Conference & Exhibition - Guest Tours
The “Grande Dames” of Art History
(full-day tour)
Tuesday, September 23
You will start the morning with an audio tour at the Museum of Fine Arts. The MFA opened during America’s centennial year in 1876 and today is one of the world’s most comprehensive art museums. Its extensive collection includes an estimated 450,000 objects, from contemporary works to textile and fashion arts, photographs and musical instruments.
After the MFA, lunch will be served at the prestigious Harvard Club of Boston overlooking magnificent Commonwealth Avenue, one of the city’s Paris-like boulevards.
Next you will tour the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which includes three floors of international art surrounding a courtyard garden. Isabella Stewart Gardner first welcomed visitors to her museum on New Year's Day in 1903. On that evening guests listened to the music of Bach, Mozart, and Schumann, gazed in wonder at the courtyard full of flowers, and viewed one of the nation's finest collections of art. The Gardner Museum has remained essentially unchanged since its founder's death in 1924. In 1990, the museum was the site of one of the world’s most famous art heists when 13 works were stolen, including those by Rembrandt, Degas and Manet. You are still able to see where these famed works once hung.
When:
Bus leaves at 9:30 am, returns by 3:00 pm (wear comfortable shoes)
Cost: $95
Lunch: Included