March 26, 2012

• The Lentos Art Museum

  We got a list of the Top Ten Things to Do in Linz when we first arrived. Slowly but surely, we’ve been checking off items. One of the “Must See” places was the Lentos Art Museum, a glass and metal structure on the banks of the Danube. 

  

  They had been advertising an exhibit called “Car Culture.” I was excited for Michael–finally! Something at a museum he’d want to see! I pictured a lot of cool cars or tricked-out cars. Silly me. It’s a MODERN ART museum!

  

  Now, I can’t say that the displays weren’t amusing. There was a VW Beetle with two TVs on the dashboard which played a loop of windshield wipers going back and forth and pounding rain. There was an old convertible that they had filled up to the tops of the door with what looked like water (but was some sort of shellac or something). They had a shiny Smart Car.

  

   

  A car made out of metal wires suspended from the ceiling (pretty cool)

  

  This car looked like a nifty sports car. 

  

   

  But when you looked inside, it was all PVC pipe, tape,  and a pedal bike system!

  

   

  Wood paneled station wagon wreck gone even more wooden

  

   

  And there was this centipede-like car. 

  

   

  The sides of the car were made of recycled white shirts.  

  

   

  And this is what it looked like inside.

  

   

  The rest of the museum was modern art.  The one piece which was sort of neat was this one. 

  

   

  On the stomach using those pieces of thread? A map of the London Underground!

  

   

  This photograph reminds me of a painting by Norman Rockwell. 

  

   

  This was a sweet painting called “Coming Home.”

  

   

  Got to have a little fun!

  

   

  After we visited the museum (which was a pretty fast tour with only one real floor of art work), we hung out on the banks of the river and just enjoyed the sunshine.

   

             

   

  And we looked at our next destination: Postlingburg!

   

  

   

   

   

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