On Thursday, June 28, Kathy took Emily to the Memorial Art Gallery, part of the University of Rochester.  We got lost only once getting there ("No Emily, we're not lost.  We have a map and full tank of gas."). 

The Dorothy McBride Gill center within the MAG had a family oriented interactive display centering on two works of John Singleton Copley and life in the colonial United States. 

Here is Emily in front of the sculpture outside the museum.  The sculpture is a red horse and a yellow cone.  The sun was in Emily's eyes.

These two pictures were taken just outside the museum front entrance and inside the center atrium.  It was hot outside but nice and cool inside.

One of the interactive features focused on portrait painting as a way of preserving people's likeness (this was before photography, remember).  The exhibit had some colonial costumes you could dress in, plus a series of objects which could be used as props.  You sat in a chair next to a small table, with a seascape as a backdrop, and by looking in the big mirror on the opposite wall, you could see yourself in a "colonial portrait".  Here is Emily in her 21st century clothes (left) and a costume (right).

Kathy got in the act, too.  And Emily put on a beautiful gown and jewelry.  The book she chose to hold, we learned, signifies she's a student.

Left, Emily in the Medieval room.  Right, at lunch.  Emily said her lunch looked "like a work of art".

Emily selected "Body Art Crayons" as her birthday present at the Museum gift store.  She decorated herself and Mom.

Kathy & Emily.