The Asheville History Center has organized this day trip to Charlotte to visit the Mint Museum Uptown and the Charlotte History Museum. This very special day trip is being co-sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of North Carolina – Asheville.The day will begin with a guided tour of the Mint Museum’s permanent collection at 11:00 and then a self-guided tour of an extraordinary exhibition entitled Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939. This very large exhibition is a traveling show organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburg and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. It has received incredible reviews from visitors where it has toured including the New Orleans Museum of Art. World’s fairs were the first global meeting places to showcase international design and manufacturing. This exhibition is full of fabulous treasures and objects from expositions around the world. The trip has been organized in conjunction with the Asheville History Center’s exhibition Douglas Ellington: Asheville’s Boomtown Architect.
After the Mint Museum visit, we will walk a short distance to the restaurant, Mimosa Grill, located in downtown Charlotte for lunch. A small selection of entrees will be available to choose from. Following lunch we will continue to the Charlotte History Museum for a guided tour of its buildings and grounds.
Travel arrangements to Charlotte will be handled by Young Transportation on a modern passenger coach. The cost for the trip is $100 per person for members of WNC Historical Association and/or the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Non-member registrants are $120 per person. The cost of the trip includes transportation, all entry fees to the Mint Museum and the Charlotte History Museum, an elegant luncheon and snacks on the coach.
Reservations are required and must be made by January 3, 2014. Please make a reservation(s) by calling 828-253-9231 or by emailing [email protected].