The Gugg

We went to the Guggenheim a while ago now.

My local library has a program where they buy group subscriptions to various museums, exhibits and events and then you can check the subscription card out for two days and get into museums, exhibits and events for free.

It cost and arm and leg to go to the movies these days, but it cost two arms and two legs to go to a museum. It's as if they DON'T want you to come or something.

The memberships also include either free parking or discounted parking, plus discounts to the shops and cafe inside the place which is fantastic.

The local library just got cool again!! LOL

If we'd had to pay ourselves it would have cost around $50 for admittance and parking in the city. Call me crazy but I love driving into NYC, probably because I don't have to!!

The museum actually had a free family activity pack that Baby C loved, it had a section where you had to find different works of art as you walked around the museum and check them off on your paper as you found them. She found some that even I couldn't find....it was fun.

Then they gave you plain paper to draw your favorite piece of art, there was this big old rusty metal thing that someone considered art that Baby C chose to draw, I have to scan it and show you guys.

I know that's such an ignorant comment to make about a piece of artwork but I just didn't know how to appreciate it properly and I wasn't about to wear the headphone thingys to listen to the history of the piece. Baby C was intimated by the big old thing at first but saw another little girl sitting drawing it and soon she decided she was a brave old soul!

I'm still trying to figure out if they took the piece apart and reassembled it or what? I know they had to cut down walls to to even allow it to sit in the museum.

The funniest thing is, while I was writing this post for the life of me I couldn't remember either the artist name or the name of the piece so I googled "rusty metal at the guggenheim" and it came right up! So I guess it wasn't just me that had complex thoughts on the piece!

People always ask me why am I never in the pictures, well here's Big C in charge of the camera and you'll see why I'm always the one taking the pictures.

Later that night when I was putting Baby C to bed she picked out a book for me read, she picked "Curious George in the Big City".

Baby C got TOOO excited when we turned the page only to find out that one of the place that Curious George visited while he was in the city was The Guggenheim.

It truly was a perfect end to a perfect day.