Get an overview of the city by exploring the range of sculptures and installations dotted throughout Boston. Historic and contemporary works mingle making street art a significant part of the Boston experience.
Visit the Museum of Fine Arts to experience a vast range of places and themes including French Impressionism and Post Impressionism by Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Investigate eighteenth and nineteenth century American Art, such as works by John Singer Sargent. The Japanese collection is the largest outside Japan. Discover Art of the Americas in the wing designed by Norman Foster as well as pre-Columbian and Mayan works, African American Art and works by significant individual artists.
Challenge your students to consider what makes good art and then visit the Museum of Bad Art, which tries to bring the worst in Art to wide audiences with travelling and changing exhibitions.
The Harvard Art Museums have a huge collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and photography, including American Art, modern and contemporary works. For cutting edge international Art visit the Institute of Contemporary Art.
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5 Days to Boston
Day 1:
Travel to Boston by air. Transfer to your accommodation and check in. Time permitting visit the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Day 2:
Spend the majority of the day exploring Boston on foot. Enjoy the public art and some of the city's major attractions. Visit the Harvard Museum of Art. Return to your accommodation.
Day 3:
Spend most of the day at the Museum of Fine Arts, enjoy a guided tour. In the afternoon visit the Boston Institute of contemporary art.
Day 4:
Take the Boston Duck Tour, a guided tour which tours around the city on land and on water. In the afternoon transfer to the airport for your overnight return flight.
Day 5:
Early morning arrival back in the UK.
