Museums By Midnight Part 3

When we came downstairs we caught sigh of this gem:

The architectural model and the label for it.

After the Richardson Complex we were soaking wet and more than a little tired, so we caught a cab to the Albright-Knox, and took my car over to the Historical Society( BECHS); best decision we made all night!

Bechs is one of my least favorite places in the city and this time did not disappoint...we were told their were docents around, but could not find any and the folks we did find with BECHS tags on would not answer questions; too bad.






The outside of the building by night
and
The Buffalo's Bethune Exhibit:

The Apostle's Clock

Tools like my dad used to use.

I love this; I am not sure if you'll see it well, but it's called Viewable Storage and I think it's today's version of the old "Cabinet of Wonder"

Take a look inside

Some of the other stuff we found:

Above: The electric building from the 1901 Wold's Fair. If you ever get a chance go to the BECHS resource center and see the architectural model - it's something to write home about.

At the end of the night; we had filled our "dance cards"

We went home, exhausted.

Museums By Midnight Part 2

After the Burchfield-Penny (B-P) we went to the imposing and impressive Richardson Complex, it's next to never open so we were really looking for ward to this

on our way from the B-P we saw this and thought it was a nice shot.

The corner stone of a city icon:

After 10 minutes in the pouring rain we were glad to seek shelter on the steps; under these

Our First View:

Stairway to "nowhere"

A view down the ward

The floor tile border

Mosaic work on the floor

"C-'70" --I'll bet an inmate left it.

A door of what? Take a close look this door has a window opening into it:

Continued it Part 3....

Museums By Midnight Part 1

The National Preservation Trust is holding its National Conference here in Buffalo this week. Along with the regular sessions that such conferences offer they are doing tours of local preservation projects and museums. Thursday, October 20th, 2011 was one such tour, that was opened to the public. This was to take us on Self Guided Tours of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Art Conservation Dept of Buffalo State, The Birchfield-Penny, The Richardson Complex, and BECHS.
I had to go the Albright Knox for my Anthropology class to see the new exhibit so we started there, we were not allowed to take pictures and there are none online yet of the three brand new exhibits - so I have none of that venue.
We proceeded to walk across the street to the Art Conservation dept, and had a ball...I've been there before with my museums class last semester and loved it. I had to go again. I was restricted from taking pictures of client's art work that they were restoring - so I took pictures of some of the work areas and permenant displays in the halls everything I took pictures of I made sure to get permission.

daguerreotypes in the hall

Now take a walk through the labs with me

Some of the work areas.

participants looking through the microscopes..at ultramarine and( I think) azurite.
After this we went to the Birchfield-Penny. To look around this is some of what we found there.

Some of Mr Burchfield's own work

I'll continue in another post....