Word: museum
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...bucolic sculpture park, where modern form becomes the temptation of a jungle gym. Sadly, while "interaction" is encouraged, climbing is forbidden. The museum itself exhibits modern and contemporary American art, mostly by New England artists. The aim and presentation of the DeCordova is didactic, which results in an irritating excess of wall-text. Recent figurative painting is the perennial favorite here...
...FOGG ART MUSEUM...
...Founded in 1891 by Elizabeth Fogg in memory of her husband, the Fogg is the oldest museum on campus. (The original museum was located on the current site of Canaday Hall.) Most notable is the museum's eloquent collection of Ingres paintings, its post-Impressionist holdings (including a gorgeous Gaugin and a Van Gogh self-portrait), and its well-rounded representation of seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish painting (including a Rembrandt.) Other exhibitions worth noting: "The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection," (a stunning collection of masks from Western and Central Africa), "Sublimation: Art and Sensuality...
...BUSCH-REISINGER MUSEUM...
...Quincy St,. located in the Fogg Art Museum (T: Harvard Square...