Foosaner Art Museum

A few weeks ago, I took the boys to Foosaner Art Museum.

It's right across the street from the library that we go to.

When we got there, it was storming. 

I handed the guy my debit card to pay for our admission, 

but he told me that they don't take cards....only cash!  

I only had $4.00 in cash on me.

Admission was $5.00 for me and $2.00/each for the boys.

So I was $5.00 short!

He said, "Since you guys braved this weather, go on in."

SWEET!!!!

I did give him the $4.00 I did have, though.  

This picture was taken from the truck when we 

were leaving.  It was no longer storming, but still

raining...you can see the rain drops in the picture.

This art museum was the smallest I had ever been in.

It was basically 2 rooms.

The main exhibit while we were there was called, 

"Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity"

Pulled from their website:
Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity, is an exhibition of works by 39 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society. American artists of African, Arab European, Asian, Latino and Native American descent explore their heritage using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, the struggle for acceptance, what it truly means to be an American in the twenty-first century.

The boys saw this 'scary picture' from afar and avoided this 

room, but eventually got the courage to get closer and check 

it out.  

After I took this picture I got a feeling that I wasn't supposed to be taking pictures in the art museum.  So I asked the guy that worked there that was staying close to us...like really close to us....maybe he wanted to be accessible in case we had questions....maybe he was bored...or maybe he was worried my boys would destroy the art.

I was not allowed to take pictures.  

Oops.  

The other exhibit was called, 

"Who Am I?  Self-Portrait Gallery"

Pulled from their site:  "Who am I? Self-Portrait Gallery is an exhibition of self-portraits created by children of all ages. The hands-on art activity is in conjunction with Infinite Mirror and echoes the themes of identity in the exhibition."

So this exhibit was created by all those who came through the

museum.    You got to draw your self-portrait and hang it up.

Here are the boys working on their self-portraits

that ended up NOT being self-portraits, but 

pictures of Angry Bird scenes.  

We collect magnets of all the places that we visit.  I have done this for years...even before marriage and kids.  This museum did have a little gift shop so we stopped in there to see if they sold magnets (I totally forgot that I didn't have any cash at this point to pay for it if they did).  I asked the lady working if they had magnets.  She didn't know so we both looked around the shop for them.  We did find them.  There were quite a few with no price tags on them.   I asked her how much for 'this one'...she said, "Oh, just take it.  I'm sure it can't be more than 50 cents."  SWEET!   So we got a museum visit for 3 and a magnet for our collection for a grand total of $4.00.