The Savvy Museum Visitor

Behind-the-Scenes at a Museum You've Never Been To But you should!

A fun interview with the executive director of this amazing, tiny museum at the edge of Sequoia National Park. I so appreciate her time to share with us! Please check it out and give her a bit of love!

#museum #preservationsociety #museumstaff #sequoianationalpark #behindthescenes

I was there last summer. An amazing museum!

Where were year a year ago today? I was at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. An amazing museum with lots of stories to tell. Paintings, furnishings, textiles, and more. And of course the courtyard is spectacular!

#museum #art #boston #gardnermuseum

Good for you for finding a way to be connected to museums! I'm a huge believer in local history museums. Small museums tell stories that the big museums - much as I love them - skip over. In fact, one of my upcoming essays on Substack is an interview with the E.D. of a small museum in California.

Wow! The details! The craftsmanship!

Good suggestion! Local history museums share such interesting stories!

I’ve not been but I’ve heard it’s very interesting. And has been through some “interesting” times. :) I need to add it to my list.

Beautiful blue #glass #beads from the late #BronzeAge.

Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology #globalmuseum #museums
@AlisonFisk

Green and butterflies for summer!

Moon flask with gold butterfly and wheat motifs, 1880s. Worcester factory, British. Bone china. Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain. About 11 inches tall.

#art #museum #worcester #bonechina

Cool off! And practice your slow looking skills as you destress. Find both bridges. The people. The animals.

Inn and Travelers in Snowy Mountains by Yuan Yao, 1745. Culture-China. Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk. Met, public domain.

#museum #art #hangingscroll #chineseart #slowlooking #snow

Away from Stress: Into an 18th Century Painting Support your wellbeing

Find a few minutes of calm as you step away from stress and anxiety. Only 4 minutes.

#art #museum #destress #wellness #calm

Admire! Brooch, 1901-2, designed by Charles Ashbee, leader of the Arts & Crafts Movement in England. He designed houses, furniture, jewelry, and more. Gold, silver, enamel, moonstone, topaz, and freshwater pearl. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, public domain.

#museum #ashbee #jewelry #art

Susan M. Ward on Substack A renaissance woman! Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) began painting when she was eight. She studied mineralogy and glaciers under her father's tutelage. She was also a mountain climber and photographer....

Love her delicacy! Love her colors!

#watercolor #art #museum #smithsonian #maryvauxwalcott #wildflowers

13! I know that times were different and lives were shorter, but still…!

I was totally enthralled with the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia! Great art! No labels! I consider it one of my "exceptional museums." Read about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/thesavvymuseumvisitor/p/not-your-usual-museum

#mueum #art #barnesfoundation #philadelphia

The Art Around the Art How Frames Shape What We See. Look with new eyes at frames.

I hope you enjoy this! And I hope you’ll join me on Substack!

#museum #art #frames #lookwithneweyes

Lovely! I haven’t been but I’ve heard about the Crocker.

Gold and swirls. And more gold and swirls. Gorgeous!

As Constable does, he provides us with rich details to get lost amongst. Lovely!

In honor of the bunnies that have been enjoying my backyard clover!

-Moon and White Hare in Snow, probably 1819, by Taisosai Hokushu, Japanese. Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper. Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain.

#art #museum #rabbit #woodblockprint

Fun to see! Thank you!

Imagine you've walked into this painting by Winslow Homer. What do you see? What do you hear? What textures do you feel? What do you smell? What can you taste? You've just created a moment of respite. Take a breath. Now slide back into your day.

#museum #art #beach #winslowhomer #respite #destress

Oh wow! I’m a huge Archibald Knox fan! Wish I could see this. Thanks for the pics!

I hate “liking” this because it’s very, very sad.

Very cool! And quirky! Makes me think of scrimshaw.

Anni Albers was the first textile designer to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1949. She was at the Bauhaus School until the Nazis closed it. She & her husband, Josef Albers, came to teach at Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
#museum #art #textile #annialbers

It's hard not to love this! And it's a great image to create a story in one's mind, to practice our imagination.

Yes, what a frame! When I visit museums, I always take at least a few pics of frames. Such variety!

So fun to see!

What do you see historically? And artistically? Emotionally? We tend to glance briefly at life and art. I advocate slow looking. Studies show that examining art improves our wellbeing.

A Village Street in Auvergne, France, c. 1910. Gelatin silver print. MMA.

#art #museum #photography #france