点评:Far from our first visit to The Art Institute, but every visit here is a wonder. It rivals The Met and MOMA in New York as a top American art museum. And it's so close to other attractions as well as hotels and restaurants downtown/in the Loop. You can even walk to Millennium Park across a bridge from the Modern Wing.
The museum can get very crowded, and has 3 main levels, but note parts of the lower and 2nd level are not connected. We only had a few hours to spend here, so of course did some of the "greatest hits" by Seurat, van Gogh, O'Keefe, Wood, Hopper, Picasso, Monet, Warhol, Pollock, etc. I am particularly fond of the Impressionists, and the Institute had quite a collection from this period.
The biggest discovery for me were the Thorne Miniature Rooms on the lower level of the main building. These intricate miniature rooms were fascinating and impossibly detailed; I especially liked how there were other rooms/gardens visible beyond the main room, and how much attention was paid to the lighting, as if the sun was shining through a window or door.
You can enter the museum off Michigan Ave or via the Modern Wing. There's a cafe and a snack bar, a seasonal garden bar, and a members-only rooftop bar in the Modern Wing. The bridge to Millennium Park is just outside the member's bar.
Always a must visit in Chicago, continuously impressive.
翻译:虽然这不是我们第一次造访芝加哥艺术博物馆,但每次来访都令人惊叹不已。它完全有资格与纽约的大都会艺术博物馆和现代艺术博物馆并列为美国顶尖的艺术博物馆。而且它离市中心的各大景点、酒店和餐厅也都近在咫尺。你甚至可以走过现代馆旁的桥梁,步行前往千禧公园。
博物馆内时常人头攒动,共有三层主要展区,不过请注意:底层和二层的部分区域并未相连。我们这次只在那里停留了几个小时而已。当然,这里也展出了修拉、梵高、奥基夫、伍德、霍普尔、毕加索、莫奈、沃霍尔、波洛克等人的一些“代表作”。我尤其偏爱印象派作品,而该博物馆恰好收藏了不少这一时期的画作。
对我来说最大的惊喜要数主楼底层那些索恩微型房间。这些精心制作的微型空间极其精致且细节丰富得令人惊叹;我特别喜欢的是,从主房间还能看到其他房间和花园的景象。还有人们对灯光的把控也相当用心,仿佛阳光正透过窗户或门洒进来一般。
你可以从密歇根大道进入博物馆,也可以经由现代馆进入。现代馆内设有咖啡馆、小吃吧、季节性开放的花园酒吧,还有一个仅限会员使用的屋顶酒吧。通往千禧公园的桥梁就在会员酒吧的门外。
这座博物馆始终是芝加哥必游之地,永远都令人赞叹不已。