Frick Museum

A Teenager’s Perspective:

This place isn’t so huge, not like the Met or Natural History, but it does seem just as old. And kinda smells like it too. I wonder when all this stuff was made. Hey cool! Sweet – that old guy walking around with that lady seems to know a lot about everything here. Wait a minute. This was some dude’s house? This place is GINORMOUS! What are those bell sounds? Those old-school clocks work? Hmm… time is wrong, but oh snap! they still work! Stuff in museums never work! Awesome!

Metropolitan Museum

Stadium sized stoop to sit and have a bite
The building’s massive, but not too bright
Inside spaces with outside places
Recreated from the now devastated

A maze that lays out history
To uncover some mystery
Juxtaposed incongruity
An expo for you and me

We’re supposed to experience
Cultural significance
Through fragments and ornaments
And temperature controlled environments

But the roof is the room with the real view
A sky blue, or gray, or whatever that day
There’s something I can definitely touch and feel
Trees and buildings in a scene more surreal
Than surrealism

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