We packed a car load of kids and headed to the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA. The author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. A kid friendly Museum with beautiful illustrations for children and adults alike. With a hands on art studio where kids can create their very own masterpieces. A place where […]
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
We went to see a very special showing of ” Monet’s Water Lilies an Artists Obsession” at the Wadsworth Atheneum. The show featured nine of the 250 paintings devoted to the water lily theme inspired by Monet’s Japanese style garden located in Giverny, Paris. With those examples you could see Monet’s experimentation with color, […]
Smith College Museum of Art
The Museum at Smith College began collecting works in 1879 with a focus on American and European art. Acquiring works of quality, while recognizing the instructional value of preparatory studies and unfinished works. The Museum assembled important works of the nineteenth century, including works by Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, and others. In the […]
Hill-Stead Museum
What makes this museum unique and special is that it is a home. A place that Theodate (the Pope family’s daughter) designed and loved. While the collection of art and artifacts was largely collected by her father Alfred. Some of the paintings were moved in (1950’s) many of them have recently been moved back to […]
Augustus Saint- Gaudens national historic site
The Saint-Gaudens Memorial is a private, non-profit corporation chartered by the State of New Hampshire in 1919, to preserve and exhibit Saint-Gaudens’ home and studios. The trustees operated the site as a museum from 1927-1965, when they donated the property to the national Park Service. The Memorial continues to play an important role as a […]
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is both an art museum and research center, welcoming visitors year-round to experience its outstanding collections of European and American art in an intimate setting surrounded by the profound natural beauty of the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. Set on a 140-acre campus of expansive lawns, meadows, and walking […]
Springfield Museum Quadrange
A number of museums up the hill from downtown Springfield Springfield, MA The Springfield Museums, located in the heart of downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, is comprised of five world-class museums; the Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts., the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, the Springfield Science Museum, the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum and […]
Heritage Museums and Gardens
http://www.heritagemuseumsandgardens.org/ Heritage Museums and Gardens 67 Grove Street, Sandwich, MA 02563 Phone: 508.888.3300
The Jewish Museum of New York City
This is another small museum only in the perspective of being on the NYC Museum Mile by Central Park. The current exhibit (Jan 2010) is of Man Ray, best known as a photographer, is a key member of the Dada and Modernist Movements. Why the exhibit is here was a surprise to us, it turns […]
American Folk Art Museum
American folk art may be remarkable for the cultural clues it holds, but these often become elusive when the artworks are removed from the context of their creation. For the better part of the twentieth century, however, this is exactly how folk art has been perceived, following a museum model that was established early in […]
