Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas

Today was another field trip day with our PEACH home school group.  This time we visited the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas.  It's a beautiful Biblical-themed art museum that hosts around 50,000 visitors annually.  

The museum opened up in the 1960's, but then re-built and re-opened in 2010 after a fire in 2005. The beautifully remodeled museum boasts eleven galleries, The National Center for Jewish Art, an on-site Art Conservation Lab, Via Dolorosa Sculpture Garden, and many cast of Michelangelo's sculptures. My favorites are the ones I saw in Italy with my parents like Michelangelo's Moses and the Pieta'. 

This was our families first visit since the opening of the new Via Dolorosa Sculpture Garden.  In Latin, "Via Dolorosa" means "way of sorrows" or "painful way." It refers to the path that Jesus walked on his way to crucifixion. Visitors follow that path and complete the 14 Stations of the Cross, which features larger-than-life bronze statues by Santa Fe artist, Gib Singleton.  When my parents and I were in Jerusalem we were privileged to walk through the stations thought to be traveled by Jesus. 

He began to be deeply distressed and troubled. “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” he said to them. “Stay here and keep watch.” Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him. Mark 14:33-35