This is the $114M addition to the museum. It was designed by Renzo Piano, one of the hot architects of the moment. The challenge was to attach a modern building to an antique building.
This woman was a great collector and decided to create a museum to display the things she collected. In her will she directed that no painting could be moved from where she had placed it. Now it's over 100 years later and there are great masterpieces hung in the most inconspicuous places. It's like a treasure hunt to find them.
This is where the new meets the old.
This is the main atrium. She collected all of the architectual artifacts on trips to Europe.
She also lived here on the 4th floor after her husband died. It's very close to Fenway Park. She was a huge baseball fan.
This is one of the bathrooms in the new wing. Architects go crazy when designing bathrooms in museums.
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