Apollo's Muse
August 2019 :
A recent section on a morning television show noted that the Metropolitan Museum of Art – Manhattan – had a temporary exhibit on the Moon, in honor of Apollo 11. Included in these several rooms are Daguerreotypes of the Moon, the Moon in art, dozens of lunar phases from Charles Le Morvan’s Systematic Photographic Map of the Moon from 1914, two Trouvelot sketches, and many more. In addition, there are snippets from the 1902 A Trip to the Moon, Fritz Lang’s Woman in the Moon, and the 1960 Destination Moon, where some of the script sounds quite familiar. You can even sit in front of an old wooden television and watch Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra marvel at the first steps. There is much more to see, so plan to stay at least a couple hours. The exhibit will be at the Met until September 22nd.
If you can’t make it there, there is a terrific complementary book, Apollo’s Muse, which contains virtually everything on display. As a remembrance of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, this is a great souvenir of that most incredible time, when the world came together to witness what had been thought to be the impossible.
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