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Where To Take The Kids? The Columbus Museum Of Art

8/28/2018

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...Continued from 8/24/2018:    
      As the weather forecast for Thursday during my children's and grand children's visit was rain all day, we decided to visit the Columbus Museum of Art for the afternoon,

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...or as much of the afternoon as the children would abide.
     However a visit to the art museum turned out to be a more splendid idea than I'd imagined, as, unbeknownst to me, (and unlike during the era when my children were very young) the museum now offers a variety of fun and interesting children's exhibits and activities designed to keep even young children engaged, as were ours,  for hours.
     We decided to start with lunch at the Schokko Cafe, the museum restaurant, 

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...named after the painting "Shokko With Red Hat," by Alexej von Jawlensky, one of the museum's permanent holdings.
       The restaurant was beautiful on the inside - Maria said she felt like she was back in a California restaurant -
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...the food was delicious edible art,
     Avocado toast with edible flowers
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    Mushroom quiche
     Grilled cheese
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...and the staff was super-friendly.
     After lunch I went to the ticket counter to buy tickets. I asked, as Tom and I always do at every cultural or entertainment venue we patronize, if there was a discounted price for retired military.
     Turned out that there was, not only for Tom and me but for our whole family - admission was free for us all. And, because we'd eaten at the museum restaurant, we were entitled to free parking as well.
      We entered the museum and immediately found ourselves in a hallway lined with children's activities,

...including bendable sculpture-making materials,
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...supplies and instructions for making a moving picture,
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...and a zoetrope in which one could place one's drawings to make them "move."
     There was a mobile-building station,
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...and one for making Post-it Note art,
...where there were some pretty impressive Post-it Note creations on display.
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     There was also a station for drawing whatever one felt like drawing.
      There was a neat Star Wars exhibit,
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...with some interesting displays,
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...and a table at which one could make an alien mask.
     But the best of the children's exhibits was a textiles display with an amazing yarn environment,
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....where we made some pipe cleaner critters,
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...to add to the critter display.
     We spent a some time strolling around the museum looking at the other art.
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      Then we headed back home,
...where the girls were in the mood to do some more art.
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...until it was time for dinner, which included mini-raviolis, tomatoes from our garden,
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...and my Cherry Almond Streusel Pie (See post from 12/12/2016),
...and for which we were joined by Tommy, Emily and Randy.
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    Then after dinner we all took a rest.
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Check out my open mic book talk on "Equal and Opposite Reactions" and the writing life at the Authors at the Loft event in Columbus, Ohio
https://www.facebook.com/yourbookmybook/videos/2110468309210724/
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Equal and Opposite Reactions is available at Amazon
http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
and barnesandnoble.com



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