Rubin Museum of Art

The Rubin Museum of Art was an enlightening experience, in that I now know what sort of museum I have very little interest in. I’m not sure what it was about the museum that turned me off initially, but I found myself uninterested at the very beginning of the visit. However, the one thing that I was intrigued by was the shrine room that they had on the second floor. That was the one part of the museum that I enjoyed because it felt surreal, as if I were surrounded by large speakers of monks murmuring rituals. I experienced something similar to this during a visit to China but I was never able to control the situation as well as I could here. I sat in the room for about 10 minutes looking for the loops in the audio track. It felt really different to be in that sort of environment even for 10 minutes. But, besides that, I found very little interest in the statues that were at the museum mainly because I wasn’t able to touch or relate to any of them. It was a good experience nonetheless.