Category: museums
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (Museum of the state of Sao Paulo) is a highly regarded museum dedicated to the visual artists of Brazil from the 19th century to now. Designed in 1897 by Ramos de Azevedo, the museum building housed the first art school of the city, Liceu de Artes e Ofícios. It is the…
Parque da Luz, São Paulo
Parque da Luz (or Jardim da Luz) is one of two big parks in the center of São Paulo. The other one – Ibirapuera – is much more famous for its design and the location of several cultural institutions. I came here primarily because the Museum of the State of Sao Paulo (Pinacoteca do Estado) is…
Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Furtwangen – part 2
Continuing with the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum at Furtwangen … from ancient time keeping devices to clocks and watches … This museum is not to be confused with the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Glashütte which was opened in 2008 at Glashütte near Dresden. Glashütte is the watchmaking capital of the former East Germany while Furtwangen is in the traditional clockmaking area of…
Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Furtwangen – part 1
During Easter, we drove up to the Black Forest area of Germany. We visited the German Clock Museum (Deutsches Uhrenmuseum) on our way back from Baden-Baden. The museum is in Furtwangen, a small town just off the Black Forest high road (Schwarzwaldhochstraße, see our post here). The museum is housed in a very humble-looking modern building.…
The Sculpture Park at Fondation Pierre Gianadda
After a long dreary winter, our wait for a warm and sunny weekend is over. Spring has finally arrived, late but most welcomed. I made this trip to the Fondation Pieere Gianadda last year at about the same time. Fondation Pierre Gianadda is a museum located in Martigny – which is about an hour by…
Wat Pho, Bangkok
Wat Pho is a temple located adjacent to the Grand Palace in Bangkok, and is very popular with tourists. See our earlier post about the Grand Palace complex here. We visited the temple after our tour of the Grand Palace. It is famous for its gigantic reclining gold buddha. The temple, being a historic place…