On Sunday, December 13, from 1 – 4 pm, the Forbes House Museum will present its benefit Holiday House Tour. Visit a selection of gorgeous and unique Milton homes decorated for the holidays. $18 for Forbes Museum members, $20 for non-members, $25 at the door. Tickets will be on sale at the Museum, 215 Adams Street in Milton, and at select Milton businesses. For additional information, call 617-696-1815, or log on to www.forbeshousemuseum.org.
You may purchase tickets for the 2009 Beacon Hill Holiday House Tour, taking place Sunday, December 13 from 12 noon – 4:00 pm, by logging on to www.nicholshousemuseum.org. Tickets are $100 each for Nichols House Museum members, $120 for non-members.
Gibson House Museum Executive Director Charles Swift will give an illustrated lecture on the history of the creation of Boston’s Back Bay, discussing the events which led to the decision to fill the Back Bay (see early photo of Back Bay fens below) and the history of the earliest buildings in the Back Bay. Date: October 21, 2009 at the Gibson House Museum, 137 Beacon Street, Back Bay. Reception at 5:30 PM, Program at 6:00 PM. Free for museum members, $10 for non-members. Reserve by calling 617 267 6338 or email the Gibson House Museum.
We all live in two worlds: the natural and the symbolic. Our expectations, memories, and the reality of death play a significant role in our lives. There is a rich landscape tradition that evokes many natural and symbolic responses to our ephemeral existence, the afterlife, burial customs, and memorialization. In five programs from October 2009 through March 2010, a series entitled “The Landscape of Eternity” explores some of the ideas and expressions of these landscapes of memory. The Landscape Visions Lecture Series is made possible by a bequest from Jeanne Muller Ryan. The first program, on October 24, in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will be given by garden designer and historian Marc Peter Keane.
In Heian Japan, Amida Buddha’s Western Paradise was recreated in elaborate estate and temple gardens. Within this symbolic landscape, the image of Amida Buddha was enshrined in a hall set on the shore of a pond. Marc Peter Keane explores several of these gardens and their role as a paradise on earth. Tickets: $15 General Public; $12 Seniors; $5 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Members; FREE for Students. Tickets may be purchased on line at www.gardnermuseum.org, or by calling 617-566-1401. Image: Scenes from the Tale of Genji (detail), 1677; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
