Museum Mania (7/22-23)

This weekend was a weekend full of museums. There are so many here, and they are free or super cheap. It was such a beautiful weekend and crowds were out in force. But that certainly didn't stop us. (Shoot, that was part of the draw for me!) We went to Las Condes Cultural Center where they had a Leonardo da Vinci exhibit, showing mostly studies of figures before actual paintings , sketches of anatomy, and plans for machines (i.e.. flying machine, tanks, weapons). Very interesting! This man was a genius who's mind was never at rest.

We went to Quinta Normal and the National Museum of Natural History. We saw some of the things I didn't see the first time. We also walked in the park to see what else it had to offer. There is a lagoon for boating, a children's museum, a train museum, and a science museum, all in the same park! We enjoyed the walk and the opportunity to rest our brains a little. Going to a museum is an intense Spanish language workout because we read all the comments to go with each display. You can bet it takes me hours to read everything. So, it's a good thing they are free. I can come back anytime to pick up where I left off.

We also went to an art museum that seemed to be geared mostly towards children. There were lots of activities going on. There were art lessons, a build-a-spaceship craft, hands-on displays about technique, color, shading, foreground, line, form, etc. Then there were replicas of famous works of art to look at and a video/movie to watch that went with the exhibits. An excellent learning experience. But, what interested me most was the building which I understand was built to represent Chile in the World's Fair of 1889 in Paris, France.

You know, I haven't been traveling all over during my break, but I certainly am experiencing Chile. Really, I worry that maybe I am getting spoiled and that returning to little London might be hard after all this.