If you're willing to travel about 45 minutes west of Boston, visit the
Worcester Art Museum. Its a gem.
Donna Herron
Worcester native now living in Michigan
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, David Formanek wrote:
> Hi Mikhail,
>
> Definitely get to the Harvard Art Museums including the Fogg and the Sackler
> (classical and Asian). Also go to the Harvard Peabody Museum Anthropology and
> Ethnology for Mayan, African, North American.
>
> Be sure to visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
>
> If you get out to the further western suburbs, investigate the DeCordova
> Museum and sculpture park.
>
> For arts of China, Japan, and colonial American life, the Peabody Essex
> Museum in Salem.
>
> If you want to see a tiny, nascent, museum, go to Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum
> in Arlington, right in the center of town. Hours 12-4 daily, on the #77 bus
> line. Third gallery to open this fall. Give me a call if you want to hear how
> we have been putting it together.
>
> I'm afraid that going to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is a political
> statement these days for museum workers, like crossing an invisible picket
> line.
>
> David Formanek
> Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum
> USS Constitution Museum
>
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