Enjoy the Museum from home!
We hope you and your loved ones are healthy and safe during this challenging time. We miss you! The museum staff is all doing well, and have been working from home since mid-March. We look forward to the day when we can re-open the museum and welcome you back to the galleries.
In the meantime, we hope you've been following us on social media! We've been very active on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, doing our best to keep you amused and relaxed with our #MuseumMomentofZen daily posts, #MuseumfromHome posts and, the recently launched #VirtualTrail posts in collaboration with our friends on the Connecticut Art Trail.We also want to make sure you know that you can enjoy a variety of additional museum content from the comfort of your own home! Here are some of the ways you can stay connected with us:
1. Check out the Museum’s contributions to the Quick Center’s new series “Quick Sessions.” (Click here for museum sessions) I've done two so far, the 1st is a virtual tour of the Cuban art exhibition, and the 2nd is a sneak peek at the upcoming exhibitions that you can look forward to in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries and the Walsh Gallery once the museum reopens, as well as a preview of some new digital content. On May 11th I will do a session in conversation with Steve Certilman about collecting Cuban Art.
2. Explore our collections! Click here and select "Browse the Collections" from the dropdown menu to go to our collections database, or scroll down to read our brand-new catalogue of our Kress Collection of Italian paintings, as well as a downloadable Kids' Guide filled with fun activities!
3. Listen to our audio guides! Click here to check out our audio guides for tours both past and present.
4. Catch up with our lectures and special programs! Click here to see all the content available on our Watch, Listen, and Learn tab. We recently added Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Randall Griffey’s talk celebrating the museum’s 150th anniversary.
5. Dress up your Zoom! Try our new ZOOM backgrounds to give that extra FUAM flair to your next meeting. You can choose from the following:
-View of Bellarmine Hall
-Henri Rivière, Illustration for March to the Star (detail), 1890, color lithograph (Gift of James Reed)
-Carlo Bossoli, Cape Tokli, on the Gulf of Kertch (detail), 1856, color lithograph (Gift of James Reed) - see above
-Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy, Shared Visions II (Visiones compartidas II), 2014, mixed media on canvas (Collection of Steve and Terri Certilman. ©Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy)
Wishing you all the best,
Carey Mack Weber
Frank and Clara Meditz Executive Director
