Museum Hopper

We did a day trip to den hague when we were staying in amsterdam.   Haags gemeentemuseum is a little bit outside the downtown and we took a tram to get there! It was a pleasant surprise!  We really ended up enjoying the museum quite  abit.  We get there about ~2 hrs prior to closing.   We first walked through the exhibit, Asian Art and Dutch Taste .  It drew interesting connections of Art to the Asian culture.  I had never noticed the influence of the culture.  I loved how they highlighted the China and how the Dutch made changes and claimed it as their own.  This included jewelry, clothes, furniture, and painting. We had to go to this museum since it had three paintings on 1001 Paintings list.  Two for Piet Mondrian since he is Dutch (who knew?).  One was a traditional classic landscape and the other were the geometric paintings.  We learned quite a bit about the movement and the other players at the time.  ...

This museum was one of Jason's picks for our visit to the Hague.  We really enjoyed the Escher in Het Paleis .  It was so very interesting.  I find that I have really been enjoying the small museums focused on one artist lately.  They may not be your best bang for the buck, but they sure are a great size and wonderful to see the progression of an artist.  I had no idea that Escher did all of these sketches/paintings. Aren't these so cool?  The tessellations are fascinating.  I remember learning them in middle school, in particular his fish ones.   The museum is also pretty interesting to walk through.  It is a former palace of the Netherlands monarchy.  The former queen used to live in this palace and it is the only one open to the public.   One thing that irritated me a smidge was that they charged you to pictures in the slanted floor room.  Like, we didn't pay to get in... It was interesting to see his t...