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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
When in Berlin, consider the Ethnological Museum
Last summer I went to Berlin for a couple of days with a friend. Her mother and her sister had been to the Ethnological Museum a couple of days before, and they told us about a vodoo exhibition. As a generel rule I like museums that are all about showing the visitors old crap, and I really wasn't disapointed! The vodoo exhibition pretty much consisted of religious objects, mainly made out of skulls and mirror and colorful fabrics.
Comme ca...
It was quite amazing and I think you had to be 12 or 16 or some-amount-I-can't-remember years old to go in. Probably because the skulls were real and the lightning was kept at a minimum and it did have a certain touch of magic to it.
Anyways, judging on the webside (http://www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?objID=56 - absolutely horrible, by the way), this exhibition is looong gone, and I obviously can't tell you anything about the current exhibition, since I haven't seen it. The museum itself was okay. Not amazing (here I think about a very large room filled with small chipped statues dating back to when zzzzzzzzzzzzzz...), but some of it was quite nice. At €8, however, it is sort of pricey and I really think that you ought check if you care to see the special exhibition before going there. It's a bit out of the city centre, sort of in a living area, you can go there by U- or S-Bahn. I think it's in zone B, although the map in the Moleskine city notebook says C.
I'll be going back to Berlin at the end of July. Right now I'm studying for an exam (last of this semester) and it's killing me. Hence "all" the post. When I can't travel, I dream about travelling, and I might as well write down my travelling dreams in order for someone to maybe read them and get something out of it :)
Comme ca...
It was quite amazing and I think you had to be 12 or 16 or some-amount-I-can't-remember years old to go in. Probably because the skulls were real and the lightning was kept at a minimum and it did have a certain touch of magic to it.
Anyways, judging on the webside (http://www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?objID=56 - absolutely horrible, by the way), this exhibition is looong gone, and I obviously can't tell you anything about the current exhibition, since I haven't seen it. The museum itself was okay. Not amazing (here I think about a very large room filled with small chipped statues dating back to when zzzzzzzzzzzzzz...), but some of it was quite nice. At €8, however, it is sort of pricey and I really think that you ought check if you care to see the special exhibition before going there. It's a bit out of the city centre, sort of in a living area, you can go there by U- or S-Bahn. I think it's in zone B, although the map in the Moleskine city notebook says C.
I'll be going back to Berlin at the end of July. Right now I'm studying for an exam (last of this semester) and it's killing me. Hence "all" the post. When I can't travel, I dream about travelling, and I might as well write down my travelling dreams in order for someone to maybe read them and get something out of it :)
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
When in Copenhagen, go to Statens Museum for Kunst
Hello world!
Well, first of all, I have to admit that I am slightly biased. However, I really do think you should go to Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery) because... why not? It's free. It's a pretty building. It's nice to look at art. And did I mention that it's free? You can't really go wrong then, can you?
Right now there's an exhibition with wood cuts (?). Some of them are old as hell and sooo detailed and pretty, and some are new and (if you ask me) not quite as nice. but that's a matter of taste.
And they just redid the collection of Danish art. You might not consider what a difference it makes, but the people who made the decicions on where to place what really knew what they were doing. You just WANT to walk around and look at the paintings, because somebody painted the walls the perfect grey color and... well... go see for yourself.
Oh! On the subject of museums; I went to Louisiana to see Me draw on iPads (iPad paintings by David Hockney), and boy was I disapointed. Yes yes yes, the idea of art changeing and not being as static and trying out new possibilities is all very interesting, but when that's said, I really didn't like the "paintings". They were just sort of blah.
Well, first of all, I have to admit that I am slightly biased. However, I really do think you should go to Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery) because... why not? It's free. It's a pretty building. It's nice to look at art. And did I mention that it's free? You can't really go wrong then, can you?
Right now there's an exhibition with wood cuts (?). Some of them are old as hell and sooo detailed and pretty, and some are new and (if you ask me) not quite as nice. but that's a matter of taste.
And they just redid the collection of Danish art. You might not consider what a difference it makes, but the people who made the decicions on where to place what really knew what they were doing. You just WANT to walk around and look at the paintings, because somebody painted the walls the perfect grey color and... well... go see for yourself.
Oh! On the subject of museums; I went to Louisiana to see Me draw on iPads (iPad paintings by David Hockney), and boy was I disapointed. Yes yes yes, the idea of art changeing and not being as static and trying out new possibilities is all very interesting, but when that's said, I really didn't like the "paintings". They were just sort of blah.
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