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jenettGood morning!
Topic of the week
I am going to what should be a really fascinating curator tour at a museum tomorrow, and I'm looking at another visit to another museum in February.
Do you go to museums? Do you like going to museums? (Or exhibits, or art galleries, or anything else vaguely in that category?) What do you love about it? What is harder for you, or you wish museums did differently.
(And of course, any other topic you're interested in, also fair game.)
What I've been up to
It has been such a week at work, and with weather (I'm near Boston, and our weather on Sunday was snow, freezing rain, and sleet. Give me good honest snow over the latter two any day.) And then it was 55 yesterday, so basically it's all melted off.
Anyway, I'm exhausted, which is not so great because I have a bunch of things that need doing.
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Topic of the week
I am going to what should be a really fascinating curator tour at a museum tomorrow, and I'm looking at another visit to another museum in February.
Do you go to museums? Do you like going to museums? (Or exhibits, or art galleries, or anything else vaguely in that category?) What do you love about it? What is harder for you, or you wish museums did differently.
(And of course, any other topic you're interested in, also fair game.)
What I've been up to
It has been such a week at work, and with weather (I'm near Boston, and our weather on Sunday was snow, freezing rain, and sleet. Give me good honest snow over the latter two any day.) And then it was 55 yesterday, so basically it's all melted off.
Anyway, I'm exhausted, which is not so great because I have a bunch of things that need doing.
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Date: 2019-01-26 09:57 pm (UTC)I have an issue with crowds in museums. I don't like to be rushed. So things like the Uffizi in Firenze (Florence) or the Louvre in Paris are tough for me. Smaller museums, like the Picasso museum in Antibes, or some of the Roman antiquities museums in Italy, usually are a lot better. Though, I'd rather plan an entire day around a museum that has multiple collections vs. try to figure out what to do with the balance of the day once I've seen all there is to see in a 3-room collection.
I also like the "day in the life" stuff that was mentioned previously, but it is exceedingly rare to find those outside of archaeological expositions. (I enjoy the analogous thing in natural history museums for biological specimens.)
One of the best museums I've ever been to was in the Lawrence History Center in Lawrence, MA, USA. It did an excellent job of presenting the struggle of the labor movement around the turn of the 20th century, including the Bread and Roses strike. Apparently, they now have an online version of this exhibition too! It really opened my eyes.