Museums postscript
I should perhaps have included the Imperial War Museum in my Top Ten.
But that blog drew an interesting comment from a very interesting Kiwi blogger, who finds BoB 'interesting' (a pleasingly neutral adjective). However, said blogger accused me of having a 'deep and unwarranted pro-New Zealand bias,' which I reject utterly. Deep yes, but entirely warranted. This comment was partly because Te Papa was Number One: I should have specified that the museums were not in ranked order, but merely as they occurred to me. So if anyone at Te Papa is readying a campaign claiming that I consider them to be the World's Finest Museum, they can stop right now.
I might also now include the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC.
Anyway, the very entertaining blog is called Where in the World is Gwannel Sandiego and can be found at http://gwannelsandiego.blogspot.com/. And I quote, with permission, the scalpel-sharp dismissal of one of my least favourite museums:
'The National Museum in Prague is one giant yawn-fest, let me warn you! It's pretty much an unreformed old-school museum, full of acres of glass cabinets containing different rocks or bugs, stuffed animals and bones.'
Right on the money. Read the whole thing.
But that blog drew an interesting comment from a very interesting Kiwi blogger, who finds BoB 'interesting' (a pleasingly neutral adjective). However, said blogger accused me of having a 'deep and unwarranted pro-New Zealand bias,' which I reject utterly. Deep yes, but entirely warranted. This comment was partly because Te Papa was Number One: I should have specified that the museums were not in ranked order, but merely as they occurred to me. So if anyone at Te Papa is readying a campaign claiming that I consider them to be the World's Finest Museum, they can stop right now.
I might also now include the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC.
Anyway, the very entertaining blog is called Where in the World is Gwannel Sandiego and can be found at http://gwannelsandiego.blogspot.com/. And I quote, with permission, the scalpel-sharp dismissal of one of my least favourite museums:
'The National Museum in Prague is one giant yawn-fest, let me warn you! It's pretty much an unreformed old-school museum, full of acres of glass cabinets containing different rocks or bugs, stuffed animals and bones.'
Right on the money. Read the whole thing.
posted by BoB at 5:36 PM
1 Comments:
Ha ha thank you very much. And I was alerted to my entree into your blog by my intrepidly 'curious' mother, so I've even recruited you another reader. I'll telegraph Te Papa and tell them to call off the advertising blitz at once. And PS, a friend of mine suffered through Roaccutane at school and came through the mummy stage with flying colours, so best of luck.
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