The National Museum

So we only scratched the surface of the museum; it was huge. We never made it off the ground floor; only did maybe a half of the ground floor. The section we spent most of our time in (design pre-1900, crafts, and fashion) was probably not the most impressive section of the museum but it was actually very interesting because it provided so much context about what you were seeing.

Most of the section was dedicated to fashion and architecture, with elaborate enclosures to display period pieces, clothing, and art in context. It reminded me of the Met in NYC, which has a similar display.

But we had to go through a few other rooms to get there, and there was some contemporary pieces. Unfortunately, they were actually kind of cool and not very mock-able. Except maybe the yellow mold thing that looked like it might absorb you like "The Blob."

There was one rotating exhibit that was dedicated to Roman and Egyptian statues and art that was quite spectacular.

A few other random shots that I thought were interesting; an amulet meant to help the dead in the underworld, a display of Samurai swords and Kimonos from Japan, Coronation gown for Queen Maud (funny story, there's a statue of her outside the royal palace with an inscription, but "Queen" in Norwegian is "Droning," so the caption was "Dronning Maud" and I read it as "Droning" and was, like, why did they build a statue of someone who was so boring?"), displays of other period pieces.

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