I love the MFA, but haven’t been there in a really long time.
It has changed quite a bit...and not to my liking.
Used to be the large room that had all the Monet haystacks, where they would surround you in all their glory. Now it is more several rooms, linked ...and you don’t get the same sense of them. They call them *ensembles*.
The Gardner, also on the Fens, for me, is the most charming museum. Many Sundays spent in the Courtyard studying and listening to the chamber music. Great memories of great times.
Then there is the unfortunate robbery.
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/organization/theft