Art Museum of the Americas
March 2, 2008 at 11:35 pmDC, The National Mall, buildings, museums
We rode our BIcycles! BIcycles! down towards the National Mall today to check out whatever we could check out. This involved a venture into The Art Museum of the Americas to see the Mexico: Festival of Toys exhibit. (see creepy picture above). It was a kinda quirky little museum with only a few rooms, but there were some fun and colorful toys there in addition the scary skeleton thing. The spaces themselves were probably more interesting: some brightly painted niches in the curving stairway, a sunny hallway off the courtyard tiled in blue mosaic, and the courtyard itself - with empty swimming pool - that we couldn’t get outside to. There also happens to be a tall, rusty, yellow metal sculpture outside the entrance that I like because it reminds me of ribbon candy.
From there we walked towards the Albert Einstein memorial which is easily my favorite sculpture in DC for its hidden location among a grove of trees… By this time Matt had worked himself into a self-described “hot-dog frenzy” so we stopped at one of the vendor carts to indulge in $10 worth of (2) hot dogs. YUM.
Onward! to visit Mr. Lincoln sitting on his throne overlooking the Reflecting Pool. And finally after that re-collected our bikes and rode home.
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