March 15, History Museum, and architecture

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On our way from the Art and Craft Museum to the International History Museum (formerly known as the Arms Museum).

Louisville Slugger museum and factory.

Surely hope someone has the desire and the resources to fix this building.

Wouldn't you love to put your comfy chair in there and glance up from your novel to look out the different windows?

Inside the arms museum.  Love it when they invite me to touch..........

This was really very heavy.  Those guys were tough!

This gorget is believed to have belonged to Sir Philip Sidney. It was decorated by Adrian Collaert, who was Flemish (from Antwerp), and is dated 1583.

I know nothing about arms or armor, but it seemed to me that this museum has a very nice collection.

Imagine the time it took to do all this decoration (in addition to the manufacture!).

Another exhibit in the museum was on on Louisville drinking water.

This was part of a water main!

Another exhibit -- toys, focused on the toys who starred in the Toy Story movies.  Love the title of the exhibit.

Barbie appears in Toy Story 3.  Here she is in a few of her many incarnations.

This exhibit featured several scenes-from-famous-movies as played by the Toy Story toys.

Tee hee.

Mr. Potato head, as various Star Wars characters.

The museum has a fun gift store, which includes these corrugated cardboard critters.

Heading back toward the hotel.  The building, far right, with the red light house on top is on the other side of Fourth Street from our hotel.

Looking north up Fourth Street.

You can see the connection between the two towers of our hotel (which was two stories high and full of glass ... and fake trees).

There was very little furniture in our room.  We were glad for this wide windowsill-plus-heating/cooling.  Note that my French shopping bag came along.

We ate dinner at Saphron's.  I had a veggie kabob, which was quite tasty.

This is my first Turkish coffee ever.  Yum.

In order to facilitate reading the Louisville posts in chronological order, I have put a link at the end of each post to the next one. The post after this one is here.
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