weekly wonder: sixteen LACMA

This week's adventure was a very exciting trip to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).  We were even lucky enough to have our good friends, Allie and Kaitlin, venture out with us!

When we arrived at the LACMA the first call to order was to walk around the grassy areas and to check out the La Brea Tar Pits, which also happen to be on the same grounds as the museum.   The Tar Pits smelled almost exactly like a tire or giant auto mechanic shop, but if you look past all that, it was really neat to see that in the middle of this busy and crazy city, there is something bubbling up prehistoric fossils and teaching us more and more about our past.  I thought it was super exciting... Noah had absolutely no idea what was going on, but give him a few more years and I am sure he will think it's pretty neat too!

After the Tar Pits, we passed in front of the Levitated Mass, which is this giant rock situated on top of an open tunnel.  The idea of walking our very young children under a 340-ton rock seemed a little unnerving to both Kaitlin and myself, so we decided to just make a quick pass and observe it's massiveness!  We even tried to get a obligatory shot of the strollers "under" the rock, but because we were both chickens, it didn't turn out quite the way we had hoped.  hah.

We then took the babies to the Boone Children's Gallery and signed them up for their membership to the LACMA.  Both Noah and Allie were really excited to receive their first museum membership and both Kaitlin and I were pretty excited to receive the free gardian tickets that come with the children's membership. ;-) While in the children's gallery, Noah managed to produce his own version of Korean/Chinese folk art.  That entertained him for a hot minute before we were off in search of more cool things.

After grabbing a quick bite to eat, we sought out the Metropolis exhibit by Chris Burden.  We were a little disappointed that it wasn't quite in running order since they only run it on weekends and holidays, but the craftsmanship of elaborate roadways and dense buildings were a sight to see!  I, for one, was extremely impressed and hope to make it back again and see this particular exhibit when it's actually running.

By this point in the adventure, the babies (mainly Noah because Allie is still young and good) were hungry and tired, we decided to just do a few more quick sculptures and then call it a quits.  We checked out the Urban Light lampposts and then the Penetrable spaghetti-looking sculpture.  Both of which Noah had fun weaving through and dancing around.

Unfortunately, we didn't get to do much indoor art seeking. I know the LACMA is famous for a lot of Henri Matisse paintings and Hokusai prints, but the babies were having none of that quite contemplative type viewing. It was a gorgeous day anyways and totally worth all of the outside time.

Anyways, LACMA was a great adventure and huge success, but since we really didn't get to fully check it out, we will for sure have to visit again in the future.

Have any of you visited the LACMA? What did you think?