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why so freaky, freaky? I love this museum!
I didn’t even think they closed during the year. I’ve been there in November…
They close in the winter, mitten. I love it too. I particularly love the Paris fashion dolls—quite famous in Paris and New York, but less celebrated here.
And the most/best Rodin outside of Paris.
But it is a very odd place, and Sam Hill was a little odd himself—I mean, really, a Stonehenge along the Columbia?
Biggest Rodin collection outside the Rodin museums in Philadelphia and Paris, the fashion dolls and the CROWN FUCKING JEWELS OF ROMANIA!!!
And a reproduction of Stonehenge the way it’s supposed to look with all the stones in place. Maryhill rocks!
Maryhill is magic! Come for the Rodin, stay for the Russian icons, chess sets, and personal effects of the last queen of Romania. Completely random, completely awesome.
Also, swing by Goldendale on your way home and check out the largest telescope available to the public in the whole wide world. Stare at the sun (through filters) during the day! Check out the planets at night! FUCK YEAH!
@3: The biggest is not actually the best. The Rodins are okay (Stanford’s garden of them is much more satisfying, for instance), but what you really go for is the whole mix: peacocks, chess sets from around the world, Romanian crown jewels is right, Stonehenge, weird architectural intervention sculpture by Brad Cloepfil, the building itself, etc. etc.
Used to be very cool; now not so much. My fave memory is years ago they temporarily moved their art-glass collection into a space with natural light, under which they looked wild and magical; later they went back under very bad artificial lighting, where they look like lumps of glass. I assume that the curators were completely oblivious to the difference.