Museo de Bellas Artes

I know I promised intense academia... and it's coming. But first I thought Mom might want to see a couple pictures of their Museum of Fine Arts. The Museum of Fine Arts in Chile is the oldest art museum in Latin America. I could only take pictures of the front and then inside the main atrium. Although I did manage to sneak one of this strange "magia" exhibit. Here is the building:


Inside the atrium you may be able to see that along the wall are various busts and other statues. Some of them are replicas (one Donatello replica on the balcony) but most are orginals from 50-150 years ago. This is the inside:


And then there was this room that introduces itself by saying (in a very dark ominous, booming voice) something like "man and magic have been intertwined since the dawn of time" and then this creepy music (circus-like) is playing and you look through slits in this oval shaped enclosure (audience walks around the outside) and this odd little carousel contraption is twirling on the inside. I didn't really enjoy it. I felt like I was in a Bond movie (like that room with all the mirrors and that booming voice, or that one where he's in Egypt). Anyway, I kept expecting someone to step out of the shadows with a revolver. Well, no one did, so I took a picture:


The subway was pretty funny on the way back. Not sure who other than Taylor would appreciate the fact that in their super (Sue-PEAR!) modern metro system they were playing the music video to "Rock DJ" on the flat plasma screens. Oh man. And then when I got off it was Phil Collins. Enough.