What are your favorite museums in your local area? What museums would you suggest to someone visiting your area? Tell us a little about them.
Here’s my list:
http://www.mfa.org/ Museum of Fine Arts…my home away from home growing up. They’ve expanded it…one thing I don’t like is that they took out a lot of the character that used to be there. For example, Nineteenth Century European Art used to be displayed in Galleries decorated in the style of that period. Now there are stark white walls with Gallery lighting… loses some of the impact I think…
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/fogg/ The Fogg Museum. There are several art museums at Harvard. This is the oldest…and my favorite.
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/ The Gardner Museum... A real gem. Home of the late Isabella Stuart Gardner, it’s an Italian Palazzo reconstructed in the Fenway area of Boston. It houses an amazing art collection, beautifully displayed. Members of the Boston Symphony perform there often….The music resonates through the building…truly magical.
http://www.mos.org/ Boston Museum of Science… I have yet to see another science museum that lives up to this standard
http://web.mit.edu/museum/ The MIT Museum…A real gem I discovered about a year ago. The local CSI (sorry…not Crime Scene Investigation…. It’s Construction Specification Inst.) chapter had their holiday party there. We had the run of the place. What a blast!
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