15.6.08

Pražská Muzejní Noc/ Prague Museum Night

Last night was museum night in Prague, which operates on the principle that for one night a year all the museums in the city are free and furthermore transportation between them is free as well, which is a rather enlightened notion that makes for a giant happening because the populace of Prague can't resist free things. There were crowds of people at every museum which really heightened the festive atmosphere.


It's a girl dressed up as a dinosaur spinning a hula hoop in the national museum. Any questions?


My country's national museum's wall hanging beats your wall hanging! (I really want a giant mammoth head in my bedroom. Although that might be creepy.)


A whale skeleton. Mostly just added to prove that I saw it, because the last time I was here I managed to miss it. Don't ask me how.


A concert by the Cuban band Son Caliente was a sideshow at one of the branches of the National Museum. They sang a poem by Jose Marti which happens to be the only poem in Spanish that I know. I felt cultured (and or folk revolutionarish).


A photo from the exhibit of Asian, African and American cultures.


Performers at the museum of fine arts. They had several, including a guy in a trash can wrapped in celophane blowing bubbles outside their door.


A piece at the museum of fine arts entitled "Amoeba". There was another which was a cylinder of semi-opaque white glass, entitled "Cylinder". A few art kids were viewing it next to me, staring at it quizzically until one of them finally proclaimed, "Yep, that's a cylinder."

Overall it was quite the experience.