Tag: museums

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National Portrait Gallery

We wanted to see the Obama portraits, of course! So off to the National Portrait Gallery we went. A few other cool things we saw. Queen Elizabeth: Edward Hopper: Morris Kanter, also a Nyacker. The newly revealed portrait of President […]

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National Museum of American History

First on our sightseeing docket, the National Museum of American History. A big line to get in! The Batmobile greets you. Suburbia. A Wagoneer. An old subway car: Julia Child’s kitchen: There was a whole food exhibit. Hello, Alice Waters! […]

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Morning at the Met

A morning visit to the Met. We are members this year, so we’ll try to make the most of that! The townhouse in the American Wing: The Temple of Dendur: Sam: Snap the Whip by Winslow Homer: A fun visit. […]

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A Visit to Mass MoCA in North Adams

Our final stop on our whirlwind sightseeing trip to the Berkshires: Mass MoCA, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. It’s in an incredible restoration of old factory buildings in the center of downtown North Adams. Art is everywhere, even the parking […]

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The American Wing at the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art just reopened its renovated American Wing, which displays, according to the Met, “one of the finest and most comprehensive” American art collections in the world. It has George Washington Crossing the Delaware, for one, and […]

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Sam Goes to MoMA

Samantha’s first trip to MoMA was to see the Diego Rivera exhibit. Six of his murals were on display; they were ones for which he was brought here to the museum in 1931 to create. He ended up created portable […]