This post contains the more education portion. It will attempt to work through the museum following the timeline post on the walls. As with many museums, the lighting is pretty low, so some of the text might might be hard to read from blur or reflections.

At the front, they were a few introductory panels, artifacts, and the framed list of First Ladies. (There was also two First Lady standees, as you will find out in the next post.) As it turns out, some of the earlier presidents had no wives or wives that passed before them. Other relatives fulfilled the role of the First Lady. Being “ye olden days of intolerance”, they all had to actually be women.

For lack of a better term for it, the room has First Lady wallpaper. We are pretty sure that it is custom ordered, and it is not available in Lowes or Home Depot. The wallpaper progresses through the presidencies and eras of the United States.

Lowes and Home Depot really should sell educational wallpaper. At the very least, they should have Math, Science, English, and History wallpaper.

After the earliest First Ladies, they start including displays with artifacts and more information.

An even better wallpaper would be one in layers, like a tablet. It starts with rudimentary lessons on the top. As your kid grows, you pull off layers of wallpaper for more advanced lessons.

We will attempt to break this up roughly by era.

It should not be surprising that, as you progress in time, there is more information and artifacts for the First Ladies.

Yes, The Gilded Age came with a floor fan; it was a defining aspect of the era. There were several strategically placed fans that blocked exhibits.

There has been a lot of “fashion show” that was skipped over to put in the third post. This is the panel between the “fashion show” of full-sized inaugural ball gowns and the next display.

There is a little bit of “fashion show” in this display, but it contains history too.

It isn’t our fault; The Jazz Age already blurry.

We are finally starting to get into eras that people might actually remember. The display case was a weird shape, and many of the pictures came out badly.

The glass was curved, so these next pictures could be from the curved glass or a close-up fish-eye effect.

At this point, even we remember these people. We are happier about that for some more than others.

It looks like we failed to get a picture of the Modern Era First Ladies – Rosalyn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, and Hillary Clinton. Although, there is a picture of them further down on the front desk.

The front desk, and the woman that assisted us. A bit washed out, but you can see the First Lady standees in the background.

Upstairs, they had the press conference area, where Kate tried being a First Lady.

Downstairs, they had a long cabinet of displays leading to the auditorium.

Her are some other views of the buttons. Some of them are amusing.

And somewhere, they had this ladies portrait. We are not even sure if she is a First Lady. It might just be some random grandma. OK. It does say Florence Kling Harding on the bottom. It is interesting that Wikipedia calls her Florence Mabel Harding. She was the first future First Lady to vote in a presidential election. He is ranked among the worst presidents of the United States. Fortunately, she is not ranked among the worst First Ladies.

And, next, the fashion show fluff. No, not the Kate fashion show; the First Lady fashion show.