I look forward to nothing more than revisiting my favorite museums in Italy and finding new ones to explore but I am the first one to engage in inappropriate behavior if I have to share my space with too many people; I mutter under my breath, I give dirty looks to anyone lingering too long by the signs I’m trying to read, and I passively-aggressively stand in front of anyone who has broken my unwritten rules of behavior. So I feel your pain if you’re dragged to the museum or just go because it’s there when you’d rather be hunting down some gelato. Maybe I can help.
If you call in sick while your travel companions are at the following museums, you will not have missed much, and the following recommendations are based on my very humble, very unprofessional opinion, with no offense intended toward these fine institutions:
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Lucky you: you have the opportunity to see some of the most famous works of art in the entire history of the world while in Italy, so don’t blow it! There’s a fine line between doing it right and overdoing it and ending up trudging aimlessly through the exhibit rooms while rotating your gaze from left to right, seeing it all yet seeing nothing. Everyone, even the most ardent of art appreciators, is capable of hitting the proverbial wall (if not the actual wall if you’re walking on auto-pilot.)
Once, on a visit to the Uffizi, I had mapped out my must-see masterpiece list that turned out to be overly ambitious. Continue reading Museums in Italy You MUST Visit →
Ever since I was a little girl it was my great desire to see the cathedrals and museums of Italy. My tiny little white Catholic Missal had tiny little pictures of St Peter’s Cathedral in Rome, The Shroud of Turin, The Pieta’; my young Catholic mind formulated my own bucket list that ended up changing the direction of my life once I finally got to Rome and met my future husband.
My first trip to Europe was the summer before my junior year in college with one sister and two friends, and I carefully orchestrated our itinerary knowing full well that the others would go along with my program as long as I kept us close to pastry shops and the occasional McDonald’s. Continue reading Art Unappreciation →
Italian Travels and Itineraries
