museum of russian icons

250annieb

We have so much fun with classes that visit as a group and it's wonderful to hear you enjoyed it, too! Thank you for writing a review for us and if we're lucky, we'll see you in 2015! All the best.

PigeonCove

Thank you for the review and it's wonderful to hear you enjoyed your visit. We'll pass along your sentiments to Gordon and we hope you'll have the chance to visit with us again, soon!

JanetG610

That's very kind of you to say and thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We're happy you had the chance to view Siberia Imagined and Re-imagined and hope you might visit with us during our next exhibition, due to open late January, featuring icons and artifacts from Ethiopia. Thanks again and all the best!

X4292RWjamesr

Thank you for the review, James. We're so happy you made the long trip and pleased to hear you enjoyed visiting with us.

sullific

Bad or not, your joke made us laugh so thank you for the humor! We also have to thank you for leaving us such a kind and thorough review. It almost renders us speechless. Mainly, we want to take this opportunity to say we're so happy you enjoyed your visit but we'd also like to thank you for helping us to better explain some of the ways we're set up, i.e. the Tea Room (and we hope to see pelmeni available one day, too - our mouth waters just thinking about it) and our galleries. We can't wait for the iPads to be available to visitors and hope you'll have the chance to visit again and see them for yourself. If we're lucky, we'll get to meet your friends and family, too. Thanks again and all the best!

newengland50

We're so happy you enjoyed your visit and thank you for the review! The photographs of Siberia are truly breathtaking, aren't they? The lands literally seemed endless and we love how the photographers were able to capture that in the "Siberia & the American West" section. With your travels to Russia and viewing of the film it's great to hear your experience was engaging and we look forward to your next visit!

drregina

We're happy you enjoyed your visit and thank you for leaving us a review! You're right, the Keurig isn't ideal (especially when compared to those samovars!) but during this time, when resources only allow the Tea Room to be run as a self-serve, honor system, we hope our visitors enjoy the opportunity to sit and reflect or recharge after their visit. We also hope you enjoyed the Kusmi Teas available. The company's back story is pretty interesting and we get a kick out of their Russian-inspired blends. But it's really nice to hear your comments about the staff and our collection - we want nothing more than for you to enjoy your experience. Again, thank you for taking the time to leave a review and we hope you'll have the chance to visit with us again, soon.

CATTSAR

Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We truly can't say it enough - our docents are incredible and we're so lucky to have them. It's great to hear you were able to jump on one of Norman's tours. As you experienced, he has a wealth of knowledge to offer our visitors! It's nice to hear you enjoyed the Shop, too, and we hope you were able to pick out a treasure for yourself as a memento of your visit. We'll pass on your sentiments to Gordon and we hope we'll see you again, soon!

24thIDTraveller

Thank you for the review! It's wonderful to hear you enjoyed your visit and we love how you phrased your experience. "The art is there for all to experience directly before your amazed eyes." We really appreciate it and hope we can continue to bring this experience to all of our visitors.

AmyC69

It's great to hear you were able to visit on Free Fun Friday! We love being a part of it and really commend the Highland Street Foundation for what they do, especially with this program. We hope you had the chance to try some of the delicious kettle corn outside (it knocked our socks off and we will forever hold all other kettle corns to this treat's standard!). We, too, noticed the kids were engaged but not as much as last year. Maybe it was all that kettle corn? Who knows?! But it gave us some future ideas, i.e. spreading our hands-on activities throughout the galleries, etc. We'll just need to work out the possibility of this with our limited gallery space but, all-in-all, a welcomed challenge. Well, again it was great to have you visit! And thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. Hopefully, we'll see you again.

SHHS_11

Great question and we agree - we'd love to help visitors explore this question!. We're so happy to hear you've enjoyed your visits and thank you for bringing friends. We hope we'll get the chance to see you again and thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. All the best!

127keitht

Thank you for stopping in. It's great that we get to share a day with father and son and we're happy to hear you enjoyed both the permanent collection and temporary exhibit. We're still impressed at how they were able to marry the historical exterior with the modern interior and are glad to hear our visitors are enjoying it, too. It's unfortunate you were disappointed by your Tea Room experience but we can understand as it's a very different experience than a traditional Tea Room. We currently don't have the resources to staff that part of the Museum but we wanted to come up with some way for visitors to enjoy traditional Russian snacks like sushka (tea bread) and pryaniki (gingerbread) or have a place to rest after/in-between their visit, hence the self-serve honor system. We hope you enjoyed the samovars on display and when we're able to staff the space hopefully we can serve tea from one! Thanks again for visiting.

heckfy

Wow! Thank you for the review. We're grateful you happened upon us and flattered to have exceeded your expectations! It's great to hear you enjoyed the permanent collection and took advantage of its accessibility (we love when visitors use the gallery magnifying glasses to get close and explore more) and we hope you might have the chance to visit us again.

Hil47

We're glad you enjoyed your visit and thank you for the review! We hope you'll have the chance to visit again.

cararro

Thank you for the review and we hope you enjoyed your visit!