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    Quote Originally Posted by Harley View Post
    i don’t visit them as often as i would like unfortunately.

    the last time i went to a museum was to the louvre in 2014. i was talking to a guy from my mandarin class about it and he told me you can see everything in one day. when i went, i remember entering and thinking this nigga is tripping. as i went further in, i realized that dude was a meathead. there’s no way possible you can really experience everything in a day unless you just walk through the rooms and consider that sufficient.
    Like Anna Karina in Bande ŕ part, who breaks the record and visited the Louvre in 9 minutes :


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    Very often, especially when in a new place or if there is some new exhibition in town.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Laly View Post
    What's the last exhibition/museum you have visited?
    My last visit before the lockdown, museums reopen on November, were the temporary exhibitions of argentine artists Luís Erlich "La Pileta(pool)" and Ernesto Neto "El soplo(blow)" at the MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamerciano de Buenos Aires).









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    I rarely go, about once every 3 years, and usually not of my own free will.
    From the last where I was - it was the vodka museum in the Izmailovsky Kremlin in Moscow in 2019. There I was at will.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Laly View Post
    To visit what exactly? You don't consider returning to the museum?
    Not really, idk don't find it intresting that much. I although like to check old buildings of all sorts like Churches/Mosques/Synagogues, parliaments, factories or just nature.

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    Yesterday, I’ve been walking in the woods in my municipality in Brussels, with my friend and then, we’ve been visiting an art gallery in the middle of the woods, in a famous abbey from the Middle Ages, where one of the most important painters of the XVth century, the Flemish Primitive Hugo Van der Goes, was lay brother.

    The abbey:



    One of Hugo Van der Goes’ wonderful paintings:



    In the art gallery, there was an exhibition by the Walloon artist Charles-Henry Sommelette. His works are amazingly beautiful. They are in sharp contrast with a certain contemporary art that is totally out of touch with reality and with beauty. He makes large formats on which he draws with charcoal. The result is striking and you really feel immersed in the bucolic and relaxing landscapes depicted. From a certain distance, it really looks like photographs.










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    Quote Originally Posted by Laly View Post
    Yesterday, I’ve been walking in the woods in my municipality in Brussels, with my friend and then, we’ve been visiting an art gallery in the middle of the woods, in a famous abbey from the Middle Ages, where one of the most important painters of the XVth century, the Flemish Primitive Hugo Van der Goes, was lay brother.
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    Pardon my American way of barging in and interjecting something unrelated to art, museums, or exhibitions, and rather personal, however I was in Belgium as a young kid, aged maybe 13, with a group of Americans who were associated with the international bureaucracy around Mons. I had an early "time of my life" there, as I met some local Belgian kids my age and we hung out a little for a couple days. I was staying with a host American family during this "international school field trip." Part of my walkings took place in the "Belgian woods" in this municipality...I remember it well, and when I see pictures of actual Belgian "woods," I feel a little at home... Nostaligic.
    As they say in AA during the conversational-contribution time of the meeting, "Thanks for letting me share."

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    Not incredibly often, but occasionally my girlfriend will be like "oh, I was reading about this cool place, lets check it out" and I'll go "oh....ok, sure", haha.

    This was the last museum I went to, pretty cool. They had a collection of instruments representing a pretty decent amount different cultures around the world, and there were a few I had never seen or read about prior. Also, I remember there was an exhibition showing the development and presentation of how music was notated (working from simple, monophonic scores right up to using crescendo and diminuendo to notate filter sweeps or whatever). There was also a little interactive room where you can play some of the aforementioned instruments....was a pretty decent way to spend €6.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Toddy Frent View Post
    Pardon my American way of barging in and interjecting something unrelated to art, museums, or exhibitions, and rather personal, however I was in Belgium as a young kid, aged maybe 13, with a group of Americans who were associated with the international bureaucracy around Mons. I had an early "time of my life" there, as I met some local Belgian kids my age and we hung out a little for a couple days. I was staying with a host American family during this "international school field trip." Part of my walkings took place in the "Belgian woods" in this municipality...I remember it well, and when I see pictures of actual Belgian "woods," I feel a little at home... Nostaligic.
    As they say in AA during the conversational-contribution time of the meeting, "Thanks for letting me share."
    Thank you for sharing this interesting experience, my dear!

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    By the way, I have also made the visits mentioned below, since the museums have reopened.

    With my daughter and my husband:

    - The Museum of trains, a wonderful museum, very big, modern and didactic, providing a great experience. There was in the museum the exhibition “Choco Loco” too – a word game – with sculptures made of chocolate in link with the train universe.



    A picture I took of one of the sculptures in chocolate:



    - The Museum of Natural Sciences, which is very big and which was renovated recently. It’s very seducing in a museological point of view.





    - The Museum of Trams, a sympathetic museum with a nice collection, offering the possibility to do a tour in an old tram, during one hour, through the woods (it’s actually the best part of the museum, which is quite old-fashioned).







    - The Museum of Army and of Military History, which is an amazing with one of the richest collections in the world and covering history from the Middle Ages to WW2 for the permanent exhibitions, without forgetting the expeditions in Congo or WW1.






    - The Museum of Graphic Novels, a Belgian speciality. My daughter, who is not yet two, loves to read classical Belgian graphic novels.


    There was also there a temporary exhibition on Boule & Bill (Billy & Buddy), which always arouses amazement:


    Without my daughter, I’ve visited two places.

    - The Museum Félicien Rops, in Namur. The Walloon artist of the XIXth century was very prolific, approaching different subjects. One of his favourite was “fallen women”.

    One of his most famous paintings is the Pornocrates:



    - The impressive Villa Empain, an Art Déco work, a place dedicated to culture which belongs to the Boghossian family, a family of rich Armenians.





    There, I’ve seen two temporary exhibitions, The Light House, an exhibition where contemporary artists exhibit works based on a reflection on light.







    The other exhibition I’ve seen there was “Aleppo, 5,000 years of history”.
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