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Museum Visits

You’re about to lose that attitude that museums are stuffy.

Myself looking at some of the Hulett art.

Disney Animation, Christmas Cards and More at the Hilbert Museum

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Awhile ago my friend Melissa of Amuseboosh introduced me to the Hilbert Museum, a stunning art museum right under my nose in nearby Orange, just blocks away from some of my favorite antique malls! Recently Patrick and I went, as they had several exhibits that were really interesting, including Disney art from the 1950s and…

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Image of me, with my red hair down, and a blue and white scarf in it as a headband, wearing a cream dress with a lace panel in the center. At the high neckline is a blue flower brooch, standing in front of the Muzeo with its banners advertising the exhibits.

Muzeo contrasts Victorian Mourning with Edward Mobley’s Cute Critters

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Content Warning: The following post includes images and discussions of death, including images of post-mortem photography. If you wish to not view or read that portion of the post, stop reading after the mention of Bitter Squeaks’ Etsy shop. Last week the Muzeo, Anaheim’s beloved little museum, unveiled two new amazing exhibits, Rubber Menagerie and…

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Myself standing in front of the barn, behind me a large white sign atop the porch that reads "Hollywood Heritage Museum Lasky-DeMille Barn Est. 1913"

Farm to Fame: Tales of Glitz, Glamor & Eminent Domain at the Hollywood Heritage Museum

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At the turn of the 20th century despite its bustling downtown core Los Angeles still had many agricultural elements and in 1901 Jacob Stern built a little barn on the corner of Selma and Vine, just one block south of what would become the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Over the next century the little barn…

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Myself, wearing a brown cowboy hat, a green patchwork cowboy shirt, with a red tee underneath reading "Red Dog Saloon" and featuring a cartoon image of a dog, and green courdory pants, standing in front of a museum exhibit wall that has a large image of a bear wearing a pink cowboy hat, and text reading "Imagined Wests If you close your eyes and picture ‘the American West,’ what do you see? A desert landscape? A frontier town and tumbleweeds? National parks and majestic mountains? How about the Kansas prairies, the forests of the Olympic Peninsula, or the Hawaiian Islands? Do you picture a cowboy on horseback? Native Americans? Or the variety of people in Los Angeles or another Western city? This gallery explores the tales we tell about the West, both he ones we call ‘Westerns’ and the wide rage of other stories rooted in the region. Many of our ‘Imagined Wests’ - the places and characters we picture when we close our eyes - come to us through popular culture. Film and television, music and writing, visual art and fashion, performance, and even museums have given us so many Wests. When we mix these stories together, the American West may look different from our first associations. But the West has always been home to a variety of interconnected peoples and the stories we all create here."

The Autry: A Look at the American West, both Real and Fiction

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With a love of westerns, it’s no wonder one of my favorite museums in Los Angeles is The Autry, which is dedicated to the American west. Recently they opened Imagined Wests, an exhibit that showcases how the American West is presented in pop culture. In addition to Imagined Wests, there were a few other interesting exhibits,…

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