When Brenda asked if I had an interest in seeing the shoe collection at the Paine or the Titanic exhibit at the Oshkosh Public Museum. I was like sign me up. I really wanted to see the Titanic exhibit but the shoe collection at the Paine Art Center in Oshkosh sounded intriguing.
The Walk This Way collection is a collection of footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes. These shoes were worn in movies and by the rich and famous along with regular shoes throughout history. It features over 100 shoes.
The collection filled the main gallery and salon gallery downstairs. Upstairs in the Gothic Gallery, were autographed shoes from Britton’s Walk-Over Footwear. These featured shoes worn by famous people and signed by them. There were athletes and movie stars. My favorite were Daniel Radcliffe's boots.
To keep you engaged and make you want to check out the other rooms of the mansion, the Paine put together a scavenger hunt titled "The Curious Case of the Missing Left Shoes." Throughout the mansion a shoe was hidden. Each shoe corresponded with a letter on the map they gave you. If you find all the shoes and break the code, you able to go online and see more shoes. We definitely had fun exploring the mansion and gardens looking for shoes. We found all but one so by process of elimination we could crack the code. The one we were missing was the one by the carriage house and I figured it was in an obscure spot. Some were easier to spot than others.
Overall it took us about an hour to go through the exhibit and complete the scavenger hunt. It was definitely worth the trip to Oshkosh.
Walk This Way Exhibit is at the Paine until October 10th. Admission is $12 for adults and $7 for youth. It is definitely worth the price of admission even if it's just to see the boots from Kinky or the Harry Potter boots.
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