New York Museums

OK, this blog won't be as long. I've condensed the photos.
We went to 3 museums other than the New York City Museum. The first was the National Museum of the American Indian. It was about the American Indians in the north-west of the USA and parts of Canada. The special exhibits were Norval Morrisseau: Shaman Artist where we could not take photos and Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast where these photos are from. It was in the old customs house down near the bottom of Manhattan and that's why there are the statues around the outside.



Next was the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). You can get in free on Friday nights. Lots of strange things in there! A layered CNC table, Jag car, funky engine fan blade, some laser sintered polymer objects which I explained to Rob, lots of cool furniture, Picasso including iterations of the same sculpture over many years showing the deterioration, van Gogh's Stary Night, Andy Warhol and his soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, Jackson Pollock, and a helocopter. Many other great things too, and some odd things like pages of numbers or small pen lines in rows.



The last was the Museum of Natural History. Now the funny thing is that there is a "suggested" admission price of $15 for adults but unless you really know about the place what they don't say is that you can pay any amount at all! If you get your ticket from the machine or online you have to pay $15 but if you line up for the 10-15 minutes to see a person, you pay what you like. We paid $20 for 3 of us. Rob goes all the time and usually pays $2 each time. It really encourages locals to go a lot which is great. If you want to see the special exhibits, you have to pay $22 for 2 things and general entry. The museum is massive, however, and we didn't quite get through all the general admission before we had had enough. We saw dinosaurs, current animals, birds, a really sad pacific islanders exhibit with a really sad bit on Australia, some better native American exhibits, more animals, a meteorite, stuff on human evolution and biodiversity. Great stuff.



So that was enough museuming for one city!