museum day

as a break from studying for finals, some of my housemates and i took a field trip to a number of exhibits at various museums around the city. our first stop was at the statens museum for kunst (the national art museum) for an exhibit called "flowers and world views". the exhibition explores a period when individuals were poised between a symbolic and a rather more scientific approach in viewing the world and sheds light on how this was evident in the art of flower painting. it shows how 17^th and 18^th century artists portrayed flowers, which is contingent on history and on how artists view the world.

we also saw the exhibition named “we the people”, which displays a full-scale replica of the statue of liberty has been built at a metal workshop in shanghai. however, the statue has not been welded together to reach its full height, but has rather, been split into approximately 400 fragments that have been scattered across the entire world. fragments including her crown spikes and feet have made it to copenhagen. her feet and toes were smaller than i had expected...

we then visited the danish architecture center, where there is a new exhibition entitled “your harbor at the dac”. this exhibition casts a spotlight on the rapid development of copenhagen’s inner harbor, which has been developing as an increasingly attractive, fascinating and open recreational area, providing the people of copenhagen with a wonderful range of activities and experiences.

from 2013, a total of four new bicycle and pedestrian bridges between nyhavn and christianshavn will make life easier for the many residents and students who cross the harbor entrance on a daily basis. the largest of the bridges is called inderhavnsbroen (the inner harbor bridge), which is being constructed as two retractable cantilever platforms whose decks can be retracted by a sliding mechanism when ships need to pass.

we ended the night with a cup of hot chocolate at a nearby cafe before getting a little more fresh air on the bike home, re-energized for a night of studying.