Rainy day in Kansas City

It's a cold, rainy morning here in Kansas City. It doesn't look like a promising day for things outdoors. I wonder what else there is to do today?

There's always the Nelson. The Hallmark Photographic Collection display is there thru April 30th, in Gallery 208. This sounds interesting, especially to a wannabe photographer.

The museum's website says:
"The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has announced its acquisition of the complete Hallmark Photographic Collection, considered the most broad-ranging and important private collection of American photography. Thirty-one pieces are on display. The collection spans the entire history of photography, from 1839 to the present, with works by such renowned pioneers and masters as Southworth & Hawes, Carleton Watkins, Timothy O’Sullivan, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Harry Callahan, Lee Friedlander, Andy Warhol and Cindy Sherman."

Might have to check it out!

Union Station can be fun on a rainy day. According to the station's website, this is the last weekend for:
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
:Muhammad Ali. Billie Jean King. Lance Armstrong. The great champions do more than break records. They change the way we think about our world. Smithsonian's Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers exhibit brings sports history together with American history, examining how sports illuminate and transform a society: changing lives, affecting politics, fueling the economy, and shaping the culture.

Portraying athletes from 17 different sports, the exhibit draws from the Smithsonian's extensive sports and leisure collections:

• A handball that belonged to Abraham Lincoln
• Hank Aaron’s baseball uniform
• Mia Hamm’s Olympic soccer jersey
• Bonnie Blair’s speed skating skins
• The goggles Gertrude Ederle wore when she swam the English Channel in 1926
• Michael Jordan’s basketball jersey

Using these and other rare objects, graphics, photographs, and an audio-visual presentation produced by the History Channel, the exhibition shows how individuals of ability, courage and integrity changed their sport, their community and their country.

I've been to oneof the Smithsonian's travelling exhibits before, and it's always amazing and surprising to see the items up close and personal!

There you have it. A couple of things to do on a rainy day in Kansas City!

posted by B.G. Roberts @ 9:53 AM