Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, part2
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In this second part of our critique-visit to the fun Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, we are taking a look at the old masters department, housed in the original fine arts building, with its magnificent central hall.
Gaining entrance here is being turned into a fun activity as well, since no one really tells you that you need to buy a ticket to enter untill you are in the museum rooms viewing the art and some random lady walks up to you asking what you are doing here, then sends you back to the entrance.
Back with your ticket where you started off before you got shooed away, no one asks you for a ticket anymore, making the whole thing quite a game of chance. Some pay, some sneak in, and no one seems to care too much.
Gaining entrance here is being turned into a fun activity as well, since no one really tells you that you need to buy a ticket to enter untill you are in the museum rooms viewing the art and some random lady walks up to you asking what you are doing here, then sends you back to the entrance.
Back with your ticket where you started off before you got shooed away, no one asks you for a ticket anymore, making the whole thing quite a game of chance. Some pay, some sneak in, and no one seems to care too much.
Should we mention that the museum holds a few important French paintings as well? Interestingly enough, those are kept in an old staircase that is not in use anymore and thereby as unvisited as possible. The fact that we failed to see the famous painting of "Marat assassiné" by Jacques Louis David should say it all.
This one at least was lit, because mostly there is only natural light in the museum rooms, and not one lightbulb is directed at the darkened paintings...
This one at least was lit, because mostly there is only natural light in the museum rooms, and not one lightbulb is directed at the darkened paintings...
Fascinating isn't it? Am I the only one to feel like I'm at some business suply show in a convention center, with hastily put together plywood panels that seem like they can crash onto the floor on the slightest touch? No security system either, or lighting fixtures except the natural light, slowly darkening away in the afternoon.
Looks like the stains you find in certain cheap hotelrooms.
Is that the heating system, right under this priceless Lucas Cranach painting?
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Why is this section elevated again?
early foot fetishism
at least these rooms have real walls
a chandelier?
...ok and all of a sudden 2 cleaning ladies appear out of a hidden door in a wall in order to empty a trash can...yes, a trash can. At the museum.
He must have done something right to be placed right next to the fire exit
early 1980s modernism is with us
what purpose serves a hanging dark roof inside a room with a huge bright skylight right above it? this is fun!
an abandoned lady
somehow paintings seem to shrink at the end here...
this humidity measure thing deserves indeed to be displayed in a museum
mmmh dry wall...
no it's not modern art, it's just 2 pieces of plastic hanging there for no good reason
refreshing monarchist memorabilia hanging in the hall...
Now this was real fun! Although the display was ...interesting to say the least, it has a certain Belgian charm to it that makes this unique museum experience one of the top 2 in my Brussles list.
Labels: Art, Brussels, Interiors, MUSEUMS, painting, photography
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