Art Museums in Boston

Ok, now to finish off what I started yesterday morning.
After we walked down the shopping street and went to the homeless artists art sale, we got on the subway (also known as the T) and headed out to the Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

We went to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum first. Caroline had been there before on an English tour of New England last year. However, for me it was a first time visit. The museum was amazing! It was an art museum, but had the atmosphere of walking through a house. Lots of paintings and sculptures were tucked in corners or aligned in a row right at the top of the wall were it meets the celling. Everywhere you looked there was something that you hadn't yet seen. The museum boasts some very famous European Masters such as Rembrant and Machelangelo, which I am not used to seeing being from the Westcoast; most all the famous European artists were sealed in museum collection long before the west coast was in a position to look at developing museums.

The other very cool thing about it was that very few peices of art, be they sculptures, paintings, books or historic artifacts, were behind glass. There was just like a sculpture from the 6th century right there; you could reach out and touch it. Of course they had gaurds in every room to ensure that people weren't touching the art work or lounging on antique sofa.
In total there were 3 floors of art work and in the middle of the building was a beautiful garden.


Next we headed over to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). We started it and will finish on Saturday before we fly back home. I will write more about it then. I'll just say for now that after going to Isabella Stewart Gardner it wasn't nearly as excitting being in the MFA; everything was beind plexy glass, the rooms had bright lighting with bland coloured walls. Not at all arranged in a pleasing-to-the-eye fashion. Nevertheless, it does contain marvilous works of art as well.

Sorry, I am trying to attach some pictures, but blogger doesn't seem to be working very well right now.