ΕΘνικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης
Jun. 18th, 2020 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yannisSo, today I've encountered Athens' pickpockets for the second time, again on the trolley, one stop earlier than the previous time.
This time the trolley was completely packed, and these morons managed to push my ζελατίνα ταυτότητας (the only valuable thing I had) up my pocket and snatch it, but I've noticed it, so they dropped it on the floor and even picked it up to give me back.
Like, do they really think I'm stupid enough to think things can travel UP in my pocket and then drop?
But, again, it was nothing I could do, and besides, as everybody is obliged to wear masks now, I don't even know what their faces look like.
I think it's time to either stop travelling in packed up trolleys, or just leave documents at home. During these two years I've never been in a situation anybody asked me to show my documents anyway.
On the bright side, today I've been in a museum, for the first time since March.
I've decided to go to ΕΘνικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης (ΕΜΣΤ), since I've never been there for some strange reason.
Like, museums opened on Monday, so why not check out how it works for them now.
So, they checked my temperature with this stupid electric forehead no-touch thermometer, and surprisingly it was OK. I say "surprisingly", because before I went to the museum I spent three hours on the beach, and for some reason I had a belief that spending time on the beach results in the rise of body tempertaure. Well, someone told me so. But it seems this is a wrong belief. And if I knew they were going to measure my temperature, I doubt I would have gone to this museum at all.
So, everything was OK, and the only downside was I had to wear mask the whole time I was there. As for the public, I can not say the museum was completely empty. There were some people, although not that many, of course.
Also, this museum has this disgusting feature when they scan all people's belongings, like in an airport, but it has nothing to do with "COVID", they are just stupid morons regardless.
The museum itself is huge, five storeys high+basement, but as all other museums of this type it is almost completely empty, it has just about a hundred showpieces, and first two storeys in fact house some non-museum shit, like libraries, archives, conference halls etc.
On the upper floor they have a good view on Acropolis - the only good thing about this museum. On the other hand, any building in such proximity to Acropolis has a good view on it, so it is nothing to brag about.
Also, the top floor houses "The Boat of My Life" by Ilya Kabakov, a huge ship, visitors can climb up on, which is definitely a highlight of this museum. In fact, Ilya Kabakov is the only artist whose name didn't sound unfamiliar to me, because the museum focuses mainly on Greek artists.
All in all, pretty shitty museum, as any other museum of "modern art".
This time the trolley was completely packed, and these morons managed to push my ζελατίνα ταυτότητας (the only valuable thing I had) up my pocket and snatch it, but I've noticed it, so they dropped it on the floor and even picked it up to give me back.
Like, do they really think I'm stupid enough to think things can travel UP in my pocket and then drop?
But, again, it was nothing I could do, and besides, as everybody is obliged to wear masks now, I don't even know what their faces look like.
I think it's time to either stop travelling in packed up trolleys, or just leave documents at home. During these two years I've never been in a situation anybody asked me to show my documents anyway.
On the bright side, today I've been in a museum, for the first time since March.
I've decided to go to ΕΘνικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης (ΕΜΣΤ), since I've never been there for some strange reason.
Like, museums opened on Monday, so why not check out how it works for them now.
So, they checked my temperature with this stupid electric forehead no-touch thermometer, and surprisingly it was OK. I say "surprisingly", because before I went to the museum I spent three hours on the beach, and for some reason I had a belief that spending time on the beach results in the rise of body tempertaure. Well, someone told me so. But it seems this is a wrong belief. And if I knew they were going to measure my temperature, I doubt I would have gone to this museum at all.
So, everything was OK, and the only downside was I had to wear mask the whole time I was there. As for the public, I can not say the museum was completely empty. There were some people, although not that many, of course.
Also, this museum has this disgusting feature when they scan all people's belongings, like in an airport, but it has nothing to do with "COVID", they are just stupid morons regardless.
The museum itself is huge, five storeys high+basement, but as all other museums of this type it is almost completely empty, it has just about a hundred showpieces, and first two storeys in fact house some non-museum shit, like libraries, archives, conference halls etc.
On the upper floor they have a good view on Acropolis - the only good thing about this museum. On the other hand, any building in such proximity to Acropolis has a good view on it, so it is nothing to brag about.
Also, the top floor houses "The Boat of My Life" by Ilya Kabakov, a huge ship, visitors can climb up on, which is definitely a highlight of this museum. In fact, Ilya Kabakov is the only artist whose name didn't sound unfamiliar to me, because the museum focuses mainly on Greek artists.
All in all, pretty shitty museum, as any other museum of "modern art".
