Hey hey! I have just recently gone to the RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) Museum, since I’ve never been. It was actually quite fun and interesting, so here I am, to tell you about it!

The museum is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and we went with a friend and her daughter. We started out in the “modern” section – these were pieces of art that were made in recent years (or this year, I can’t remember which). Anyway, we headed upstairs to the other part of the modern section. And that’s where I learned that you couldn’t take pictures of anything made after 1900 because of copyright issues. It was difficult to mask my boiling rage. Fortunately, before I found out, I managed to snap a few photos (Don’t tell!), so here they are.

After that exhibit, we walked over to the Egyptian Gallery. Obviously, this stuff was WAY before 1900, so I could take as many pictures as I wanted (Yay!). It had lots of interesting things, from an Egyptian scarab beetle (which are actually dung beetles) to an Egyptian sarcophagus. While I was walking around, I found out that everything in the room, even though it looked like art, had some sort of religious or practical use back in those days. In fact, there was no word for “art” in the Egyptian language. Yeah. I was pretty shocked. Anyways, here are the pics I took in there. By the way, on a lot of the pictures I’ve taken in this post, they are clear enough so that you can zoom in and actually read the signs.

Our next stop was the Asian Gallery. In this section, there were lots of religious objects, like a statue of the head of Buddha, and a statue of him sitting. In one room, there was even a bride box for carrying the bride of a wedding in. I wouldn’t mind staying in it for a while. It was quite fancy inside the bride box, with paintings for walls and even a tea set, all crammed in there! Here are the pics. By the way, all of these pictures are of Buddhist objects with the exception of the painting. The painting is Taoist, another religion.

The next exhibit was the Painting Gallery. Now we were getting more modern. These paintings even included a painting by Van Gogh himself! Other artists included Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Claude Monet. I couldn’t take many pictures because a lot of it was after 1900, but here are the ones I managed to get!

Next, we walked over to the HUGE Grand Gallery. So many paintings that you needed an entire guide to identify them, because if you put a sign next to a painting to tell what it is, you would confuse the sign with about five other paintings! My guess is that these were Baroque age paintings. What’s your opinion? Have a look.

Our next destination is what I’m guessing to be the Renaissance Gallery. Art here included a painting of the crucifixion, and a statue of the Greek god Apollo. In the next room, there were lots of paintings, but they were all made after 1900! Sorry guys. However, here are the pictures I got to take in the Renaissance Gallery.

After that we went outside to the garden to take a rest. Here’s what it looked like.

When we went back in, we were in the last section of the museum. It was all stuff from recent years! Sorry again. I found out about a husband and his wife, Herbert and Dorothy Vogel. The Vogels loved to collect art, mostly drawings. They crammed it all into their small apartment, and when they bought a real home they gave it away. However, they had enough art to divide it into 50 sections, and since there are 50 states, each state got some art! It turn out that Rhode Island’s art from the Vogels was right there in the museum! It was all mostly drawings. In fact, two-thirds of the Vogel’s art was drawings.

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