Every Thursday after 6pm, the national museums in Berlin are free. I have known this fact since the beginning of my stay but I have always managed to find something "better" to do with my Thursday evenings-- but no more! After visiting the Louvre in Paris, I have decided to bring some more art and culture into my life in Berlin. From here on out, yell at me if you see me online on a Thursday evening because I should be getting cultured instead.
For my first Museum Thursday, I naturally headed to the most famous museum of them all-- the Pergamon. (I was joined by a fellow museum buddy.) This museum is not full of wimpy paintings, I was told, it houses big gates and statues. This was correct, however, after seeing the Louvre, I was not as impressed as I should have been. Instead, I was just wondering how anyone bothered to move these huge monuments inside these buildings... must have been heavy. Since we were on Museum Island anyway, we made our rounds to the Bode and Alte Nationalgalerie. We finished these museums relatively quickly--chatting our way through. It went something like this: take a picture, oh wow, that's a big statue, hey look it's baby Jesus, oh there he is again but with Maria, oh no he's being crucified in statue form, and then in a painting, oh hey! look at that gold neat-o box thing, hey, what's that metal bowl with the intricate designs... and then my friend comments "that looks old" and I agree. Finally, we both look at each and admit that we wish we had taken some art history so we knew what we were looking at instead of just giving everything a cursory glance. Maybe I'll have better luck with something like a chocolate museum...
LILY
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