We then went uptown to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We three exhibits we really wanted to see; the dead shark inside of the tank by Damien Hirst, the first painting by Michelangelo, and the T206 Honus Wagner baseball card. We first went upstairs to see the shark, were I had a curious exchange with a museum worker. I asked him:

“excuse me, can you tell me where the shark in the tank is located?”

he answered (very condescendingly) “Um, oh, ha, ho hum, you mean the Damien Hirst exhibit?”

I said, puzzled “Yea, if thats the one with the shark.”

he then said, annoyed “Ugh, yes it is, it down the hall and to the right.”

I was so rilled up, because this guy was clearly talking down to me for not knowing the name of the “artist” who stuck a shark in a tank.

Well, after Sarah talked me down from going back over to that guy and knocking him out, we walked to the exhibit and found that it was closed for some reason. So strike one on our list.

We then made it towards the Michelangelo painting, which was mobbed with people, and the painting was maybe 12” by 20”, it was super tiny and you couldn’t even get close enough to it to see what it even was. Stirke 2.

Our last item brought us to the back of the museum in the “Displayed Storage” room. Of course the card wasn’t up, so we struck out on all three of the items we watned to see.

Luckily the Museum is full of other great exhibits so we walked around and took in as much as we could. The one area that always impresses me is the The Temple of Dendur.