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okay, so, sorry for the previous angry rant, i just get really really frustrated sometimes.
today we went to the victoria and albert museum, and i was seriously impressed. i think that's my favorite museum of all time. ^_^; if any of y'all go to london, don't miss it. it has free admission and the whole atmosphere is just really friendly. they have this lovely little fountain in the courtyard, and all these little kids were playing in it like a swimming pool, and this was apparently perfectly acceptable. they let you take pictures throughout the whole museum, and they had a couple exhibitions telling you to "please touch"... it just had a really friendly feel to it. it also had the widest variety of stuff - throughout my life, i've seen so many impressionist paintings and renaissance artwork and all those goddamned madonna and childs, i know it sounds terrible but i do not feel any need to see any more of those for quite awhile. but this museum had so much more than all that, it had stained glass windows and wrought iron gates and samurai armor and a ton of silver(including stuff by my great uncle, that was pretty cool) and glasswork and beatles albums and furniture and a huge fashion collection (which of course delighted me, especially the vivienne westwood bondage suit... mwah. vivienne westwood is my hero.), and so many other things no one could mention it all. they were having a big exhibition on che guevara, but i didn't go.
as if it wasn't cool enough already, they had excellent explanations of all the stuff. we were particularly impressed with the photography collection... they explained in a very easy-to-understand way the ideas the photographers were trying to convey by the photos, which let me appreciate the work a lot more than i would have. i really wish there were more museums like this. the variety was amazing, i swear even the most add person could spend hours in there, and it did so much to really catch your interest, without this foreboding "we are too elite for you" kinda feel that a lot of museums have, but it was still a very serious museum (not like exploris or something). i highly highly recommend it.
then we went to look at the cutesy antique shops on portobello road, but we apparently spent too much time in the v&a because they were closed. but we wandered around notting hill and saw all the fancy houses (and sorry, james, we did not see either julia roberts or hugh grant. i will look harder next time. ^_^;; )
pictures may or may not follow depending on how lazy i am.
today we went to the victoria and albert museum, and i was seriously impressed. i think that's my favorite museum of all time. ^_^; if any of y'all go to london, don't miss it. it has free admission and the whole atmosphere is just really friendly. they have this lovely little fountain in the courtyard, and all these little kids were playing in it like a swimming pool, and this was apparently perfectly acceptable. they let you take pictures throughout the whole museum, and they had a couple exhibitions telling you to "please touch"... it just had a really friendly feel to it. it also had the widest variety of stuff - throughout my life, i've seen so many impressionist paintings and renaissance artwork and all those goddamned madonna and childs, i know it sounds terrible but i do not feel any need to see any more of those for quite awhile. but this museum had so much more than all that, it had stained glass windows and wrought iron gates and samurai armor and a ton of silver(including stuff by my great uncle, that was pretty cool) and glasswork and beatles albums and furniture and a huge fashion collection (which of course delighted me, especially the vivienne westwood bondage suit... mwah. vivienne westwood is my hero.), and so many other things no one could mention it all. they were having a big exhibition on che guevara, but i didn't go.
as if it wasn't cool enough already, they had excellent explanations of all the stuff. we were particularly impressed with the photography collection... they explained in a very easy-to-understand way the ideas the photographers were trying to convey by the photos, which let me appreciate the work a lot more than i would have. i really wish there were more museums like this. the variety was amazing, i swear even the most add person could spend hours in there, and it did so much to really catch your interest, without this foreboding "we are too elite for you" kinda feel that a lot of museums have, but it was still a very serious museum (not like exploris or something). i highly highly recommend it.
then we went to look at the cutesy antique shops on portobello road, but we apparently spent too much time in the v&a because they were closed. but we wandered around notting hill and saw all the fancy houses (and sorry, james, we did not see either julia roberts or hugh grant. i will look harder next time. ^_^;; )
pictures may or may not follow depending on how lazy i am.