Amsterdam is a vibrant city with incredible food, lively culture and fantastic architecture. Hidden among the canals…
Visit the most magnificently macabre museum in the center of Florence! A unique experience, unlike anything you’ll have seen before.
The Thorvaldsen museum is a lovingly curated experience and takes you on an intimate journey throughout Thorvaldsen’s life through moments frozen in marble.
Chapultepec Castle stands at the top of Chapultepec Hill, overlooking the capital of Mexico City. It seems strange to have a neo-classical, European-looking castle in the middle of the metropolitan and modern downtown. As out of place as it seems, amongst the bright and colourful architecture of Mexico City, the charm of Chapultepec still draws people in. The Castle is still one of the most visited landmarks in Mexico City.
In the cosy, seaside village of Yokohama, you’ll find the fabled Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum. Although it’s dubbed a “museum”, the experience you’ll have is more in line with a trip to Epcot. The museum is almost like visiting a food-themed amusement park which sends you back in time in tastes and visuals.
From the minute you step into the bright, shiny, neat and tidy, perfect curated aisles of the huge warehouse that is the Pinball Hall of Fame, if you’re anything like me and have a soft spot in your heart for nostalgia, you’ll have found your nerdy heaven.
The Heavenly Bodies collection at the Cloisters focuses on the quiet, reflective nature of faith. The outfits are more complicated, require more thought and observation, and due to the remote location, allows you to have a more personal experience with the objects.
The Byzantine Galleries focus on designers who were influenced by Sacred Spaces; the interior of Cathedrals and churches, and who brought elements from those spaces into the garments. The dresses are paired with fragments of floor mosaics from the 5th century as well as pieces of Byzantine jewellery and silverware. The mannequins each stand high aloft of tall plinths. The dresses are still clearly visible and yet are somewhat separated from the historical art along the walls.
Heavenly Bodies explores “fashion’s ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism.” The Vatican collection provides a great reference for seeing the modern fashion in the rest of the exhibition.
There are hundreds of museums all over the world, and almost every one of them is worth a peek inside, but probably my favourite oddball museum is the Musée Mécanique in San Francisco. This place is truly a one of a kind collection of mechanical oddities saved by a devoted collector. Together they tell a story of a bygone era.