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Age of Armory and Teddy Bears
Dec. 27th, 2003 03:42 pmFor today's sightseeing, we headed up to Daytona Beach to the Museum of Arts and Sciences which was hosting "Age of Armor" exhibit on loan from the Higgins Armory Museum. The exhibit included mostly plate armor, some complete sets and other individual pieces. They also included a Corinthian helmet from Greece and a gorgeous chain mail shirt. The museum shop lady mentioned that they had almost sold out of the book for the exhibit and the exhibit still has two months left. I can easily imagine every SCA group in Trimaris/Atlantia/Meridies going for a look-see and commenting on the armor.
The museum had some other visiting exhibits, including two from home from the Smithsonian and Sackler museums. They actually had a parental warning sign for the Picasso, Braque and Léger exhibit. The most sobering exhibit was the "Wreck of the Henrietta Marie", a slave ship that wrecked off the Florida coast. Mel Fisher also discovered this wreck in his search for the treasure fleet. We stared at the Giant Sloth shown in the "prehistoric Florida" exhibit. Then we discovered the Root family collection with its collection of cars, Coca Cola memorabilia, teddy bears, quilts and trains. They had everything you could imagine from a 1946 Lincoln to a quarter million dollar teddy bear. If you like classic Americana, the collection had something for everyone from old Coke machines and delivery Model Ts... to the old drug store they moved to the museum... to the "Silver Holly" and "Dell Rapids" trains out in their own "train station". And all because someone decided to put Coca Cola in a bottle...
The museum had some other visiting exhibits, including two from home from the Smithsonian and Sackler museums. They actually had a parental warning sign for the Picasso, Braque and Léger exhibit. The most sobering exhibit was the "Wreck of the Henrietta Marie", a slave ship that wrecked off the Florida coast. Mel Fisher also discovered this wreck in his search for the treasure fleet. We stared at the Giant Sloth shown in the "prehistoric Florida" exhibit. Then we discovered the Root family collection with its collection of cars, Coca Cola memorabilia, teddy bears, quilts and trains. They had everything you could imagine from a 1946 Lincoln to a quarter million dollar teddy bear. If you like classic Americana, the collection had something for everyone from old Coke machines and delivery Model Ts... to the old drug store they moved to the museum... to the "Silver Holly" and "Dell Rapids" trains out in their own "train station". And all because someone decided to put Coca Cola in a bottle...
