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| The entrance to the museum |
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| A display model of the entire structure |
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| Notice the suspension cable going to its anchor on the right |
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| The copper roof of the restaurant is reflected by the crystal waters |
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| A View from the Crystal Springs Trail |
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| One of the galleries |
Right now the copper roofs of the various structures that make up the beautiful new Crystal Bridges Museum blaze like burnished gold in the winter sunlight. In a few years, however, they will be coated with the patina of age, becoming blackish-brown or teal in color. When the spring rains soak the surrounding hillsides and temporarily stain the crystal ponds, I suspect that the greenish roofs may vaguely resemble three turtles sipping from a mud hole. . . . And since the museum has been designed from the start to fit unobtrusively into its surroundings, I think the architect Moshe Safdie and the founder Alice Walton will be well pleased. By blending with the most earthy aspects of its American setting, this structure will only distinguish itself all the more as an architectural masterpiece and an American museum of the very first rank.
The best source of information on the Crystal Bridges Museum is, of course, the
official museum web site.
A fascinating interview with museum founder Alice Walton is available at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ca8FLZlu08
Finally, an informative article about the Walton family and its various endeavors is available at
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/11/15/8191093/index.htm
I am not an art critic so the various snapshots I took as experiments in cell phone photography are presented below without comment except for my brief descriptive captions.
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| A distinctly unusual family portrait |
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| An angry-looking child |
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| 10 Indians |
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| Boating women |
