I hate missed opportunities – perhaps to a fault. (for better or worse, Zach has inherited this trait from me.) So when I heard that the BYU art museum had an exhibit of several famous religious painters that was unprecedented, it went right on our to-do list for Christmas break.
The excerpt from the article that got me was this:
And this new exhibit is making history.
"These paintings have never before been out of the oratory [the King's Oratory at the Frederiksborg Castle museum] since they were installed … in the 1860s-70s, and they will not be loaned again," castle director Mette Skougaard said in a press release.
And so that is how I happened to take a 2 year old to an art museum. All in the name of not missing out. (Me, or the other kids, or her! Will she remember it? Of course not. But she can say she went. :) Although I admit that in the short film they had us watch before entering the exhibit (during which she climbed on and off of her chair ten times clanking her lip gloss in it's tiny metal carrying case) I thought I may have made a grave error. :)
Once we borrowed a stroller from the museum and entered the gallery, however, it was all more than worth it. They had an ipad app that the kids took turns using that told about the paintings (and kept them from losing interest!), and although I had seen reprints of most of the works the originals were so much more beautiful. It was really, really neat.
AND, to make the day even better, we met one of my oldest friends at a McDonalds on our way home, where the little kids spent hours in the germ-infested playland, Zach managed to have a conversation (with eye contact) with her darling daughter his same age (he is terrified of pretty girls) and my friend and I talked and laughed like we were in 6th grade again. Just without the big bangs and with 4 kids apiece. :)
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