Thursday, November 5, 2015

Beautiful Boston Public Library @ Boston, Massachusetts

It's hard to believe that a humble looking library building from outside but have a spectacular architecture inside. This place was not in my place to visit initially. But from exterior of this library seems fascinating. From the old books, to the courtyard and beauty of every room, it's worth your time to visit. The Reading Room upstairs is a lovely place to sit and read among many people. The reading room is like hogwarts as in Harry Potter movie. Amazingly Boston public library is the second largest library in United States. The library also full of history and unique architecture as it was more than 100 years old and established since 1852.



Boston Public library. Their slogan: Built by the people and dedicated to the advancement of learning.

Beautiful lobby.

Stairs to the main reading room.

Main reading room.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Tour inside Harvard University @ Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvard University is the world's most prestigious and influential. It is one of the eight Ivy league institution of higher learning. Visitors to Boston will include Harvard University as one of the must visit places as the university is so well known and full of history. The university also have many notable alumni such as Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, John F. Kennedy and Bill Gates. The university is so successful that it even have a large endowment of more than USD30 billion to support its research, museums, library and offer financial aid to their students. At that amount of endowment it easily exceed some of the countries Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Harvard university alumni include eight USA President, head of states from around the world, 60 billionaires and about 150 Nobel laureates. That's an amazing feat!


Main gathering point of Harvard students.

The famous Leavitt & Peirce shop selling unique gifts, tobacco and antique games.

This is what Leavitt & Peirce have on their main display. Pipes, hardware and antique games.


The Harvard Crimson is the official publication in Harvard University.


Harvard Book Store. Selling internal Harvard Publication.


Inside Harvard Book store.


Enter To Grow in Wisdom.

Student activities posting.

Sever hall contains small classrooms and lecture halls. It is a US historic landmark.

Unique architecture of Sever hall. The archway admitting entrance into the west facade possesses an acoustical oddity. Whispering directly into the bricks of the archway, can be heard clearly on the other side of the arch.

Monday, November 2, 2015

Harvard Art Museums @ Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Harvard Art Museums is part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The art collections are particularly good for World History study. The collections cover a vast history of art, ranging from Ancient Greece and Rome, China, the Middle East, as well as great masterpieces from Europe and the Americas.


Harvard Art Museums.


Main lobby of the museum.

Painting by Paul Delvaux. Painted in 1938 oil on canvas, The Greeting (The Meeting).

Woman in the night by famous Spanish painter Joan Miro.

Poemes Barbares by Paul Gauguin.

Landscape of bathing women by Erich Heckel from Germany.