Benátky nad Jizerou. My husband has been reading a book on Johann Kepler so we took a trip to to this small town to find out what it feels like to be there. Kepler was here. And Tycho Brahe, too. A chateau and a park have a nice genius loci but the town itself gives a kind of a sad feeling. We went to a museum in the chateau. I have to say I like these museums, sort of on the edge of everything, little neglected and dusty, fighting to survive culturally and economically. Mixture of natural and cultural history with a special room on astronomy. Fossilized snails, celtic oppidum and interactive panel with Brahe's solar system. Domik was putting together a big castle blocks and I could look and read in quiet. Coffee in the down town and ready to rush home.By the way, the book is supposed to be very good.
And if you were wandering what it is on the first and last pictures, they are sgraffiti on the facade of the chateau. Hunting scenes, 1572.
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I don't think I've seen a museum like that in a long time. They all seem to have audio guides, and TV screens, but at least every single object is labled:)!
wow,
love the atmosphere, the colours...
thanks!
ps. i answered to your question about those illustrators in my earlier cv post :)
hugs!
What a beautiful town! I love going to the museum. Have a great weekend!
such nice photos. oh, the snails! they make me feel guilty, because yesterday i threw out about 100 tiny snail shells that my kids had collected from the beach this summer. the kids had forgotten about them and it seemed okay to throw them out. perhaps i am a bad mother. i enjoyed reading your interview on black mustard!
I love it! It looks old...nothing is old in Canada. I also love the snails. I remember them from when I was a chld. I loved saving the shells...of course there would usually be a live snail in there and they would stink!!
Raining sheep, you were a cool kid! You were collecting shells with live snails inside! I like it.
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