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Walk for Art (8/5/22)

After a lovely run and walk this morning, Bob and I headed off for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, which we had seen online as a good free thing to do and which was recommended by our homeowners. To get there, we decided to walk along the 6.8 mile Harry Wiggins Trolley Track Trail. We can get on the trail at the end of our street. It was about a 1 hour walk to the art museum.

A plaque providing some history of the Harry Wiggins Trolley Track Trail. Seems like the Ashley’s should have their name in there too.

The Nelson-Atkins Art Museum was impressive. Crazy that it’s free, although you do pay for the special exhibitions. We didn’t pay and still saw some amazing art both inside and outside the museum.

The side of the museum that we initially walked up to. We ended up having to enter via a building immediately to the right of this building. You can see the “feathers” on a shuttlecock which is sort of the museum’s mascot.
One of our favorite exhibits was the contemporary room. This was in that room. It is called Chance Meeting by George Segal.
One artist’s take on playing chess.
This is Museum Guard by Duane Hanson. Crazy real!

The other floor that we really liked was the plaza level on the 2nd floor. It had a gorgeous entrance and restaurant and lots of European art, including Impressionism. And then, there was the outside art! Lovely, lovely museum.

The impressive entrance to the plaza level.
The courtyard restaurant.
Another view of the front of the museum and its famous shuttlecocks.
Hole 1 of the miniature golf course outside of the museum.
One last sculpture in the outside sculpture garden.

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