6.10.06
when we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality. - hundertwasser
Hi…
Iz my second day at Vienna and i am having such a ball of a time! This is a beautiful city, so far.
Headed off to hundertwasser’s museum yesterday and found his work extremely inspiring and visually interesting – which is more than I can say about a lot of the more traditional art works ive been inundated with the previous week or so. I love everything about his work, and wat he believes in and his vision…
Today we went to the natural history museum and again spent a good half day there, unfortunately the language barrier was … a bit of a barrier for some collections and I couldn’t get a more complete picture than if I only knew the language a bit better…but still a must see place. They have a vast collection of rocks, crystals, jewel, and a lot of specimens of fossils, stuffed animals, all the way to live exhibits (which I don’t really agree with but it really just depends what your personal views are). The rooms are all layed out according to the kind of exhibits you are seeing so it was quite a nice experience overall.
Went to the Irrgarten and labrynth which is a part of the Schönbrunn Palace gardens. It was just nice to get out into the open air and act like a kid in the mazes and the playground. Something I don’t get is how the hell we have become a society who sues people for our kids falling off swings and stuff? Here are fully operational gardens and playgrounds still have moving parts, kids can fall and hurt themselves and still they are used, but the kids would learn and appreciate something from the experience – things like simple mechanics, swings, mirrors and the like. It would be lovely to see more of such kinds of playgrounds in existence.
correction: the earlier mentioned hundertwasseräs museum should be "kunst haust wien."
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Iz my second day at Vienna and i am having such a ball of a time! This is a beautiful city, so far.
Headed off to hundertwasser’s museum yesterday and found his work extremely inspiring and visually interesting – which is more than I can say about a lot of the more traditional art works ive been inundated with the previous week or so. I love everything about his work, and wat he believes in and his vision…
Today we went to the natural history museum and again spent a good half day there, unfortunately the language barrier was … a bit of a barrier for some collections and I couldn’t get a more complete picture than if I only knew the language a bit better…but still a must see place. They have a vast collection of rocks, crystals, jewel, and a lot of specimens of fossils, stuffed animals, all the way to live exhibits (which I don’t really agree with but it really just depends what your personal views are). The rooms are all layed out according to the kind of exhibits you are seeing so it was quite a nice experience overall.
Went to the Irrgarten and labrynth which is a part of the Schönbrunn Palace gardens. It was just nice to get out into the open air and act like a kid in the mazes and the playground. Something I don’t get is how the hell we have become a society who sues people for our kids falling off swings and stuff? Here are fully operational gardens and playgrounds still have moving parts, kids can fall and hurt themselves and still they are used, but the kids would learn and appreciate something from the experience – things like simple mechanics, swings, mirrors and the like. It would be lovely to see more of such kinds of playgrounds in existence.
correction: the earlier mentioned hundertwasseräs museum should be "kunst haust wien."
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