We asked our staff, “What’s a museum exhibit or experience that you’ll always remember?” Find out what our most memorable museums are in this month’s Staff Sound-Off.
We visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and I think that was the best single-artist museum I’ve seen. He was a tortured soul, and the last exhibit is a black and white photo of his headstone beside the headstone of his brother, Leo, who cared for him before he died.
— Mac Lacy, Publisher
My daughter Macy’s eighth grade trip to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
— Telisa Rech, Advertising Sales Manager
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
— Sarah Sechrist, Controller
T he National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York City was such a powerful experience throughout. The museum really brought to life the magnitude of the tragedy and the heroism of that day in a thought-provoking and respectful way.
— Rachel Crick, Associate Editor & Project Manager
A King Tut exhibit came to Denver Museum of Natural History in the 1980s. I found it fascinating and I’ll never forget the kind Egyptian man who wrote my name in hieroglyphics.
— Donia Simmons, Creative Director
O ne of the most impactful exhibits I’ve seen was Pompeii: The Exhibition. We grow up learning about this major event in history and all that historians are discovering about the ancient world through the preservation of Pompeii and Herculaneum, but seeing the items and casts of the victims brought their humanity and the scope of the tragedy to life for me.
— Ashley Ricks, Print & Digital Publishing Manager
I ’ll never forget visiting the Art Institute of Chicago as a senior in high school and seeing Georges Seurat’s famous painting “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.” I had seen it replicated in textbooks and other media many times, but standing in front of the actual painting was a different story. I was amazed by the size of it — so much larger than I expected — and the experience brought Impressionism to life for me in a way I had never experienced.
