Importance Of A Trip To A Museum

I knew from the first day the class was introduced to this writing assignment that I was going to visit the MFA. The reason for this is because ever since i was a child, I have had an interest in museums. My dad always used to bring me to the museum of science when i was younger and the children’s museum and i loved both, if i could have gone everyday, I would have. Also, I knew that i had been to the MFA before a field trip and wanted to revisit. I did briefly brainstorm a couple of other places that I could have visited. With the last name of Adams, i of course have visited every local historical site involving John and Abigail Adams since i was a child. So i have already exhausted those places in my brain. The museum seemed like …show more content…
His facial expression was specifically focused on, to correspond to the events at the time. This reminds me of how nowadays we can simply just snap a picture with our cell phones or digital camera to capture a specific moment. But, during this time the only thing they could do was paint a picture and put in as much detail as possible. I can only imagine how frustrated these painters/artists would be if they saw how little credit they got for these paintings. This is of course my opinion but, when learning about these historical figures and shown pictures in history books and class, we get a nice visual of what the person actually looked like to help us put a name to a face. But I have never heard of anyone actually communicating the artist who actually painted the picture. If it wasn’t for them we may not know what any of these people looked like, maybe even our first presidents. One of those presidents being the most famous George Washington. As I mentioned before, the painting of Washington was one of the first I saw. It caught my eye because it looked like the artist stopped painting it halfway through. Apparently, Gilbert Stuart who painted this picture, used the picture of George Washington as a model to help him paint over 50 other …show more content…
Anyways, it was cool to see that at a museum because it showed me how lucky I am to live in a town that has such a wide historical background. On the topic of buildings, there was one particular painting that caught my attention. That being, Boston’s Exchange Coffee House Burning of 1818. The reason why it stuck out to me was because it wasn’t as nice or pleasant as the other paintings I saw, it showed buildings up in smoke and burning which made me want to read into it a little more. Apparently this building was the largest in Boston and the Tallest in the United States which I found really interesting, also that it all burned down because of a small fire that started in the building. A short while before we left the museum we took one last look around trying to figure out if we missed anything. We felt very out of our element looking at a lot of very sophisticated people like professors, artists and professionals dressed in suits and long dresses. Granted, I was dressed nicely but these people seemed very strict and concentrated on every aspect and every detail of each individual piece of art. Although I did learn a lot of new information and saw a lot of things I had never seen before, which I’m glad about, it was one of those places where I don’t think I could spend over a