National Museum of Women in the Arts

Place:	National Museum of Women in the Arts
Location:	1250 New York Ave., NW
Phone:	202.783.5000
Hours:	Mon - Sat: 10:00am–5:00pm Sun: 12:00pm-5:00pm
Website:	http://www.nmwa.org/

This museum is on New York Avenue and 13th - so it is very convenient to those in downtown DC. The Crafty Ones were intrigued by the sculptures that line New York Avenue, so they went into the museum.

It turns out there was a wedding that was being set up as The Crafty Ones were perusing the art work. The art work, for the most part - no, no, entirely - was horrible. It wasn't high quality, it wasn't interesting, and it was a disappointment. You might say we are jaded, which is true, but the collection was disappointing and the museum is pretty, do not get us wrong, but it just left us dissatisfied. Yes we know we are lucky to leave in a city with gems like the Phillips Collection and the others. So go see the installation of statues on New York Ave and save 10 bucks.

National Aquarium Shop

Place:	National Aquarium Shop
Location:	1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230
Phone:	202.482.2825
Hours:	Daily: 9:00am–5:00pm
Website:	http://www.nationalaquarium.org/

The National Aquarium Shop once again is located in the basement of this old building downtown. It's approximately the size of a closet, with the quality of items to match a conventional closet.




The store has a plethora of stuffed animals (jelly fish, eels, sea horses) but no jewelry and nothing worth buying. Skip the store.

National Aquarium

Place:	National Aquarium
Location:	1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230
Phone:	202.482.2825
Hours:	Daily: 9:00am–5:00pm
Website:	http://www.nationalaquarium.org/

The National Aquarium is nestled in the basement of an old federal building downtown - which, to the observant eye, would be Clue #1 as to the size and grandeur of the place. $9 later and you realize the aquarium is tiny - amateurish - and aside from the air conditioning and the birthday party room, there isn't much reason to go there.



The Crafty Ones walked to the Aquarium and were amazed at the few tourists and the attractiveness of the tourists. The tourists, if we had such a rating scale, would achieve 4.5 owls. Unfortunately the aquarium receives just 1 owl. This is due to the small size and the lack of accurate information in each exhibit.

Georgia O'Keeffe at the Phillips

Place:	Georgia O'Keefe Exhibit at the Phillips Collection
Location:	1600 21st Street Northwest Washington, DC 20009-1090
Hours:	Tue - Sat: 10:00am – 5:00pm Sun: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Website:	http://www.phillipscollection.org

Last Sunday, the Crafty ones decided to go to the Phillips Collection to see the Georgia O'Keefe exhibit. We knew we needed to go before the closing date was upon us. The exhibit is great, it shows you a lot of her early works and pictures from her "Cubist period". I had never thought of O'Keefe as a cubist painter but after observing some of her early abstractions you can not but identify the impact this movement had on her and her work.

The exhibit is a bit disorganized in my opinion, it goes by theme instead of in chronological order, but you get to see in just a few rooms the breadth of her work, from flowers to clouds, with some very interesting large format abstract painting of doors and gardens. I think the exhibit would work better if they showed you her work chronologically or with better explanations, maybe we should have tried the cell-phone tour, but i felt that the works they show at the exhibit are beautiful, but somehow I missed what they were trying to explain to me.

Regardless, if you are in DC and you have time, it is my opinion that you should definitely go to the Phillips and see the exhibit, her paintings are beautiful and there is something for everyone in this exhibit. It is because of this that we are giving the exhibit 3 owls.