Friday, July 10, 2009
Issabella Steward Gardner Museum
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum displays an art collection of world importance, including works that rank among the most significant of their type. Isabella Stewart Gardner collected and carefully displayed a collection comprised of more than 2,500 objects - paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, drawings, silver, ceramics, illuminated manuscripts, rare books, photographs and letters - from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America. Built to evoke a 15th-century Venetian palace, the Museum itself provides an atmospheric setting for Isabella Stewart Gardner's inventive creation.
The museum and the garden are really beautiful. Sadly, we can't take any pictures in there. Probably to preserve the art works better. There are art pieces with Jesus and his disciples as well as with Mother Mary, made with different art techniques used- oil painting, carpeted pictures, photos, etc. It would be better if someone guided us through to help us better understand and appreciate the artworks though. Also, we watched a live jazz performance too! I think that the atmosphere (dim lights, victorian furnitures) compliments the performance itself. Thank God it's neighbourhood nights that we got to do family activities- making jewelry and designing our own foil magnet! I made an anklet for myself using colourful beads and buttons! Other activities are origami and mini treasure chest. These activities are really fun! Children are engaged in exercising their creativity in meaningful ways (the things that they make can actually be put to use) and also honing their motor skills. I feel these materials are easy to find in Singapore and can be used in our own classrooms to do art or even a visual representation of what they had learnt in class.
Cold Stone Ice cream!It's the first time I actually ate ice cream in Boston! Cos the weather is sooooooo cold! Where is summer???
This ice cream is similar to the Marvelous Cream in City Link, Singapore, where they had ice cream mixing on the cold tablet! http://charlinary.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/marvelous-cream/
Yummy!!! That's our strawberry banana rendervous!
Cold Stone Ice cream!
This ice cream is similar to the Marvelous Cream in City Link, Singapore, where they had ice cream mixing on the cold tablet! http://charlinary.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/marvelous-cream/
Yummy!!! That's our strawberry banana rendervous!