The art museum is located in Forest Park and is free unless you want to see an exhibit. I chose to go through the exhibit: Symbols of Power~Napoleon. It was rather exciting and there was a lady giving a free tour and an audio so I could listen. But after that I went through the rest of the free galleries- this might have been the best part! I started with Pre-Columbian Art, went into Egyptian Rooms where they had two mummies that you could see the bodies! Then I went through the African pieces, up to my favorite area- Impressionism. I saw a Van Gogh piece- called Stairway of Auvers( which is what is shown) and then there were a few Picassos and Degas....and many others. My favorite was a painting by Modigliani. I had read a book about him and he is Italian and I didn't think I would run into one of his pieces here!! All in all, it was a great morning at the museum, a little cold inside, but it did reach 101 degrees today. So that is better than being out in that heat:)
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Ah yes, the splendid little trips to the art museums. I am going to try to make it to the new Bloch Building at Nelson Atkins tomorrow as my last day in KC.
Thanks for writing this.
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