Are you ready for some art?
Jul. 17th, 2011 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckI'll keep posting my pictures.
So, after deciding not to go hiking for another three hours it was time to come down the mountain and then attend to the educational portion of our holiday.
I don't know what it is, but I believe in a certain segment of society, what I would call Bildungsbürgertum - it's not only teachers - holidays have to be a mix of doing stuff that is good for your body, like hiking and doing stuff that is good for your brain, like museum going. Hanging around at the beach is strictly for the proles. Too much physical activity is not good either, there needs to be some food for thought, too.
So down the hill we walked, where we took a taxi to the next town and then the ferry across the Rhine to Rolandseck.
There was a little bit of organizational chaos - food or art first? - which was solved by the sluggish service at the Bistro. After waiting for someone to take our order for much too long, it had to be the art.
Definitely a museum to recommend, for the architecture alone. One half is your typical 19th century railway station - celebrating progress - and behind the building itself the trains still stop. A second building was added in 2007.
So, you may wonder how do you get from the old part to the new part? After all, it's much further up the hill.
And here they did something really great:
We've got a fake railway tunnel with a snake made out light and christened Kaa. It's reminiscent of the hissing of the trains and the flow of the river - says the artist Barbara Trautmann.
At the end of the tunnel you can take the elevator or walk up the 230 stairs. We'd been up a hill already, so took the lift. This is where you step out:
I'll show you some of the art tomorrow and am leaving you with a couple of details of the building.
We did decide to walk down the stairs, because the elevator shaft was spectacular. It was a hot day and there was no air conditioning in the glass walkway I showed you earlier, so the way down the steps was not only a descent into darkness but it also became progressively cooler. Looking up:
So, after deciding not to go hiking for another three hours it was time to come down the mountain and then attend to the educational portion of our holiday.
I don't know what it is, but I believe in a certain segment of society, what I would call Bildungsbürgertum - it's not only teachers - holidays have to be a mix of doing stuff that is good for your body, like hiking and doing stuff that is good for your brain, like museum going. Hanging around at the beach is strictly for the proles. Too much physical activity is not good either, there needs to be some food for thought, too.
So down the hill we walked, where we took a taxi to the next town and then the ferry across the Rhine to Rolandseck.
There was a little bit of organizational chaos - food or art first? - which was solved by the sluggish service at the Bistro. After waiting for someone to take our order for much too long, it had to be the art.
Definitely a museum to recommend, for the architecture alone. One half is your typical 19th century railway station - celebrating progress - and behind the building itself the trains still stop. A second building was added in 2007.
So, you may wonder how do you get from the old part to the new part? After all, it's much further up the hill.
And here they did something really great:
We've got a fake railway tunnel with a snake made out light and christened Kaa. It's reminiscent of the hissing of the trains and the flow of the river - says the artist Barbara Trautmann.
At the end of the tunnel you can take the elevator or walk up the 230 stairs. We'd been up a hill already, so took the lift. This is where you step out:
I'll show you some of the art tomorrow and am leaving you with a couple of details of the building.
We did decide to walk down the stairs, because the elevator shaft was spectacular. It was a hot day and there was no air conditioning in the glass walkway I showed you earlier, so the way down the steps was not only a descent into darkness but it also became progressively cooler. Looking up:
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Date: 2011-07-17 09:46 am (UTC)The museum itself is a work of art indeed. I love the tunnel!
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Date: 2011-07-17 12:20 pm (UTC)Is it the contrast with the green background or is lj doing the pixelation thing again where it doesn't display the correct size of the image? (They look fine to me, but it's something I encounter on lj now and then, both with my own pics and those of others.)
It was a great place even though I usually don't go in for modern white buildings - they can be very very boring, but this had lots of wonderful little details, like small balconies to enjoy the view into the Rhine valley.