Being Ridiculous at the Museum of Fine Arts

In the spirit of April Fools and my tendency to be rather ridiculous, I decided to share a story about my trip to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston that I recently took with my girlfriend. Now, the MFA has been one of my favorite places to go since I was extremely small and I demanded that every birthday/celebration/day be spent there. The reason? Excellent marketing/public relations on the part of my parents.

How did they turn me into such a nerd? By inundating me with cool information, books, and various tours of museums like the MFA. This along with a steady stream of encouragement and PBS programming really made me excited to learn. This desire to learn of course pushed me into my current field of "awesomeness" consulting (marketing/pr consulting for the layman).

Needless, to say I made my girlfriend @SarahFaasse take me here for my birthday. I was allowed to frolic, skip and jump around the museum with little or no interference from security guards. Needless to say this turned into a fun game of hide and seek almost immediately (I'm still unclear on whether or not Sarah actually found this "fun").

The great thing about the MFA is that the exhibits are constantly changing. What may be in one place one month, may not be in the same place a month later. Sadly, I'd played hide and seek in the MFA before (on multiple occasions) and had a go-to hiding spot. Figuring Sarah did not now this, I immediately ran to the Egyptian section because sarcophagi are huge (and easy to hide behind).

I set off immediately. However, as I was running to that section of the museum, I came across the holy grail of hide in seek in a museum: the marked off section. I quickly and stealthily made my way into the section and had just about found a great spot to hide (behind a Chinese sculpture) when I felt a tap on my shoulder. Shoot, I had been discovered and I was going to lose at Hide and Seek (or possibly be arrested).

I quickly explained my situation to the security guard. Turns out, he loved the idea and had himself played hide and seek back in the day (no idea if it was in a museum or not) and allowed me to move to another non-sectioned off part of the building to better hide. Thus the crisis was averted and I still was able to jump out at Sarah.

Only in the Boston MFA...where being a six year old is apparently still cool.

tagged as Boston, Customer Service, Marketing, MFA, Public Relations, tripwolf