Field trip to the Getty Museum

This has been such a hectic month that I'd forgotten to post pictures from my latest field trip chaperoning experience. I was asked to help with a field trip to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles on October 9th. I can't believe that we live so close to this musuem and haven't taken the opportunity to go - especially since it is FREE! That's part of the trouble with living close to so many great places. We had an amazing time there but have promised to return since 3 hours is definately not enough time to see everything. The only bummer was that I had to endure almost 5 total hours on the school bus with a bunch of high schoolers. At least they were well behaved high schoolers! Anyway, here are some pictures from our trip:


The museum itself has so many buildings and we only went in a few - this place is HUGE!

Sculpture and drawings by Bernini were the special exhibit. This is the first time this exhibit has left Italy and I'm so glad that we got to see it. I'm in awe of the beautiful sculptures that Bernini did in the early 1600s. I can't imagine how much work it must have been to sculpt marble in such great detail without the modern tools artist have today. The only bummer about this exhibit was that we couldn't take any pictures so I had to find this one on the museum website. It's great, but not my favorite one.

This was Erin's second trip to the Getty and so she wanted to show me some of her favorite paintings. This one was her very favorite. I couldn't get a picture of the whole painting because of the glare, but this is the main part. It's named Christ Crowned with Thorns by Gerrit van Honthorth painted about 1620. Erin loves it because of the use of light.

Another favorite of Erin's is this painting by Rembrandt. It's titled Portrait of a Girl Wearing a Gold-Trimmed Cloak and it was painted in 1632. This painting is on loan to the Getty until the end of December.

We only had time to view the gardens from above. That's another reason we want to return.

Erin was lucky to have Rhett in our group and the two hung out together the whole day. They have become good friends over the years that we have lived here.

Some of the students that were in my group overlooking the gardens. I had 7 students and they were all on their best behavior and always on time at our meeting places. I think that I had the best group of all!