The Metropolitan Museum Of Art was a site to see. I must say this was the worst experience i had. To start with i have no car to get to New York So i had to rent one. That cost me a pretty penny but because it was for school i did it. I went on Map quest to directions because I had been there before. When we got to five avenue we realized that we could not find it. I know you must be saying but it is so big, but there is no sign that says "The Metropolitan Museum Of Art. We drove in circles for about one hour until we finally found somewhere to park and walked and asked people who directed us to the museum. By the time we got there it was 7.30pm. So when i went inside I must say it was beautiful it wa so big an there were people everywhere.
My boyfriend and I went and paid out admissions. Which i must say was pretty high twenty dollars. We proceeded up the stairs and i quickly got my camera ready. When I tried taking my first picture the security guard quickly yell "No Photographs" So i went to him and i said " I am on a school assignment there must be something i can get a picture of" He Said " I am sorry mam but there is no picture taking allowed the lady downstairs should of told you that" I was very upset because i was trying to do my assignment and i couldn't so i said well maybe we could do it in the gift shop.
When i went to the gift shop i was able to take two pictures before the same security guard that was upstairs told me that i had to leave because he had already told me that there was no photography. So i got kick out of a museum which i found very embarrassing. I took pictures of the outside so i could prove that i was there but i am very upset that i paid all that money to get there and only spent 10 mins in the museum and got to see nothing. The two pictures i took i wasn't able to even look what it was because the security guard came so quickly. Sp i can't even explain who or what the statues were about.
I enjoyed every other museum that i attended throughout this course but i must say this was the worst. I don't have alot of money, so to lose it in that matter makes me really upset. I unfortunately lost my car before the mod was over so i tried to continue to do my assignments. It is very tough for me.
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Yikes! So sorry you had such a bad experience! You should have taken the train from New Haven... early in the morning and given yourself time to get there in time to have a full day rather than arrive 1/2 hr before closing...
I did write to everyone at the beginning of class that admission to the museum is a voluntary donation... although the "suggested" donation is $20, most of the time visitors give much less... students get in all the time for a quarter to a dollar....
I also wrote that photography is very much allowed for work that the museum owns and that as long as you don't use flash, there is never any problem. You must have been trying to photograph in a "special" exhibit of borrowed work.
This could have been such a great outing for you.... the late start and the rented car were both mistakes that prevented you from getting the most out of the day.
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