Boston Museums Visit

Wind and a slight chill met us on April 26 ^th when 21 of us went to visit some museums in Boston, Massachusetts. We spent the morning at  Museum of Fine Arts, touring between more than 450,000 works of art spanning over four millennia, from ancient Egypt to Rothko.  It was great to see art from just about every period we have studied in the past two years.  After lunch in Fenway Park, (not the baseball stadium) at a memorial of World War II, we went to visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. This museum was robbed in 1990 by two thieves with a particular taste for art. They got away with thirteen paintings worth around $500 million. The thirteen empty places were still there when we visited. It is a special museum similar to the Frick Collection in New York in that it was built by a private citizen and reflects her tastes.