5 Art Museums That Will Change Your Perspective

If It Feels Hard To Make Time For Things Like Looking At Art, Here’s Why You Just Might Want To Put A Museum On Your To-do List.

- Erin E. Evans

1 Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Decades later, I’m still not over my first visit to the Amon Carter Museum. I was a junior in high school, and it was my first time seeing the work of my favorite artist, Mary Cassatt, in person. The women she depicted felt real to me; Cassatt captured moments of exquisite tenderness between mothers and children. She saw what the men around her couldn’t, and she put what she saw on canvas. She earned her place in what was widely considered a man’s sphere—and once she was there, she won the deep respect and admiration of her peers. The day I first saw her work in person, she won mine too.

MELINDA GATES IS A PHILANTHROPIST AND THE AUTHOR OF THE MOMENT OF LIFT: HOW EMPOWERING WOMEN CHANGES THE WORLD. SHE LIVES IN THE SEATTLE AREA.

2 The Underground Museum, Los Angeles