The St. Louis Art Museum

After a long week at work, I sure do look forward to Friday nights. Whether it is sitting at home actually watching TV, or going out and exploring someplace I've never been, I always love the weekends. And this one was no different.

My husband is taking an art class this semester to satisfy a fine arts credit requirement. Not that we hate art, we just aren't art-sy people. My husband can draw, and I can be creative when it comes to making things. ( like teaching myself to crochet or decorating my home. ) Were we really looking forward to going to an art museum? No. But, As you can read below, I was pleasantly surprised to have enjoyed this museum.

Neither one of us had ever been to the St. Louis Art Museum, but a project in my husbands art class required us go and find a piece of art that "spoke to him" and record how it made him feel, what drew him to this particular piece, etc. It could be any art piece, from any published artist, but you had to see it in person. We chose the St. Louis Art Museum because:

1. It was only about 35 min away from us
2. It has free admission!
3. It is open until 9pm on Friday!


First impressions, its huge! And the museum map smelled good. I like the smell of printed paper :) fun fact about me. This museum has three floors of various art!

I found out the 'security-guard' way that there are lines on the floor you aren't supposed to cross and get too close to the art...but the lady in the painting didn't even warn me about it. Geez. Rude. 

Here are my interpretations of floor 2 (the main floor) exhibits. Most of this floor is European and Asian Art and Contemporary Art. 

Here we see..... a chair you can't sit in. 

The paint sample wall from a home improvement store

Kindergarten scribbles

"Shhhh! This one is speaking to him!"

I actually really like this one. This Japanese rice paper drawing is interesting. I don't know all the technical terms on how to describe it. I just like it. 

Micah found a painting that he liked, and took notes on it. After we wandered around the massive main level, we went up to the third floor, where they had Native American, Alaskan Inuit, and some American (founding fathers) art. As well as some church art from the middle ages. 

This thing caught my attention in the Native American exhibit. 

Because everyone needs a beaded goat purse! I would rock this purse if I lived 500 years ago. 

This...fish man clock. 

I thought this fireplace tile was pretty 

I actually LOVED the Art Museum's building. Look at it! This is an exhibit up on the third story, and it is so well done! And clean! And quiet, it was really great. 

The view of the main story from the third story. See what I mean? Absolutely Beautiful building/architecture. 

Museum selfie :) 

From the third floor we took the elevator down to the first floor, which housed the south/central american art. The Mayans,  Aztecs, etc. As well as some 'period rooms' which were set up like rooms out of the 1700's, a section of weapons and armour, and then some decade art, with sections dedicated to the furniture and apparel of the 1960's, and 70's. That's right, disco is in a museum...where it belongs. 

I thought this was cool. The calligraphy is beautiful! 

I liked this because it seemed like it was a toy, a dollhouse with little dolls in it for a child to play with. 

Well...you can't be serious ALL the time...

To Narnia!!!! But really, the wood on this wardrobe is beautiful! 

One of the 'period' rooms, typical of the royalty of the 1670's according to the sign I read.  

We stayed, wandering around this massive museum for about an hour and a half, which for us is a long time to spend in any museum. Im not one for paintings, but once we got into the exhibits with actual artifacts, that interests me. I love seeing tools, weapons, furniture, and other everyday life things from times past. 

I'm glad we explored the St. Louis Art Museum. It's worth mentioning, too, that they have gardens and a sculpture park as well- but we didn't get to see those because we were there after dark. So if you go during the day, you can explore those as well! And I recommend it. At the hefy price of FREE, you can spend an entire morning or afternoon wandering around this place. I also think the museum has an active schedule, with special events going on each month of the year. 

After the museum, we had a delicious dinner at Outback Steakhouse and left there stuffed to the brim. 

It was a great date night :)