I'm starting to believe that museums are designed to create a maze-like, scavenger hunt for visitors who have an agenda. So, if you're just wandering and taking things as they come, it's cool. If you've come to see something specific, you better be resolute and unswerving in your quest to find say, 17th century prints or, for that matter, an elevator.
That said, the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, is great. The paintings are just beautiful, in that "boy, those guys could really paint" way. And OK, we did find the elevator eventually. And lunch was really tasty. And we got there by streetcar, our first choice in European mass transit systems.
Tomorrow we go back to Paris by train, stay over one night, and then fly home on Wednesday.
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| The whole sign reads "I Amsterdam", but here's the clever part, the "I am" is in red, and rest is in white. Yeah, OK. Can find the American tourist? This is the view looking towards the back of the museum. |
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| Dog detail from a large canvas. |
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| Big canvas, little kids. |
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| Another detail from a large canvas. It looks like a detail from a photo! |
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| I may expand upon my Man in a Cafe photo series of Andy and do a Man in the Museum series. | | | | | | | | | | |
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| Detail from a large painting of a swan being chased by a dog. Just lovely. |
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| The streetcar. Things are very tidy here. |
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