Museums & Galleries
Louvre
Queues and queue jumpers. Crowds and crowded spaces. There are great art galleries and there’s the Louvre.
- Originally published: 6 Oct 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Mondrian and De Stijl
Following a visit to an exhibition, a discussion of the life and work of the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl movement.
- Originally published: 23 Feb 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Ars Electronica
Is it a museum, an exhibition space or an annual festival? Or is it all three? We were none the wiser after our visit!
- Originally published: 13 Feb 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Albertina
Former residence reopened as a public gallery, featuring a permanent collection of drawings and temporary exhibitions.
- Originally published: 13 Feb 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Naturhistorisches Museum
An opportunity to see Gunther von Hagens’ latest plastination exhibit – this time with animals – within the setting of an amazing museum.
- Originally published: 13 Feb 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Kunsthistorisches Museum
An impressive art and archaeological collection and one of the world’s finest, housed in a vast, palatial building in Vienna.
- Originally published: 13 Feb 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Something appeals to me about the Thyssen-Bornemisza and it’s not just the fine collection of paintings.
- Originally published: 13 Oct 2010 in Museums & Galleries
Museo del Prado
Spain’s premier art museum: fine paintings in a fine setting.
- Originally published: 13 Oct 2010 in Museums & Galleries
Museo Reina Sofia
Madrid’s museum of Spanish art, particularly renowned for its collection of twentieth century works and an exhibition dedicated to the Civil War.
- Originally published: 13 Oct 2010 in Museums & Galleries
Pergamonmuseum
When all the world was brought to Berlin.
- Originally published: 30 Mar 2009 in Museums & Galleries
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Villers-la-Ville
A walk through woodlands and cropfields in the area around the ruins of the Cistercian Abbaye de Villers.
- Originally published: 23 May 2010 in Walking
Send Me No Flowers
A ripe comedy about hypochondria, this movie’s too fast to catch cold.
- Originally published: 13 May 2007 in Film
Society’s nutters
J’s sister gets chased by an odd woman on the Tube. Is society getting more dangerous?
- Originally published: 25 Aug 2005 in Personalia
Da Vinci Bored
Hands up who thought The Da Vinci Code was utter guff?
- Originally published: 19 May 2006 in Editorial
Trier
Germany’s oldest city, Trier was an important centre of the Roman Empire and sometime home to the Emperor himself.
- Originally published: 14 Nov 2011 in Europe
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
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