Painting and Photography 看油画和摄影

July 6, 2022

With the two-day museum passes, we returned to Museum Island this morning to continue our museum tour while our daughter visited her company's Berlin Office. We didn't spend much time outside on the island yesterday, so we went to the island early before the museums opened. The island was quiet and beautiful, and we took many pictures. Then, we went to the Alte National Galerie, where 19th-century oil paintings and sculptures were displayed. We didn't know much about art history, so we rented an audio guide to help us learn more about the art collections in the museum. As we slowly strolled from one collection to another, we appreciated the displayed art collections and the stories behind them. Our next stop was the famous Berlin Cathedral on the island. We climbed over 200 steps to the top and the panorama view was breathtaking. By this time, we had seen countless large and small churches in Europe, and we considered Berlin Cathedral one of the best.

We wanted to visit the Museum of Photography. We took the subway to Berlin Zoo station. By then, the weather had turned windy and chilly, and we did not dress appropriately for the weather. After a quick lunch at a nearby shopping mall, we returned to our hotel to add more layers of clothes. Then we hopped on a bus to the museum, and our son met us there. The Museum of Photography in Berlin is a museum of Helmut Newton's Photography, funded by the Helmut Newton foundation. The collections displayed in the museum were mainly his works. He is one of the twentieth century's great photographers, but we didn't know him at all, and we found many of the pictures displayed in the museum were just too disturbing. We do not mean to discredit his work in any way, just the photos were not what we expected to see, and we were a little disappointed.

Our daughter joined us for dinner after work. We found a restaurant serving Vegan schnitzel. Surprisingly the vegan schnitzel tasted better than the pork schnitzel we ordered, and our daughter was pleased with the restaurant's choice.

We were told at the hotel that all AC units were working now. It was a cold night, and we did not even need the AC to cool down the room tonight.

欧洲游第四十七天：昨天买了博物馆的联票，今天去博物馆岛继续参观博物馆。先去了艺术馆，那里展示了十九世纪的油画和雕塑，反正我们是外行看热闹，听听语音介绍，了解一下历史，觉得那些展示品都很不错。然后又去了在岛上的著名的柏林大教堂，这次来欧洲已经看了大大小小无数的教堂，这个应该算是我们见过的天主教堂中最好的之一。下午回旅馆稍微休息一下就又坐公交车去摄影博物馆，展览的作品不是我们所期待的，有些失望。晚上找了一家有吃炸素肉排的餐厅，没想到他们店的炸素肉排比炸猪排还好吃，女儿也算是没遗憾了。