Sneak preview

From today's Seattle Times:

Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) officially comes out of hiding this weekend, after decades of being tucked away on an obscure side street in the Montlake neighborhood.
MOHAI now has pride of place on the south shore of Lake Union in the splendidly refurbished Naval Reserve Armory.

The museum officially opens on Saturday, but we had an invitation to the member's preview this morning.  To be honest, we liked the "obscure side street," not to mention the funky old museum itself and free parking on Lake Washington.

To get to the new MOHAI you have to fight traffic and navigate dead-end and one-way streets along the Mercer construction mess.   Well, unless you happen to live downtown and can take the cute streetcar.  So you can see, we were somewhat biased against the new museum from the start.

We soon discovered it really is a wonderful place.  The space is beautiful and the exhibits more extensive. Some are interactive...but not overwhelmingly so.  I'm sure we'll go again sometime, but I'm still glad my volunteer gig with MOHAI is down at the museum archives in Georgetown.