Rubin Museum

I didn’t really know what the Rubin Museum had, only that it was museum and it possibly had art pieces and sculpture. I didn’t even know whether it was for art purposes like the Met or for history. Needless to say, when I stepped into the museum itself, the first thing that struck me was the beautiful winding staircase it had in the middle of the building. Looking up, it looked like there were many floors to explore and I couldn’t wait to take some pictures of the staircase.

Going through each floor, there was a lot of religious sculptures and paintings done to show their reverence and loyalty to the gods and deities. Many of the statues were sculpted from metal or stone and very few were painted with color. Many of the statues were detailed and I recognized some of the gods because they were similar to the statues that stood in my family’s prayer table at home and in the temple we regularly visit.

Each floor was for a different Asian religion like Hinduism or Buddhism. I’m not a religious person but seeing the work being put into these artifacts really shows me that the people back then devoted a lot of their work onto gods that they believe protected them from evils. Although there wasn’t that many people within the museum, I think that more people should visit because they also had built a structure of what the prayer setting inside a temple looked like. I wanted to take a photo but I felt it was impolite to take pictures even though it wasn’t a real setting to pray.