The Museum of Fine Art in Boston is not a museum to be tackled lightly; I've been twice and still have not seen it all. Between by two trips over summer and Thanksgiving, I have tried to catalogue the pieces from the AP Art History 250 curriculum owned by the MFA with their locations (exactly like [...]
Tag: museums
Museums with Kids (& Fidgety Adults)
I don’t have any kids personally but I have visited museums with kids (& my dad, which is pretty much the same thing lol). Museums are totally doable with families, you just have to make some modifications to make it enjoyable and understandable for all abilities. Play “I Spy” This game is really fun and [...]
Art History Hunting in D.C.
I was in Washington, D.C. a couple of weekends ago with an old AP Art History/ Humanities student of mine to go museum hopping and as you can image we ran into a few of the pieces from the AP Art History 250 curriculum. Take a look below: Migration Series, Jacob Lawrence Panel no. 49 [...]
Weekend in D.C.: Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting
So shockingly enough it took me into my mid-twenties to finally go see the fantastic collection at the National Gallery of Art. Will and I stopped by for the day while heading up to New York City on our summer road trip. And then I found out that the exhibit "Vermeer and the Masters of Genre [...]
The Mega Met
So while in NYC this past summer, I decided to make a little art history game: I wanted to see if it was at all humanly possible to spend ALL DAY at The Metropolitan Museum and see "it all." The short answer is no and I would never recommend it to anyone. 🙂 However, it [...]
