continued… The third room on the third floor of the Charles building was similar to the first two that we’d already seen: very large, spacious rooms filled with large paintings and some other types of art.
There were also exhibits in the walkway that ran along the perimeter of the courtyard below.
Continue readingSaturday, September 13 — We’d planned to go to The Walters Museum and Peabody Library this afternoon. Keith was opposed to going to yet another museum, but Christi and Eric managed to talk him into going because Walters had a large collection of medieval weaponry and armory.
The museum was almost 3.5 miles away, near the Washington Memorial. We could have taken public transit, but it would have taken at least an hour and involved about a mile of walking each way to/from the transit stops. Even though it was a gorgeous day, we’d walked 8-miles yesterday and just didn’t feel like we could do another extensive day of walking. We called a ride-share, instead, and were door to door in minutes.
The museum appeared to be two separate buildings that had been fused together. They each had a very different architectural style, so it was kind of weird looking. We entered through a set of doors set in the glass panel towards the left in this photo. Per the map, we were in the Centre building. The more ornate building was the Charles building. The map indicated there was also a third building on the west side of the Charles building called the Hackerman House.
The bus belonged to a tour group of senior citizens from Georgia, and we entered with them. We were delighted to find that admission was completely free for everyone! In order to leave the group behind, we headed up the stairs and started on the 3rd floor of the Centre building, where the medieval exhibit was located. Keith was disappointed to find that the armory exhibit was small.
This week has been fun. On Saturday, we went to the marina pool.
Cette semaine était amusante. Samedi nous sommes allés à la aupiscine de marina.
On Sunday, we went to Washington DC by car just for the day. We saw a few of the monuments, and they were kind of boring. I learned that The Jefferson Monument is pretty far from the most popular monuments. We didn’t see the whole loop because dad and I were hungry and it was a long walk. After the monuments, we ate at a Shake Shack close to the marina that we’re going to stay in while we’re in DC.
Continue readingContinued… As we’d noticed the day we’d visited the Historic Ships, the aquarium was housed in two separate buildings attached by a sky bridge. We wandered over to the skybridge to see what was in the other building. Here were the views from the bridge.
The other side had a 4-D movie that was an additional fee and a stadium where it looked like they used to do dolphin shows.
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continuing on in the transportation section… in 1935, Chevrolet opened a manufacturing plant south of Baltimore that produced more than 12-million vehicles during its 70+ years of operation. It closed in 2005.
There was a small display on a tire manufacturer. In 1921, Frank Schenuit patented a non-skid, pneumatic rubber tire that he began to manufacture through contractors. In 1925, he opened his own factory in Baltimore, employing 300 people and producing up to 1,000 tires per day. He expanded to airplane tires and niche specialty tires, such as for wheelbarrows. Schenuit sold the company in 1972, and in 1975, the new owner shut the plant down.
