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
There seems to be a real drive on to isolate individual works of art (as if visitors are all afflicted with ADHD, apparently), leaving museums the proud display surface of Sherwin-Williams. It is annoying, at best. Naturally, my favorite rooms in the MFA start (or started) at the Egyptian room, which begins with Old Kingdom and winds up making an exit into Greek and Roman stuff. Pretty much wanted to rent an efficiency in the attic overlooking the place and just stay there.