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Greece's Full Moon Festival 2020
Aug. 4th, 2020 02:23 amSo, yesterday I've been to two museums: the Numismatic Museum and the National Archaeological Museum, due to this "Full Moon" events.
Neither of them measures temperature, but you have to wear mask, "keep distance" and they only let a limited number of visitors in, which means queues at the entrance.
And besides, you have only a limited amount of time to spend in each room, and if you stay longer the security guards basically ask you to go further. How do they measure time you spend in each room? I guess they don't. It's up to them to decide whether you need to go furher. Security guards of all kinds are kings in these corona times. They decide what should you do and where you should go and where you should not.
Well, the Numismatic Museum is OK. The stickers on the floor show directions you should follow. Once you leave the room you can't go back. If you spend too much time examining ancient coins, they will kick you out to the next room. The first floor is completely closed, so you can only visit the ground floor with six rooms. Each room houses boxes of coins, sometimes as many as ten. So there are a few thosands of ancient coins there, I think. Not bad.
The National Archaeological Museum is a completely different story. First of all, there was a huge queue due to visitors' number limitation. I spent an hour standing in this line. Well, I've been to the Hermitage and to Louvre, so it's not a big deal, really.
Then it turned out they installed these stupid security terminals, like in an airport, with luggage screening and metal detectors. Quite an upgrade.
As for the inside, there were again these stickers on the floor, security guards watching everyone to move fast enough etc.
To tell the truth, maybe it was a good experince, if you go through it once. We are living during corona time, so let's enjoy it anyway lol. We'll have a lot to tell if we will have someone to tell it to.
But seriously, due to this visitors' number limitation, the museum was half empty, without crowds, and you don't see such a picture often. Why not take some great photos of great artifacts without disgusting people swarming around pieces of art like flies swarming around pieces of shit. Lol.
So yeah, at least I took some pictures I wouldn't have a chance to take in ordinary circumstanses; empty rooms, no idiots posing in front of statues, just pure art lol.
However, some rooms were closed (like Egyptian rooms, ancient broze rooms etc). And the temporary exhibition "These are what we fought for…" was closed completely. I peeked into the room, which was supposed to house it (the entrance was barricaded by cardboard screen), and it seemed completely empty. However, wasn't this exhibition innaugurated back in February? The news say it was. And now it is closed and nobody is let in. Pretty strange, indeed.
So, this is what museum going feels like during corona times.
Neither of them measures temperature, but you have to wear mask, "keep distance" and they only let a limited number of visitors in, which means queues at the entrance.
And besides, you have only a limited amount of time to spend in each room, and if you stay longer the security guards basically ask you to go further. How do they measure time you spend in each room? I guess they don't. It's up to them to decide whether you need to go furher. Security guards of all kinds are kings in these corona times. They decide what should you do and where you should go and where you should not.
Well, the Numismatic Museum is OK. The stickers on the floor show directions you should follow. Once you leave the room you can't go back. If you spend too much time examining ancient coins, they will kick you out to the next room. The first floor is completely closed, so you can only visit the ground floor with six rooms. Each room houses boxes of coins, sometimes as many as ten. So there are a few thosands of ancient coins there, I think. Not bad.
The National Archaeological Museum is a completely different story. First of all, there was a huge queue due to visitors' number limitation. I spent an hour standing in this line. Well, I've been to the Hermitage and to Louvre, so it's not a big deal, really.
Then it turned out they installed these stupid security terminals, like in an airport, with luggage screening and metal detectors. Quite an upgrade.
As for the inside, there were again these stickers on the floor, security guards watching everyone to move fast enough etc.
To tell the truth, maybe it was a good experince, if you go through it once. We are living during corona time, so let's enjoy it anyway lol. We'll have a lot to tell if we will have someone to tell it to.
But seriously, due to this visitors' number limitation, the museum was half empty, without crowds, and you don't see such a picture often. Why not take some great photos of great artifacts without disgusting people swarming around pieces of art like flies swarming around pieces of shit. Lol.
So yeah, at least I took some pictures I wouldn't have a chance to take in ordinary circumstanses; empty rooms, no idiots posing in front of statues, just pure art lol.
However, some rooms were closed (like Egyptian rooms, ancient broze rooms etc). And the temporary exhibition "These are what we fought for…" was closed completely. I peeked into the room, which was supposed to house it (the entrance was barricaded by cardboard screen), and it seemed completely empty. However, wasn't this exhibition innaugurated back in February? The news say it was. And now it is closed and nobody is let in. Pretty strange, indeed.
So, this is what museum going feels like during corona times.
