Welcome back to my blog!! So, following on from my last post
on canal trips, I am going to talk about our visit to the Van Gogh Museum. We stayed at the other side of the city to
the Van Gogh Museum so we got the canal boat down to that end of town. Clare and I decided to go to this museum to
pretend that we are SO cultured.
The building was very modern along with the inside of it,
perhaps a bit too modern for me. I would
recommend getting a multimedia guide for an additional €5 for adults – this is a
headset which has scanning technology that explains to you what the paintings
are about, along with why it’s relevant to Vincent’s life – without this we
would be lost and probably would have left within 5 minutes. However, the scanning part and the headphones
are separate, and if they fall apart, do no say to the person working “oops I’ve
just broken this” because they will not give a toss and you will find yourself
saying “oh I’ll just fix it myself then ://”.
When we finally had the headset working and were ready to
go, we dived into some Van Gogh artwork.
He is most famous for his painting “Sunflowers” which is really all
people go to see.
He was also famous for all of his self-portraits which
reflect how he was feeling when he painted them – the information from the headsets
allowed us to see the times where he was joyous compared to the times that he
was filled with depression. We couldn’t resist
a cheeky photo with him thoooo
The final part of the museum was Asian paintings in which
some of Van Gogh’s work was inspired from.
This, though, didn’t last long before Clare says “Do you want to just go
to the gift shop??”
Hope you enjoyed, will see you for part 3 !!
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