Skype-a-Docent: Visit the Bruce Museum at the Fairfield Public Library

Visit the Bruce Museum in Greenwich from a seat in the Library’s Rotary Room. A docent will take us on a private tour of the exhibit “Northern Baroque Splendor” via Skype. Skype is a video phone call, but when projected onto the large screen in the Library’s Rotary Room, it allows us to view exhibits up close and converse with the docent as we tour. Join us for this “visit” on Wednesday, December 10 from 10:30-11:30 am at the Main Library, 1080 Old Post Road. Registration is requested.

“Northern Baroque Splendor” features The Hohenbuchau Collection, one of the largest and most varied collections of Northern Baroque art assembled in recent years, and now on long-term loan to LIECHTENSTEIN, the Princely Collections, Vienna. While many modern collections of Old Masters specialize in a single style or subject matter, the Hohenbuchau Collection, primarily comprised of Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century paintings, offers examples of virtually all the genres produced by Lowland artists. The selective showing at the Bruce Museum is the collection’s inaugural venue in the United States before it travels to Cincinnati.

The Bruce Museum highlights art, science and natural history in more than a dozen changing exhibitions annually. The permanent galleries feature natural sciences exhibits that encompass regional to global perspectives.

Skype-a-Docent is an extension of the Library’s Homebound Service that has been delivering Library books and other materials to residents for over 20 years. Last year over 1,200 items were delivered by volunteers to five senior living facilities and to individuals living in their own homes. Now we are able to “deliver” tours of cultural interest to seniors and others who may not be able to travel out of town. Skype-a-Docent tours are brought by the Library to two senior living facilities in town, in addition to the presentation at the Main Library.

Tours aren’t just for seniors, they are open to all. So take an early lunch or join us while the children are in school.

All programs at the Fairfield Public Library are free. To register, or for more information on this and other programs, visit our website at: www.fairfieldpubliclibrary.org or call 203-256-3160. Follow the Fairfield Public Library on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fairfieldpublib and Facebook: www.facebook.com/fairfieldlibrary.