Night at the Museum

Tonight both challenged and reinforced my ideas, and how I feel about museums. I have been very lucky in the sense that I’ve been able to have exposure to museums my whole life. I have always appreciated them as a place of history, culture, art, and conversation. Such was reinforced tonight as I had conversations about how we saw different pieces, what struck us, and how we felt about what the artist was trying to convey. It was an intellectual, and social experience that I enjoyed.
However the literal way I see museums (as far as the space itself) was challenged. I have never seen rooms of art organized in the way the rooms were today. It challenged me to think about different aspects of the pieces then I might normally to try and find some connection between everything that was there. Some felt easy (like the use of color, or what was being portrayed), and some were deeper. Like pieces that conveyed the identity of the artist or subject; or pieces that you have to read into the history of what it portrays to see connection.