Art, Art, Everywhere!

On Saturday, we decided to hit all of the Smithsonian art museums at once. We like art, but it definitely wouldn't take us the whole day to go to one museum. So, we took the metro to the Smithsonian exit and found this on the lawn:

The Library of Congress National Book Festival. There were a TON of people there and a TON of authors. The ones that I was excited about were Shannon Hale (Goose Girl), Kate DiCamillo(Because of Winn Dixie), Lois Lowry(Number the Stars and the Giver series), Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians series) and David Shannon (No, David!). We thought it might be fun to buy a book there, even if we didn't get it signed. So we went in the sales tent and saw the line that was longer than the one we stood in to go on the new Toy Story ride at Disney California. We decided not to buy a book. Then we went outside and saw the lines to get an autograph from the authors and decided to go to the art museums instead. We did get some really great free bags and books. Yeah for free stuff.

Our first stop was the Smithsonian Castle...

The Castle has a basic overview of all the Smithsonian Museums. Since we have already been to quite a few of the museums, we didn't spend much time here.

We went to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Asian art), the Freer Gallery of Art (American and Asian Art), the National Museum of African Art, and the National Gallery of Art. There were actual Monets at the Gallery of Art. Very cool.

Here are overview pictures...





It was a very artful day!