I saw a Pirates exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago a couple years and enjoyed it very much so I’m really looking forward to the exhibit opening next Saturday, May 15 at the Frazier International History Museum because seriously, pirates are just cool. OK not modern pirates who are taking over ships and hostages off the coast of Africa but swashbuckling pirates of long ago. You know what I’m talking about.
Not content to just have a cool exhibit the Frazier Museum is doing some nice tie-in events with the Pirate exhibit including:
Doubloon Days where Museum admission is just $1 (May 26, June 30, July 28, August 25)
“A Pirate Adventure” summer camp for kids ages 6-12
A Bloodthirsty Pirates Blood Drive with the American Red Cross on Friday June 18
Scallywags’ Sunset Soiree: This rooftop cocktail party will offer a little grub, a lot of grog and music from Dem Reggae Bon on July 8.
There’s more but you get the picture. I’ll remind you about the cool events over the course of the summer as they roll around.
Piracy is as old as man’s fascination with the sea and now, through this exciting interactive exhibit designed to appeal to the adventurous spirit in adults and children, alike, visitors can share the adventure! Hear the stirring sagas of world-famous pirates, such as Captain Morgan, Calico Jack Rackham, Sir Francis Drake and Blackbeard. Meet swashbuckling female pirates and discover the differences between real-life pirates and their counterparts in fiction and movies. The pirates exhibit, which uses traveling exhibit components as well as features created by the Frazier Museum, will utilize artifacts, treasure, maps, illustrations and multimedia components to examine the lives of buccaneers, privateers and pirates, including modern-day, sea-bound gangs and those who sought their fortunes right there on the Ohio River. Together, they offer an unparalleled look at life under the infamous black flag.
May 7th, 2010 at 8:33 am
oh, now that sounds fun… and i wanna go to the soiree…
May 7th, 2010 at 8:41 am
It all sounds pretty fun. I’d love it if we could get a whole bunch of us Twitter/blogger/interwebs people to make a group visit to donate at the blood drive.