I have to admit, my tolerance for shrieking tykes has gone down as I get older, but when we've got a display to ourselves it's still huge fun.


4. What is the most important thing you learned in a museum? Check your backtrail markers as you go.


5. What is your most memorable trip to a museum? That's actually kind of hard to say; any museum has its own memorable parts, which may be a mural or a staircase or the first time you saw a soap bubble that big. But the Detroit Institute of Arts definitely holds many fond memories, as does the Science Center across the way.