Wednesday, October 24, 2007
New wing at the Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC has (re)opened its education center, all 25 thousand feet of it, and it sounds fantastic. Back when I was a sweet young thing, about two or three millenia ago, I went there on Saturday mornings for various and sundry art and sculpture classes. Now Tony Bennett, among others, can avail himself of the education center's offerings and opportunities. The education programs include all kinds of things from workshops for children and teachers, family programs, drawing classes and independent study for teenagers (that must be fantastic!). There are also programs for adults, from lectures and drawing classes to "Touch Tours" for those who are blind or partially sighted (which I suppose is different from those of us did who've snuck a quick feel of a Michelangelo or a Rodin, risking banishment from the kingdom just to get a sense of what it's really all about). When I was a kiddie, it was called the Junior Museum, the place where we went to learn; it had exhibits geared to us not-quite-whole people. Now it's inclusive and bigger and better, of course. It sounds wonderful and I can't wait to go!
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