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May 27, 2008
I went to Cleveland and it was closed.
Shawn and I planned three days in Cleveland, as there were several things we wanted to do, like visiting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
We also thought we'd need considerable time to visit the renowned Cleveland Museum of Art and the Contemporary Museum of Art in Cleveland. Yet as our luck would have it, neither one is open to the public at the moment. The former is closed for renovations; the latter is closed for the installation of their next exhibit. Go figure. That exhibit opens the day we leave town.
The Cleveland Museum of Art closure makes us really mad. It's lame to close the whole musuem at once. Usually places will renovate in sections so they at least have something open at all times. Instead, they suggest that you visit one of their traveling exhibits. That's all well and good...if you're in Nashville!
We will end up going to see the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum at Case-Western University, and that will be cool. We hope to join the leagues of people that claim that they expected the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to be lame (as do we), but were pleasantly surprised to find it both interesting and cool. We have tickets at will-call to see the world-famous Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall, considered one of the top five orchestras in the country.
So we won't be without things to do, but it is a pretty big drag for us that both of the big art museums will be closed while we're here.
Posted by crispy at May 27, 2008 10:14 PM
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Sheesh. That sounds just like one of your Mexico stories? Unreal. Morons. (The museum people, not you two.)
[crispy says: Well, I do understand that they're offering a public service, and I'm sure they have their reasons for doing it the way they did. We would have still come through Cleveland to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, bu if we'd known that so much of the other stuff we wanted to see would be closed, we would not have booked three nights here.]
Posted by: Mark Allen at May 28, 2008 10:41 AM
That happened to me the last time I was in LA, I went to see LACMA and it was closed, so I settled for the MoMA Downtown.
Posted by: Akira at May 28, 2008 10:47 AM
Hey, just FYI, Cathy Heissenhuber (formerly Hutchinson) and another OU bandie friend of ours both were members of the Cleveland Orchestra when I was in law school. Cathy played french horn,but I don't know what chair she was in the orchestra.
Hope you all enjoy the trip!
Posted by: Carol at May 28, 2008 11:12 AM