ART CONTEST - WHO IS THIS ARTIST? - Trip to St. Louis Part 1

I have been traveling with family lately and been really busy now that I'm home and getting caught up with everything I missed. But now that we are back, I have a whole bunch of content to post and have some fun with.

So today we are going to start off with a tour of part of our STL trip and end it with an ART contest. Here we go!

We headed down town to give a boys a ride up in the Gateway Arch and to see the underground FREE museum they have there. The museum contains all kinds of artifacts from early natives who lived in the area as well as lots of education on the westward expansion that mostly started from this city.

When we got up to the arch entrance, we quickly discovered that while they were allowing the trams the ride up to the top, the museum was closed for renovations and the next tram wasn't available for 2 more hours.

So we decided that maybe we would wait until our next trip to see the arch. The boys were really disappointed because they know we don't make this trip very often. It would be years before we are back. But instead we decided to go check out the Saint Louis Art Museum in the city's Forest Park.

My oldest has been studying art and history in his home school work and he really enjoys it. This museum is free to the public and is chalked full of art ranging from ancient to the Renaissance to post modern. Much of it valued at beyond priceless. Not to mention that this month, there was a collection of medieval weapons and armor the boys wanted to check out.

Inside the museum all the art is on display separated by time periods. You are given a map when you first enter that will detail where many important pieces are on display.

Here is Joshua @thehomeschoolkid standing beside an over 3000 year old stone relief carving of Nimrod from ancient Iraq/Babylon. (He didn't have his hammer with him that day, besides they would have made him leave it in the car, I'm sure. LOL)

Here Joshua @thehomeschoolkid is again standing by an over 3000 year old statue of Isis on display from Egypt. This is where the celebration of easter comes from. That round disc in her crown is the sun and she was the worshipped in the celebration of the return of the spring equinox. The egg is one of the hieroglyphs that is used to spell her name.

The boys have been studying some classic art and Jaimie wanted to see some of the more famous art pieces on display at the museum. Here I am shouldered by two of the displayed Vincent Van Gogh paintings.