A day at the Karpeles Manuscript Museums

Since my husband took a few days off from work, we decided to check out a few exhibits we wanted to see at the Karpeles Manuscript Museums in Buffalo. There are nine of these museum in the country, we are fortuante to have two of them in Buffalo.

We first went to the museum on North Street (at the corner of Elmwood Avenue) to see the exhibt on the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. It was a much smaller exhibit than we anticipated. The building itself is very impressive through. The Boy Scout exhibit runs through the end of April.

We then walked down Elmwood and had lunch at Cozumel Grill. Very good Mexican food and BIG portions!

After lunch we drove to the other Karpeles Museum on Porter Avenue. If we were ambitious we could have walked and worked off that lunch! At the Porter Avenue museum we saw the very impressive exhibit "A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II & the Jewish People"

We probably spent close to two hours looking at this moving exhibit which chronicled the life of Pope John Paul II, his ties to his Jewish friends, the Holocaust, and more. No matter what your faith, this is a must see exhibit. This exhibit runs through June 30th.

Also at the museum is an exhibit on documents related to the Civil War and another exhibit on the assassination of President William McKinley at the 1901 Pan American Exposition.

For more information call 716-885-4139. Best of all, admission to the Karpeles Museums is free