Museo San Francisco
By Taylor Flanagan
--Pidgeons - There were tons of pidgeons outside in the square. It looked like the buildings were striped gray because of the pidgeons resting on every ridge of the surrounding buildings. Also there were people doing some blood tests on them and taking readings and things.
--No Pictures - The Museo doesn't allow photos because "the people don't listen to the tour guide." This was frustrating because the catacombs were really photogenic.
--The tour guide - The tour was sort of flat and I prefer to set my own pace in museums.
--Painting of Last Supper - There was a huge painting of the last supper with all sorts of Peruvian foods and the devil whispering in the ear of Judas.
--13 Martyrs and their deaths - There was a lot of emphasis on the torture of these men. There were images of them everywhere (holding different things that represent how they were killed).
--Paintings without faces - There were paintings all along the halls that had been destroyed and covered by other paintings of similiar images by a different artist. The originals had all the faces of San Francisco whited out.
--Bats - There were bats sleeping in the ceiling.
--The Library - The library had that really great musty book smell and these really beautiful spiral staircases. It reminded me of that scene in Beauty and the Beast (I know, I know).
--The catacombs - The catacombs were very easy to get lost in, with low sloping ceilings and sudden steps down or up. It was really weird knowing that I was "walking on thousands of bodies" as we made our way through them.
--The arranged bones - Probably the most interesting experience for me was finding out that the really famous picture of all the skulls and femures in the big circlular enclosure with skulls studding the candlelit walls, that that picture was set up to be that way for tourists. That kind of took the fun out of it a little bit (I naively thought that the bones were buried that way as part of some sort of ritual).
Comments:
For the most part I had a really good time at this museum, but I wish they would let people experience things at their own pace a little bit more.
Sorry for the incorrect spellings (I thrive on spell check).
--Pidgeons - There were tons of pidgeons outside in the square. It looked like the buildings were striped gray because of the pidgeons resting on every ridge of the surrounding buildings. Also there were people doing some blood tests on them and taking readings and things.
--No Pictures - The Museo doesn't allow photos because "the people don't listen to the tour guide." This was frustrating because the catacombs were really photogenic.
--The tour guide - The tour was sort of flat and I prefer to set my own pace in museums.
--Painting of Last Supper - There was a huge painting of the last supper with all sorts of Peruvian foods and the devil whispering in the ear of Judas.
--13 Martyrs and their deaths - There was a lot of emphasis on the torture of these men. There were images of them everywhere (holding different things that represent how they were killed).
--Paintings without faces - There were paintings all along the halls that had been destroyed and covered by other paintings of similiar images by a different artist. The originals had all the faces of San Francisco whited out.
--Bats - There were bats sleeping in the ceiling.
--The Library - The library had that really great musty book smell and these really beautiful spiral staircases. It reminded me of that scene in Beauty and the Beast (I know, I know).
--The catacombs - The catacombs were very easy to get lost in, with low sloping ceilings and sudden steps down or up. It was really weird knowing that I was "walking on thousands of bodies" as we made our way through them.
--The arranged bones - Probably the most interesting experience for me was finding out that the really famous picture of all the skulls and femures in the big circlular enclosure with skulls studding the candlelit walls, that that picture was set up to be that way for tourists. That kind of took the fun out of it a little bit (I naively thought that the bones were buried that way as part of some sort of ritual).
Comments:
For the most part I had a really good time at this museum, but I wish they would let people experience things at their own pace a little bit more.
Sorry for the incorrect spellings (I thrive on spell check).
posted by Carol | 8:42 PM
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