Visiting a Museum, Essay Example

I have in the past attended several museums in different parts of the world but my visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was a totally new experience. It was on 17 June 2011 when I visited Metropolitan Museum and this left me with a feeling that it is such a wonderful and adventurous  museum that one cannot afford to miss. On my arrival to this museum, it appeared to as a mini adventure as in approached the museum entrance. The museum is located on the Central park and therefore making it a very convenient location.

Whatever you can admire to see in any museum is available at Metropolitan Museum in New York. My experience in this museum was amazing. The attention of my sight was specifically caught by the colorful paintings that I located in European Masters Gallery. Most of these painting have been posted in the website of Metropolitan Museum and I have constantly been watching and admiring them at the website. Although it appeared to me like I had seen the paintings before, my physical encounter to the paintings was so thrilling that I enjoyed every part of my visit to the museum. The paintings were really humorous as and different from what was depicted in the website (Winifred & Henry, 2007).

The museum gave me an impression of a mammoth variety of properly displayed artifacts to facilitate a comfortable walk through the civilized history while assessing the creation of man over a number of centuries.  The museum was in a true sense comprehensive and activities associated with children were minimal. I personally really liked the museum because it offered me an opportunity to see diverse culture as well as evolution of Native societies in addition to specific tribes. The members of staff in this museum were willing to help me as I toured the museum. I was impressed by the masterpieces of Degas, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Gogh, as well as Matisse. I also enjoyed seeing the sculptures representing the the Greek and the Roman culture, the Asian art, arms as well as armor, American and African sculptures, European decorative and arts, among many others.

I also viewed the Middle Ages along with Rennaissance European classical paintings and the self portrait of the famous Van Gogh. At semi-outdoor hall I met the giant Michelangelo together with Bernini statues that were made by the Reconnaissance sculptors (Winifred & Henry, 2007).  However, majority of the Chinese porcelains had been vandalized at the time of the Opium War along with the Boxer rebellions following Qing Dynasty trounce. Although these artifacts had been kept well, the barbaric actions that were associated with China incursion followed by looting of inherent historical artifacts could not spare the treasured museum (Joan r, 1984).  The artifacts are best suited for a Chinese museum rather than an American museum. As l left the entrance, I felt a deep respect of the museum due to its potential willingness to maintain Chinese artifacts in a perfect state although could not help in condemning the looting, imperialism and invasion on the museum from a political and a nationalist perspective.

References

Joan, R, M., (1984). The publications of Gisela M. A. Richter: A Bibliography Metropolitan Museum Journal 17.

Winifred, E. H. & Henry, W. K., (2007). A history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gilliss Press