Frye Museum

                The Frye museum was next on our list of activities. The entry’s effect depends on which entry you choose. There is an entry that goes into a small waiting room then into the main lobby, but the one I chose to focus on was the ADA accessible entry way. The entry way glides up a steady slope with a beautiful modern art piece standing in calm water to your left, which adds a physical trait to the building of sleek modern design. As soon as you enter the building however, it turned into a golden section type dome with two large windows stretching high on either side flooding the doorway with natural light. There was also a skylight put into the top of the dome like structure that floods the main passageway with light and causes you to venture further into the museum. The entry way was definitely my favorite part as I could see all of what the designer was describing to us in clear form. That being said, the rest of the interior was bland and rather boring. This may be due to the tour seeming to end shortly after the entry way, but I saw little to no architectural integrity throughout. I did see a café attached to the museum with large windows looking to the public and large floor to ceiling windows that illuminated a room off of the café, but that was all that sincerely caught my eye. Human interaction in the space, in my perspective, would be completely focused on the art pieces being shown in the museum, which held up well with the basic museum layout and design. I honestly do not understand modern art so the art part of the tour was lost on me, but I found the rock garden in the center of the café/museum to be astounding.