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Local Museum Brings Mardi Gras to Erie

By: Danielle Woods
Updated: February 9, 2013
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February 8, 2013 - A packed house celebrated with it's own take on the party that New Orleans made famous...

Three hundred tickets were sold for tonight's Mardi Gras party at the Erie Art Museum.

Many of the folks were strutting their favorite Mardi Gras look, complete with a costume contest.  Prizes were awarded for best man, woman, couple and group costumes.
  
Tickets for tonight's event cost fifty dollars each, and complete proceeds benefit the mission and programming of the Erie Art Museum.

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