The Springfield Art Museums

On the day we visited the Dr. Seuss Museum, we decided to visit all five of the Springfield museums.  This included two art museums which Alec and I just loved!

Thankfully each of the museums was pretty small so the other two boys were OK with touring them too.

The Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts housed some of my favorite artists' works of the impressionist movement!  We also checked out the White House display they had going of the Kennedy's in the white house and Evan got to sit at the Resolute Desk; which we read all about and remembered hearing about in the National Treasure movies.





Evan got to pretend he was the president of the United States!





The second art museum; the George Walter Vincent Smith Art museum had Greek God inspired sculptures and lots of samurai gear that the younger two boys just loved.  I loved the architecture and the stained glass windows as well as all the pottery art. 














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  1. Dara @ Not In JerseyApril 2, 2018 at 9:58 AM

    I love art museums!

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    1. Mother of 3April 2, 2018 at 4:18 PM

      I do too! Luckily my middle son enjoys them as well so I have an art buddy.

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  2. Sew Crafty CrochetApril 2, 2018 at 8:13 PM

    Museums are so much fun! I would've enjoyed pretending to be the president, too!

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  3. Kelli's Olympic NestApril 2, 2018 at 10:20 PM

    I am always left in awe when I think about the era these artifacts were created in...just beautiful.

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    1. Mother of 3April 3, 2018 at 6:36 AM

      It is pretty amazing what they could create with the tools and supplies they had available. And even more so when you think of how they've held up!

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  4. My PinterventuresApril 3, 2018 at 6:02 PM

    It's great that you take your boys to the museum. I think it's important that kids get to see the beautiful creations and history of past items, especially when we're in a society of use and toss.

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  5. csuhpat1April 4, 2018 at 1:19 PM

    Very beautiful. I love museums. Thanks for sharing.

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  6. Sherry NappaApril 4, 2018 at 6:42 PM

    I can spend days in art museums! So much to take in.

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    1. Mother of 3April 5, 2018 at 6:17 AM

      Me too! We did walk through these rather quickly as we had several young children with us as part of our group but there is so much to see.

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  7. Calypso In The CountryApril 7, 2018 at 3:35 PM

    What great museums! It looks like they had a nice variety of paintings as well as other artifacts. I would love to see that Kennedy exhibit too! Thanks for linking up to Take Me Away this month!
    Shelley

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    1. Mother of 3April 8, 2018 at 9:27 AM

      They really did have a great variety of art. My boys were thrilled to realize it was not just all paintings and portraits.

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