Category: museums
El Jardín de Las Delicias, El Bosco, Prado
We spent a few days in Madrid after Donostia-San Sebastián. The Museo Nacional del Prado had just put on a special exhibition that marked the 5th centenary of the death of Jheronimus Bosch – aka El Bosco. This represents the greatest number of Bosch’s works ever to be assembled. Each ticket entitled one to enter
The Matter of Time – Richard Serra, Guggenheim Bilbao
The largest gallery in Guggenheim Bilbao is the Arcelor Gallery which measures 30 meters wide and 130 meters long (98 ft × 427 ft). The gallery houses Richard Serra’s monumental installation “The Matter of Time” – eight pieces of torqued ellipses made of weathering steel, weighing a total of 1034 ton. That is more than 100
Inside the Guggenheim Bilbao
This blog posts will cover what we saw inside the Guggenheim museum Bilbao. An earlier post talked about the outside, click here to read. Here is another view of the Simpson-ish model of the building. Let’s take a look around inside. There is a normal-looking, rather warm and cozy, education center. A cafe with a giant
The Incomparable Guggenheim Bilbao
While visiting Donostia-San Sebastián, we took a day-trip to see the incomparable Guggenheim museum in nearby Bilbao. The express bus route between the two cities is well-run, frequent and comfortable. Much of what we have written below came from the official web site. A model of the building in the museum When the Guggenheim Museum