I enjoy going to a museum and I enjoy looking at boring paintings and sculptures. Should I tell you a secret? Well, it’s not really a secret but more a dream. I always wanted to have my own exhibitions or gallery with my art and everything I make. The funny thing is, I never want it to have it here in The Netherlands but just any place of the world except for here. It’s still a dream and I think it will stay as a dream.
Not so long ago I went to Newcastle, UK with my friend. (Or should I say “my sister” like every teacher at school says so.) We are the-not-two-sisters. Anyways I’ll get back to that later in my next post. I wanted to blog about this first because it’s one of the exciting things we did during our trip.
Going to a museum in an other country is really different than here. I think it’s more fun and nicer. The good thing about the museums in the UK or any other places of the world, is that it is free. Now I’ve been asking myself and everyone around me why you have to pay it here in the netherlands while in other countries they are free. I know that not every country does it but most ones that I visit does. Most people I know doesn’t like it to go to a museum just because it’s quite pricy. For me it’s okay since I have a museum card, even with this card at some places I still have to pay a bit for the entrance. What do you think of it when you’re visiting the netherlands?
(Yes it was a rainy morning)
Anyways, before we went to Newcastle we looked up for a nice museum to visit since we are both design students. And that’s how we found Baltic. Baltic is a contemporary art centre. Who doesn’t love contemporary art? But what is it exactly? I still haven’t figured it out, but oh what do I love it and I want to specialize myself in contemporary art too. (At some point)
We went there with the thought that it will take a few hours to wander around in there. But we were wrong. It tooked us less than 30 minutes (I think?). But that’s okay because it was pretty fun in there.
We didn’t know that that there was only 3 exhibitions in there. Unfortunately, I don’t have that much to show to you all. We weren’t allowed to take any pictures except for one flour. The playground of rainbow and mirrors. (That’s how I like to call it) The exhibition where we were allowed to take pictures was, “Catch as catch can: works in situ” By Daniel Buren.
Each corner of the mirror where you stand is different. The mirror is nicely and perfectly placed for the reflections of the colored windows. It’s a nice place to play with your standing point. I remember very clearly of when I was there, how happy and excited we were. I wonder if they colored the windows just for this exhibition..
And I can endlessly show you every picture I took of this but I will spare you the time and show you other nice things of the museum!
At the 5th or 4th flour you can go outside to enjoy of the nice view of the Quay side. Oh and hey they have some visitors too!
There’s also another thing what I like about museums, the shops! I can’t deny it but I’m pretty much a shopaholic and a design/craft addic. I love wandering around in a store full with books and little unnecessary things. Just because of the design or how cute it is. But I never get something from it, mainly because it’s a bit too overpriced. Even for a poster that I can probably make by myself too.
How cute is this? A while ago I found illustrations of this somewhere on the net too and I thought, why haven’t I ever thought about this too? It’s so cute and clever. I love it! If we had this during my chinese school years, I would love it to attend classes.
Do you love the Keri Smith journals too? I can tell you that I’m in love with it. But I never do something with it just because I’m lazy and tend to forget that I have a Wreck this journal in my shelf.
Well that’s all for now, more posts about my little trip will come!
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