A recap of yesterday: One of us had to stay in the flat today because an internet technician was supposed to come and install another connection for us. As it stands, only one of us can plug in our computer to use the internet. Anyways he did not show up. After taking turns going to the grocery store and bakery (only me) we decided to leave the building together, and guess what? We forgot our key inside. Anyways we meet a girl from France, who has been staying here for months and knew some people who knew someone else who knew the house master. Okay this is crazy because, people who work in administration jobs in Austria only work until about 4 pm, and we could have been locked out all weekend. So Sebastian and Christen who are both from Germany and very good looking decided to make it their mission to help us get into our flat. They called and face booked people all over the world to find this phone number. And after about an hour of looking, found the phone number. So 45 minutes later the house master showed up with the key, charged us 30 Euros and left. Thank god we got into our flat. If we didn’t I don’t know what the weekend would have looked like.
So the plan for today...February 6, 2010.We decide to take on the challenge of riding the subway, tram trains and buses. We are going to find a meeting for me of the U-Bahn 4 and then we will be off to the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst (MAK). The Austrian museum of Applied Arts. My roommate is sleeping so I am signing off for now..but I’ll be back.
Today was a great day, we didn’t find a meeting but we did make our way around Vienna via U-Bahn train. We ended up going to the MAK Applied Arts Museum. I was so happy to be there. I learned a lot about certain things that were there. When we first got there we found out it was free on Saturdays. The MAK is a place of art that past and present meet. Contemporary artist have created an unparallel interaction between artistic heritage and contemporary art. Set up in 1863 as a “model collection of all kinds’, the Mak Collection has always been and still is seen internationally as an extraordinary crossover between applied art, design, contemporary art and architecture.
The first thing I saw was beautiful lace displayed from different countries in Europe. The first piece was from Italy 16 century and was called a “cushion insert” an outstanding piece of lace to say the least. The next piece I saw was from the 17 century and was called “lady’s portrait in a frame of lace work” over the top classy. Thirdly was a piece from France and was called “border” a needlepoint lace that was probably the most amazing pieces of lace I have ever seen. I know this is probably not too important to you, but I really loved it.
The 17 century furniture was so exquisite that, I am not sure I can explain it how I saw it but I’ll try. The cabinet designed by David Roentegen was brown maple, rosewood, myrtle wood, with various stained woods and gilt-bronzed mounts is an achievement that cabinetmaker would be inspired to copy. The tabernacle cabinets, library tables and other items in this area could have kept me there for hours. I think I may have to re-visit this museum and to truly capture everything that is there.
After we left the museum, we headed home and ended up talking for 2 hours about our day, our lives and how we are getting use to be and living in Vienna.
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