LSU Museum of Art to host antique toy exhibit through January

The LSU Museum of Art will display “Trains, Planes and Automobiles,” an exhibit of vintage and antique toys, according to a University Relations news release.

The exhibit will open Nov. 24 and run until January 2013. It will showcase toys from the 1930s to today, the release said.

In addition to the display, the Manship Theatre will host a showing of “The Polar Express” on Dec. 20.

The museum and the theater are both located in the Shaw Center for the Arts downtown.

LSU Libraries to showcase Louisiana flowers in exhibit until February

LSU Libraries’ Special Collections will sponsor an exhibition called “Late Bloomers: Fall Flowers from Margaret Stones’ Flora of Louisiana” in December, according to a University Relations news release.

The exhibit, which will run from Dec. 3 to Feb. 16, 2013, in Hill Memorial Library, will showcase several of Stones’ watercolor drawings of Louisiana plants, the release said.

The library is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays, except for home game days.