When it comes to beating the sweltering heat or ducking away from the torrential downpour in St. Petersburg this Summer, there are few things to do that are as wildly interesting and insightful as a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts.
This massive downtown museum is an educational mecca in St. Pete that hosts a diverse assortment of rotating exhibitions from the past and present all throughout the year. This summer, the Museum of Fine Arts will host three exhibitions, each sure to stimulate and teach you a few things you didn't know before walking through the museum doors.
The first featured exhibition currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts is titled Picturing a New Society. It features photographs from the Soviet Union's communistic period that lasted from the 1920's through 80's. The exhibition aims to explore the contradictions between the idealistic images and the day-to-day reality of living in the U.S.S.R. during this time period.
The next exhibition is titled Global + Local and highlights works from an eclectic assortment of brilliant glass artists living on the west coast of Florida. The exhibition contains over 100 works pulled from over 10 collections located on Florida’s West Coast and will showcase some of the area’s best glass, rarely presented to the public.
The final exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts is an ongoing, but no less insightful one called Sitter and Subject. It contains are 60 nineteenth-century daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes (old portraiture) that reveal the faces and lives of those living in the early 19th century.
Tickets to the Museum of Fine Arts are $17 for adults, $15 for seniors 65 and older and military with ID, $10 for students with ID, $10 for kids ages 7 to 18, and free for kids under 6. For more information on the Museum of Fine Arts and all its great summer events, visit www.fine-arts.org.
