My Name is...Isabella
Posted by Khalida Al-Sulaiman
Boston is an artistic city, and the people themselves have given the city this characteristic. Some of the arts that we see in Boston are new, while others have survived centuries. On New Year's Day 1903, the Gardener Museum opened up and the people of Boston experienced art through all their senses. I consider the Gardner Museum to be a home, not a museum. Museums to me are more formal and stiff, but the Gardner Museum is cozy and you can actually feel that people have lived here and left us the gift of art. Every single corner in the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum is significant and detailed. The garden in the museum collaborates with the colored walls and the honey-colored stairs. Art in all its forms exists here. The architecture of the museum gives the museum its charm.
The Gardner Museum has also experienced a big theft mystery that still remains unsolved. In 1990, art thieves entered the museum and tied up the security guards. They walked out with 13 pieces including the Storm on the Sea of Galilee.
The best fact about the museum is that if your name is Isabella... you never have to pay for an admissions ticket. Isabella Stewart Gardner intended the museum to be the home for all Isabellas.
Posted: April 27, 2009 4:21 pm | 1 comment
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The Gardner Museum is my favorite and your description was spot on. I am not an art-museum person, but my first visit here was overwhelming. The fact that it wasn't a picture in a frame on a big white wall made me part of the experience instead of being just an observer.
I didn't know that about the name... That is neat.
said Love Nickerson
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