Museum Hopper

our first stop in san gimignano was the museo civico, which is in the base of the largest tower.  we bought the combined ticket! we went up to the tower first to beat all the other tourists up there!  the view of the town is fantastic.  all the other towers are visible as well as the surrounding countryside.  it was a very unusual stairwell for an old tower as in it was fairly wide and looked as though the stairs had been added in the last 50 years!  i loved seeing the town square from up above.   the museum was at the base of the tower.  the frescos outside the museum are fantastic.  the items within the museum are not very impressive.  the most impressive items within the museum were actually discovered a few years ago as beautiful frescos.  part of the museum was even under construction.   i could not believe that these frescos were outside for so many years.  they are finally covered with plexiglass! time in museum and tower: 45 minutes times visited: 1 over

jason and i visited the museo archeologico in san gimignano, italy, as part of a combination ticket when we were there on our honeymoon. as part of the tower climb ticket, we decided to spend an extra couple of euros to get access to the other museums in the city.  as i suspected, this part of the museum was not necessarily worth the trek to the other part of town. the museum was comprised of a few different rooms with different archaeological relics.  there were lots of fragments of pottery and relics from the area.  unfortunately, it was just collections of pottery with little explanations in english or stand-out pieces.   we did like these jugs from the representative pharmacy.  i loved them as examples of beautiful tuscan pottery. overall, we could have skipped this museum and been just fine! time in museum: 20 minutes times visited: 1 overall: B-

it has been a while since i have had a museum post!  over the past month, life has gotten in the way.  i have a slew of posts coming up for italy, but i figured i would get this one out of the way!   over the past weekend, i went to nyc with my husband, mom and father for a bar mitzvah.  we went to the whitney  for a quick pop-in before heading to the airport.   we went and saw the classics from the whitney.  i am excited to see that they are getting a new space.  i wish they dedicated more space to the " classics " and less to some of the more outrageous exhibits.  i loved seeing their georgia o'keefe paintings and the stellas.  i had not seen all the alexander calder's wire mobiles since the special exhibit with his circus mobiles! my mom loves edward hopper and they just opened a pretty fantastic new exhibit about him.  it is called hopper drawings .  when edward hopper died, his artistic estate was bequeathed to the whitney.  i loved all of the sketches, wh