For those who would like to extend their stay and take in some of the area's most popular attractions, two  tours are available for Saturday, March 11. You can sign up for these tours on the WIST registration form; the tours are subject to cancellation if there are fewer than 10 registrants.

8:30 a.m.: Depart from the American Museum of Science and Energy parking lot at 8:30 a.m.

10:00 a.m. - 12 Noon: Shopping at the Five Oaks Outlet in Pigeon Forge. Enjoy buying upscale merchandise at factory prices at Ralph Lauren, Woolrich, Kasper, Lenox, and many more.

12:15 - 1:15 p.m.: Lunch at the Pancake Pantry in Gatlinburg. Discover old-world sandwiches and an array of international pancakes, crepes, and blintzes.

1:15 - 4:00 p.m.: Shopping at The Village. Browse though these unique shops in a quaint old-world setting. This community of shops features craftsmen, artists, and restaurants with "a bit of yesterday, a touch of today, and a little of tomorrow."

4:00 - 5:45 p.m.: Return to Oak Ridge.

10:30 a.m.: Depart from the American Museum of Science and Energy parking lot for Knoxville.

11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.: Frank H. McClung Museum (University of Tennessee campus, Circle Park Drive; Free). A general museum with collections in anthropology, archaeology, decorative arts, medicine, local history, and natural history.

Special Exhibit: "Scholars, Scoundrels, and the Sphinx: A Photographic and Archaeological Adventure of the Nile," highlights the state of the monuments, important Egyptologists and archaeologists, travelers, dealers in antiquities, pashas, and khedives, mosques, and museums in Egypt. To create an atmosphere of the period, over 100 photographs from some 40 sites and scenes along the Nile taken by photographers who worked in the Nile Valley at the time from the Museum's collection of early albumen prints, stereoviews, and postcards will be examined.

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.: Lunch at the Riverfront Tavern (at participant's expense).

2:00 - 4:00: Knoxville Museum of Art (1050 World's Fair Park Drive). Designed by noted museum architect Edward Larabee Barnes, this state-of-the art facility has five galleries, a computer-interactive ARTcade, an Exploratory Gallery, a 170-seat auditorium, Great Hall, gardens, and gift shop.

Special Exhibit: "M. C. Escher: A Centennial Tribute," celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the 20th Century Dutch artist M. C. Escher. It is drawn entirely from the National Gallery of Art, which has the most comprehensive holdings of his work. Escher (1898 - 1972) was a master printmaker who received international acclaim for his compositions of complex interlocking shapes that evoke jigsaw puzzles, perceptual games in which two-dimensional objects appear to be three-dimensional, and architectural designs that are physically impossible to construct. The selection of 85 works on paper spans the artist's career and includes many of his best-known images such as Drawing Hands (1848), Still Life with a Spherical Mirror (1934), Day and Night (1937), and Metamorphosis (1967-68). (North Gallery, upper level)

Permanent Exhibit: "Delicious Mosquitoes" Exploratory Gallery. Local artist and University of Tennessee art professor David Wilson designed his 40- x 18-foot gallery space for children and adults to interact, play, and pretend. The gallery's dark gray corridors are lined with dozens of masks for trying on new faces, and mirrors are placed at many eye levels through openings in the walls. A colorfully-painted interior room is full of bright lights and curious sounds, triggered by movement. The gallery's unusual title, according to the artist, was taken from hearing children affectionately called "mosquitoes." Wilson says, "Combining 'delicious' with 'mosquitoes' conjures up for me sweet images of play." (Lower level)