2013-11-13: Day 49 – Tourist catch-up
There are many and various museums in Budapest but these two stood out for me... ok, the Robert Capa thing isn't a museum it's an exhibition in a museum but you get the idea.
I could give some kind of detail as to who Robert Capa was if you don't know but it seems vastly easier to just link to here. I find photography a much more pleasing art form than painting to look at and this was a fine collection. Being, primarily, a war photographer there were some amazing shots and it does make you think about the risks these people took to report what was going on. When you see photos of the Omaha beach landings which were taken in and amongst the soldiers it does make you wonder as to the precise degree of sanity involved.
The Ethnography museum had several different exhibitions on in addition to it's staple Hungarian history stuff. I sauntered around exhibits on Croatian folk art, the Fekete Körös valley at the turn of the 20th century and Ryijy.
It is the Ryijy I want to dwell upon for a moment by showing this picture.
Eva Brummer was one of the ryijy designers, who thought that ryijys could also be used on the floor...
Forgive me but are they or are they not rugs?
On the return from the museums I passed Cafe Picard. Had it not been closed I'd have found out just what level of amusement the staff can be bothered to feign when someone orders "Tea, Earl Grey, hot". Alas...
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