segunda-feira, 22 de junho de 2009

A report on a visit

So, let's see last visit I made was to the Belem Cultural Center, It's not exactly a museum... but there's a museum there, and that the part i visited. So let's move on to the report of that visit.

"This morning when I woke up, it was about mid day already, but that's common, because I like to sleep late on Saturdays. I had decided yesterday to go to Belem, to eat so cream cakes. Belem's cream cakes are the best in all of Lisbon, if not of the entire contry.
I searched for something to dress (always an adventure) and then picked up my purse ans went on to catch the bus. I went in the bus to the train station in Cais do Sodré. Once there I caught the train in the direction of Oeiras, and stopped at Belem.
After i got of the train, and walked away from the train station, I went to buy the delicious cakes and while eating then, i decided to go visit the Belem Cultural Center, because it's right there in from of the castle , and of a most beautiful park. The place in itself, looks like a big commercial mall, but it has an open area in the center, with water fountains and coffee shops, and lots of little chairs around small, round tables. 'The Belem Cultural Center has four exhibition areas and a Design Museum that presents exhibitions of plastic arts, architecture, design and photography.'
Or so it said in the brochure, they gave me at the entry. Oh! and the nice men with the brochures also gave me the most adorable pin, shaped like a red heart, and saying: "Culture is life". Finally i got to the entry of the actual museum part, i knew immediately that it was the entry to the museum part of the kind of Commercial Mall structure of the building, because it had a huge green monument, that looked like a statue made from Green glass bottle's shaped to look like a really big tree, or the Eiffel tower, one of the two.
Either way, i entered and there's was just a really big hallway, with completely white walls. As I walked along the hallway, pictures started to appear in the fartest walls, after a closer examination, they proved to be photographs of several events, there didn't appear to be them, but there probably was. The one that remained more in my memory was one of a plain crash.
Along the walls there were several planks providing different information about the museum, like: 'Inaugurated in 1999, the Design Museum opened with a show of 200 pieces, chronologically ordered, allowing the visitor to see the evolution of the concept of design through the 20th century.' and also some information about the exposition, currently on hold: 'The collection, known as the Francisco Capelo collection, is divided into three themes: luxury, pop and cool.'
And then by the end of the hallway, the different works of art begin to appear: from what i was able to gather, the first part of the exhibition is dedicated to pieces originally from France and Italy, the second part is more the post-war era, and finally the third, is mostly European works, painting and such, there's also some statues and paintings that look like they are from the industrial era, with a nice new design.
I particularly liked the painting that represented the pop art.
In overall, it was a pretty nice visit, although i thought that the museum, lacked organization, and maybe a little more coherence in the all of the collection, but it was fun, and very instructive.
I took the train and the bus home and that was my visit day.

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