go to The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

The first time i went, i immediately fell in love. i was so enthralled i touched a painting to feel the texture and a guard came over.

Ok so the deal was, as a kid, that we went to Boston every other Saturday for 2 museums and if I behaved we got to go to Fanueil Hall for dinner. I always voted for the Children’s Museum or the Museum of Science. Dad always put in for the Aquarium and mom was obsessed with the MFA. I never appreciated the MFA as a kid. It was the biggest, dullest museum. I thought it smelled bad. It was an awful lot of walking for tiny legs. Mom wanted to stop and stare at EVERYTHING (she minored in art history ar Amherst and I think she always wished she’d done something with it). Now I love the Pre-Raphaelites and would just trip out to see Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s work in person. You probably still aren’t going to get me into the mummy room or to see Chinese furniture of the 16th century….but I want the chance to finally appreciate what was under my nose all along. No knocks to the High Museum here in Atlanta, but contemporary just isn’t my thing either.