This post doesn’t really belong to this website, which is mostly about traveling to less predictable destinations, either far away, not so often visited, challenging to get to and/or non-touristic. All of that does not apply to Paris, in France. But I also do include the occasional museum, and quite a few of our travels … Read more
By far the best museum in the country when it comes to antiquities is the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City. To do justice to the museum, you will need more than one day, which we didn’t, of course. There is a vast collection of artefacts of superior quality and aesthetics – compared to … Read more
Obviously, just the few pictures in the Mexico City (2) entry are not going to be enough to demonstrate the beauty of the work of Mexico’s muralists, the painters who are responsible for the many large frescoes in several public places. From the early 1920s onwards the big three, Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and … Read more
And then, suddenly, everything works. On our last day, we once again focussed on the murals, but this time in the museums. The most impressive collection is inside the Palacio de Bellas Artes, a building that in itself deserves a visit, because of its exquisite architecture as well as its Art Nouveau inside, an enormous … Read more
We had planned a stop-over in Xalapa, to admire more of the so-called Colossal Heads that define the Olmec civilization, the oldest in Mexico. The Olmecs flourished between 1200 – 400 BC in the present-day Mexican states Vera Cruz and Tabasco, and are thought to have laid the foundation for the later, more famous civilizations. … Read more
This delightful museum just outside Campeche has a fabulous collection of Maya artefacts from sites all over Campeche and Yucatan provinces. There is a lot of explanation, a lot of detail, on site, also in English, but I have mostly focused on the aesthetics of the artefacts displayed. And share a few more photos here.
One of the best things we did during our first day in Ashgabat, was a visit to the National Museum, not only to put our forthcoming excursions to Turkmenistan’s ancient cities in perspective, but also to admire some of the most fabulous ancient artefacts. We focus of the Gonur Depe collection, from 3000 BC, and … Read more
The gallery, just outside Split, is housed in a villa originally designed by Mestrovic himself. It was built in 1931, and the artist lived and worked here until 1941. Ten years later he donated the property, together with 132 works of art, to the state, which now, through the Ivan Mestrovic Foundation, manages the gallery, … Read more
You have these days that everything works out just fine, very smoothly. We had been looking for hotels in Kumarghat earlier, but nothing came up on the regular booking sites. Via Google and Facebook – how could we ever have travelled without these, before? – we managed to get a phone number of a reasonably … Read more
Here is another fabulously decorated church of a monastery, the one belonging to the Patriarchate of Pec, near what is called Peje in Albanian. There are in fact three churches, connected by a common narthex. The middle one is the 13th C Church of the Holy Apostles, flanked by 14th C Church of Saint Demetrius … Read more