Adam and Eve as you've never seen them before....

On two different days I visited the Hungarian National Museum, and the Hungarian National Gallery. I wasn't very impressed with the Museum, but thoroughly enjoyed the Gallery. The most impressive thing about the Museum I thought was the purpose built building it was housed in. The grand staircase and a couple of the display rooms were amazingly painted or decorated. They have done a lot to display the finds from caves and graves in the natural surroundings that they were found, but unfortunately there seem to be only a few things that have lasted thousands of years. Every Museum I have seen carries samples of pottery and tools and necklaces and weapons and gold items from the European stone age, bronze age, and iron age. When you have seen one, seeing more of the same becomes boring. There was a mini exhibition of 'treasures that were in pieces and were restored by the museum restorers to as new condition. In this display there were some nice looking pieces. To see the Hungarian National Gallery, first I had to find it. I was told it was in the castle/palace on the hill under the eagle. As I was crossing the Chain Bridge on foot I spotted the eagle high above and got a rough idea from that where I was headed. I found it without any trouble and spent an enjoyable three hours or more wandering around a lovely collection of Hungarian Paintings and Sculptures. I only took photos of those I liked and for the ability to take photos in the gallery I had to pay an extra 500 florints and wear a sticker on my shirt to show I had paid. I was approached twice on every floor by attendants who hadn't spotted my sticker. Woop te do, 500 florints is only $2.50. I make no excuses for my choice of subject matter. I don't always know what is good, but I know what I like.. Tomorrow morning I get a train to Prague, and so that just leaves a week in Prague and a week in Berlin. After that I am on my way back home again. I have to admit that I am keen to escape the 35 to 40 degree European summer temperatures, which have made my travelling seem quite intrepid this year....

Hungarian National Museum 1840

on the steps

Internal main staircase

with beautiful painted wall panels

and ceiling panels

like this one

room under central dome has 6 huge lamps

and a patterned interior

all stone, bronze, and iron age tribes

leave behind pottery cattle and sheep

and most museums have displays of weaponry

helmets

and gold decorative pieces

from churches or kings

this little fella was restored

this was broken too, and restored

and this

and this

and this

eagle as seen from chain bridge

later at the palace

taken from the dome of the Palace

the Victory statue

under the eagle is the Palace Courtyard

The Palace, home to Hungarian National Gallery

Thirsty hunter

a shepherd (didn't they dress funny)

The dancer

The cutest Adam and Eve ever....

worth another look

social realism

siblings

boy with bread and butter

what an expression, didn't get bread and butter?

departing

Sunday afternoons, I remember them well..

mother and son

Harvest in

The apple harvest

the handshake

husking corn

Women pulling boat on river...

Churning butter

yawning apprentice 1890

Shepherd and peasant girl

Church on Sunday

Portrait of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt

helping dad

orphans is the title

boys skipping stones 1870

two of four floors of art

title is the interrogation

part of a triptych

desolation

lovely balance of colour

the veil

father and uncle with red wine

coquette

light and colour

artist's children

cellist, one of my favourites

I'm sure it carved itself

talented sculptor

Dying Mozart conducting his Requiem

Outside of a frame, inside a frame.

I wondered where he'd got to.