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The Museum of Fine Arts – Boston’s Famous and Highly Popular Art Museum
The Museum of Fine Arts – Boston’s Famous and Highly Popular Art Museum
If you are an art enthusiast, a visit to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MAF) is a must. Home to more than 450,000 art pieces, this famous museum is one of the largest in America. Streams of visitors pour in each day to the Museum of Fine Arts to catch a glimpse of its comprehensive collection that goes back to historic times. Opened in 1870, the place offers an extensive range of things to view that range from Impressionist artwork to an ancient mummy.
The museum is filled with many interesting exhibitions, interactive displays and other unique features that are bound to leave you appreciative of the true nature of art. Apart from the art work on display, the museum also hosts special gallery talks, concerts, movies, family programs and artist lectures on a daily basis.
Amid the Museumâ??s popular collections are those of the Art of Asia, the Art of Europe, the Art of Americas, the Art of the Ancient World and Contemporary Art collections. The Art of Asia features art starting from 4000 BC and extensively covers about half the worldâ??s population. It includes Japanese, Chinese and Indian artwork. The Art of Europe highlights a fine collection of art by famous artists like Van Gogh, Renoir, Rembrandt and Titian. The collection of Art from the Ancient World holds over 70,000 pieces that are highly interesting to view. You will be able to see artifacts such as mummies, gold work and sculptures retrieved from historic times from places like Egypt and Rome.
At the Musical Instrument section, instruments that range from its first innovation to those that are used today are on display. Even fashion lovers have something here that they will be interested in. The Museum of Fine Artâ??s Textiles Collection has over 27,000 items that include Middle Eastern throw rugs, European drapes, African cloth and haute couture designs. The Prints, Drawings and Photographs section is also worth a visit to gain a historic perspective into these categories.
Visiting Boston’s Historical Sites
Visiting Boston’s Historical Sites
Unlike most states in the Union, the capitol of Massachusetts is also its largest city â?? Boston. (Most states chose capitol cities based on their geographical location, not how big the city wasâ?¦or might become.)
Indeed, Boston is a huge city, with over 600,000 people in the city proper and over 4.5 million people if you count all the suburbs and environs of that comprise â??Greater Boston.â? Itâ??s located at the innermost point of Massachusetts Bay, at the mouth of the Charles River.
Boston holds the distinction of being one of the oldest cities in the United States, founded in 1630. Revolutionary war enthusiasts know that the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre took place here, as well as the Battle of Breedâ??s Hill. (Let this article be the first to stop calling it the Battle of Bunker Hill when everyone knows it took place on Breedâ??s Hill!)
But every visit to a stateâ??s capitol city should start with that cityâ??s government buildings.
A Date with Art and History in Boston’s Famed Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
A Date with Art and History in Boston’s Famed Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Renowned as the birthplace of liberty and its prolific architectural wonders, Boston is a pleasant culmination of the old and the new. The epicentre of democracy for four centuries, the townâ??s early settlers called this the ‘shining city on a hillâ?? which has transformed in to one of the countryâ??s pioneering cities and a hub for the nationâ??s artistic, literary and architectural intelligentsia.
As one of the worldâ??s most famous college towns, Boston is also home to some of Americaâ??s finest museums such as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Founded in 1903 this sprawling 15th century Venetian castle with its lush garden and full bloom courtyard houses the countryâ??s most illustrious art collections to date. Three storeys high, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum offers visitors a myriad of galleries with over 2500 sculptures, furniture, rare publications, tapestries, manuscripts and paintings as well as decorative arts of various origins that encompass thirty centuries.
Set in its idyllic backdrop the museum creates the perfect atmosphere for engaging the senses with the greatest artists the world has known and their work in attendance. With collections by Raphael, Rembrandt, Sargent, Michelangelo, Titian, Whistler Botticelli and Degas on offer it is easy to understand why the museum is a hotspot of education, historic art, music, horticulture and contemporary art.
The museumâ??s permanent collection includes Japanese blinds, ceramics, drawings and jewellery in addition to an impressive collection of paintings from the Italian Renaissance. The first Matisse ever to make its way in to an American museum can also be seen in the Yellow Room while correspondence letters by T.S. Eliot, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Adams and Sarah Bernhardt are also on display as are authentic Dante manuscripts. The contemporary arts collection on-site boast the work of such geniuses as Ruth St. Denis, John Singer Sargent, Charles Martin Loeffler and many more while budding artists are given the opportunity to live and fine tune their work within the hallowed grounds of the museum through the Artists-in-Residence program. The museum goes a step further in exhibiting the work of its ingénues on the premises thus giving potential artists the platform to garner world attention.
