Preview of the New Wing at the MFA

It happened a long time ago, I know, but the experience was really nice and I must write about that. The members preview was at November 14th, while we’re waiting to go in we saw how the people joined to queue. One minute before going in the situation looked like this:

I have to make a confession I was quite excited to have this privilege with my membership and everybody around us looked to feel the same as us.

The MFA gave to us the Boston Globe Magazine with a full illustrated article about the New Art of the American wing to make all of us more anxious about our imminent entrance.

I’ve been at the MFA for several times since I’m living in Boston, we bought our Memberships after our first visit because we knew that the Museum worth more time to absorb and enjoy all the expositions, but this visit was special, being direct witness of such as big event in my new city.
The opening came at 12:00 pm and… up the stairs, inside the building and the expectation of a child in Disney World. We went directly to the second floor, 19th century and early 20th century art. During all my education period the teachers that I had in Art or history spoke to me about European artist and European history. The discovery of new American painters (for me obviously) is a pleasant sensation that I experiment every time that I visit the museum.

I highly recommend at least one visit to the museum if you don’t know it yet.

These are some of the work of art that you can find at the second floor of the MFA.

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

After six months living here this Saturday comes the moment to visit The JFK Library and Museum.

 I have to say that JFK is the American president which I know more of his life but after this visit I realized that I didn’t know anything about him.

The building is in a beautiful location at the waterfront. The Pavilion is the most fantastic part of the building designated by I.M. Pei, the Chinese and American architect who designed the John Hancock Tower too.

Inside the Pavilion you feel an interior indescribable peace while you enjoy the sea with Boston city at the back , your mind think about the exposition that you just have seen and you think that was really unfair that somebody could devised a plan to assassinate him and deprive the world of such genius.

As a European person I knew that JFK was a good president that everybody loved him but I didn’t know a lot of details of his life that made me admire a man that risk his life for his believes. I think that he did that a lot of things that some of the good Americans presidents thought that were correct but hadn’t got the courage to do it or even to express aloud.

His pacifist inaugural speech was something that now still being shocked after fifty years and made you wonder how would have been the world if he had had time to carry out all of his presidential goals.

I was really surprise as well with Jackie’s cultural work, with her renovation of the White House, with her way of promoting the arts and, definitely, with her way of preserve and protect America’s cultural heritage.

We had a fantastic visit guided for a fantastic member of the museum who answered to all of our questions and explained the exhibition showing a huge knowledge of JFK life.