Molly Brown House Museum

 Last Friday, April 27th, Linda and I went to the Molly Brown House Museum and took their Titanic tour.  We got there around 2:45pm after I got back from work and made it just in time for the 3:00 tour.   It ended up there were only three of us on the tour, which was good because the tour guide was loosing her voice.   Unfortunately you can't take pictures in the museum but we got some from the outside.  The house is dimly lit and has been refurnished to look like pictures of the original Brown house.  It has several pieces of original decorations, furniture, and photographs/paintings that were actually Margaret Brown's (apparently she was never called Molly until the show The Unsinkable Molly Brown came out).   They also had a special exhibit of pictures and rosters, etc. from the Titanic.  Supposedly Margaret Brown's house was decorated in a similar fashion as the Titanic's 1st class areas would have been.  
The house overall was kind of small.  They wouldn't let us go to the third floor where the servant's quarters and ballroom were because it's "only used for special occasions". 
Some things I found interesting were the popular parlor games - one of which was Phrenology.  They actually had a phrenology head with gold lettering in their family parlor which was interesting.  Let's see. . .they also had a very large silver plated punch bowl with cranberry glass inlay which was really pretty.
There were the period fainting and napping couches in the his and hers bedrooms.  Apparently when you took the corset off it made all your organs go back to their natural resting places and caused the ladies to faint, hence the fainting couches.  Also the napping couches were important because, at the time, after your bed was made you were not supposed to touch it again until you were ready to go to bed.  No sitting, lying, reading, etc. it was only for sleeping.
The house also had the original bathroom with toilet, claw-foot tub and sink on the second floor.  As we ended the tour we went down the servant's stairs which were very narrow.  The tour guide told us stairs were narrow so that if the servants tripped carrying something, they could smash their elbows into the sides, breaking their elbows/arms, and keeping whatever they were carrying safe (i.e china, crystal, expensive brandy, etc.).

 After the tour we looked through the Titanic exhibit, tried on some hats, and then took our pictures out front of the house.  It was a good tour.  I had taken the tour once when I was younger with my family but didn't remember much.   All in all a good day.