Museum of Fine Arts was huge with a lot of exhibitions. It has restaurants and cafes inside, so it’s worthwhile to spend a whole day. Though you may feel saturated after 3-4 hours. Sketching is encouraged, and I would have loved to try sketching if I had more time. Same as the art museum in Harvard, photo-taking was okay. I looked at arts from Africa and South America, which are hard to find in Japan. Masks used for rituals in parts of Africa were kinda scary, but intriguing. There were also drawing of native American’s habitats when they were first “discovered” by the Europeans. They were living in a self-sustenance life, until their land was taken over by Europeans… It is interesting to see how these kinds of bloody histories are expressed or not expressed in the context of art exhibitions.
What I ended up liking the most is the ultra realistic painting of landscapes in the US in the late 1800s. It may have been influenced by scenes depicted in a similar realistic way in Europe some centuries before that. I will look into it more.
It was around 20 min walk from my hotel to MFA. On the way, I found the symphony hall and Northeastern University. It was interesting. The symphony hall looked quite old, but it may look better in the inside of the hall.
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