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so guess who spent the afternoon at the ghibli museum?!
it wasn't exactly the ideal day for it, since it was raining out and we couldn't leave until late, but i think there is something rather sweet about waiting by a bus stop with your umbrella in the rain in order to go to the ghibli museum. ^_^; i half-expected a totoro to come join us!
the museum was gorgeous. it was rather low-key, not very big and not at all flashy, but that's what i like. the design and decor of the building is extremely cool... i guess the style was something like a fanciful, stylized old european inn. it was all wooden and stone, with wrought iron railings and lots of stained glass windows. there were some tiny little doors that you had to duck to get through, and a couple spiral staircases. all the stained glass windows showed ghibli characters. it was all very sweet and very tastefully done. unfortunately, we were not allowed to take pictures inside. ;_; but the outside was gorgeous as well, made to be a sort of overgrown garden, in a very ghibli-esque style. basically, the museum itself had the atmosphere a ghibli film.
there was one room that was sorta a fun "oh wow, look what this does!!" room. i really liked it because despite how intreresting it was, the technology used was not at all complicated, so it intrigued you rather than simply impressed you... they had little pictures that spun around so fast they looked like they were moving, or little panorama boxes where you could look inside and it was was just pictures in a box but it made you feel like you were there, that kind of thing. it had the sorta innocent child-like sense to it that the movies have.
next was a replicated version of a person's (miyazaki's?) workplace, four rooms covered in original ghibli artwork along with the desks and watercolors and tons of books and even a pot of tea. down to the last detail, you felt like you were really in a very talented person's study. and the paintings/sketches were GORGEOUS. i think i have a whole new appreciation for the artwork behind ghibli movies now.
there is a cinema where you can watch little movies that you can't watch anywhere else, which we didn't go to because no one else wanted to. ;_; but that's okay. the other things to see included a lovely big exhibit on the curse of the wererabbit, which obviously is not ghibli but apparently has some form of partnership with it. it was so neat to see an original clay gromit! teehee. there was also a neko bus room, with an almost-life-sized plush neko bus that little kids could go play in... omg i wish i was little enough! i think this is the best idea, because when you watch totoro you just wish you could go sit in catbus... or at least i did, maybe i'm weird.
we then went to eat at the cafe, which was an amazing experience in and of itself... the restaurant uses ALL ORGANIC FOOD. i am so impressed by this. yay for ethics that fit in with the ideas behind the films! it was also all very healthy food, and delicious. i got a vegetable and bean soup with bread, and it was probably the best soup i've ever had. i wish i could go back there without paying to go to the museum!
anyway, pictures!
entrance to the museum
the robot from laputa (there's a life-size statue of it on the roof, watching over an overgrown garden just like in the movie)
a lovely little courtyard, unfortunately very blurry (the water pump really works, so you can pump water!!)
soot sprites in a window!
a little door that is unfortunately locked
now i think i'm gonna take it easy for a few days and stop running around everywhere. -_-
it wasn't exactly the ideal day for it, since it was raining out and we couldn't leave until late, but i think there is something rather sweet about waiting by a bus stop with your umbrella in the rain in order to go to the ghibli museum. ^_^; i half-expected a totoro to come join us!
the museum was gorgeous. it was rather low-key, not very big and not at all flashy, but that's what i like. the design and decor of the building is extremely cool... i guess the style was something like a fanciful, stylized old european inn. it was all wooden and stone, with wrought iron railings and lots of stained glass windows. there were some tiny little doors that you had to duck to get through, and a couple spiral staircases. all the stained glass windows showed ghibli characters. it was all very sweet and very tastefully done. unfortunately, we were not allowed to take pictures inside. ;_; but the outside was gorgeous as well, made to be a sort of overgrown garden, in a very ghibli-esque style. basically, the museum itself had the atmosphere a ghibli film.
there was one room that was sorta a fun "oh wow, look what this does!!" room. i really liked it because despite how intreresting it was, the technology used was not at all complicated, so it intrigued you rather than simply impressed you... they had little pictures that spun around so fast they looked like they were moving, or little panorama boxes where you could look inside and it was was just pictures in a box but it made you feel like you were there, that kind of thing. it had the sorta innocent child-like sense to it that the movies have.
next was a replicated version of a person's (miyazaki's?) workplace, four rooms covered in original ghibli artwork along with the desks and watercolors and tons of books and even a pot of tea. down to the last detail, you felt like you were really in a very talented person's study. and the paintings/sketches were GORGEOUS. i think i have a whole new appreciation for the artwork behind ghibli movies now.
there is a cinema where you can watch little movies that you can't watch anywhere else, which we didn't go to because no one else wanted to. ;_; but that's okay. the other things to see included a lovely big exhibit on the curse of the wererabbit, which obviously is not ghibli but apparently has some form of partnership with it. it was so neat to see an original clay gromit! teehee. there was also a neko bus room, with an almost-life-sized plush neko bus that little kids could go play in... omg i wish i was little enough! i think this is the best idea, because when you watch totoro you just wish you could go sit in catbus... or at least i did, maybe i'm weird.
we then went to eat at the cafe, which was an amazing experience in and of itself... the restaurant uses ALL ORGANIC FOOD. i am so impressed by this. yay for ethics that fit in with the ideas behind the films! it was also all very healthy food, and delicious. i got a vegetable and bean soup with bread, and it was probably the best soup i've ever had. i wish i could go back there without paying to go to the museum!
anyway, pictures!
entrance to the museum
the robot from laputa (there's a life-size statue of it on the roof, watching over an overgrown garden just like in the movie)
a lovely little courtyard, unfortunately very blurry (the water pump really works, so you can pump water!!)
soot sprites in a window!
a little door that is unfortunately locked
now i think i'm gonna take it easy for a few days and stop running around everywhere. -_-