VT has been our unlikely last chapter to the Worldschooling year, subbing in for Japan. We’ve learned a bit about its history— for 10 years, before it became the 14th state, it was its own sovereign country!— and its flora and fauna. I’m insanely nerdily excited to be able to differentiate between sugar, red, and striped maples, as well as balsam firs, white pines and hemlocks, and silver, yellow and paper birches. But over the last couple weeks, the magnitude of our adventure dawns on me more and more. Lately, what’s been blowing my mind is how many museums we went to. I’m going to see if I can name them all, just as a mental exercise:
Mexico City: Anahuacalli, Trotsky Museum, Pop Culture Museum (in Coyoacán), Castillo in Parque Chapultepec, Templo Mayor
Cuernavaca: Museo Juan Soriano, Casa Cortes/Museo Regional de Morelos, Xochicalco ruins & museum
Oaxaca: Santo Domingo, graphic design library
Mérida: Mundo Maya, Museo Palacio Cantón, Casa Gemelas (gallery), Museo Casa Montejo
Tarragona, Spain: Cathedral and Diocese museum, Museo de Arte Moderno de Tarragona, lots of Roman ruins
Barcelona: Joan Miró Foundation (plus the Park Güell, which is like a giant, outdoor museum)
Madrid: Prado, Reina Sofia
Marseilles: MUCEM, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Bordeaux: Musée d’Aquitaine
Paris: Louvre, Centre Pompidou
Exeter: Royal Albert Museum
London: British Museum (Griffin & Christopher— Aryeh and I went to the Harry Potter play), Science Museum
Torino: Cinema Museum & Automobile Museum
Venice: Peggy Guggenheim, Musical Instrument Museum (that we happened upon accidentally walking home from the Peggy G!)
Florence: Pitti Palace, Medici Chapels (Griffin & Christopher), Barghello Museum
Naples: Castell Sant’Elmo
Catania: Museo Civico Castello Ursino
Rome: MAXXI, Castell Sant’Angelo, Capitoline Museum, VIGAMUS video game museum, Jewish Museum
Pompeii!! And the Valle de I Templi in Agrigento
I think that’s it?! Gonna read it to Christopher and the boys and see if I missed any. We saw lots of ruins, too; I only included Xochicalco outside of Cuernavaca and the ruins in Tarragona because they had some significant indoor museum spaces attached to them… Also, we did a print workshop in Oaxaca at Subterraneos , plus saw many incredible weavers and artisans in Oaxaca and Teotitlán del Valle, who were making jaw-droppingly beautiful creations. Plus if you count the churches EVERYWHERE that had so much gorgeousness. It’s mind-blowing.
