Passing NEMO

Photo by Stephen Bohn

The large, oddly shaped building in the background is the wonderful NEMO Science Center of Amsterdam. The current building was designed by Renzo Piano in 1997. The hands-on museum is the fifth most visited museum in the Netherlands.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

A partial view of the Dutch national museum dedicated to art and history. It was moved to Amsterdam from the Hague in 1808 and contains over a million objects, including masterpieces by Rembrandt and other Golden Age painters.

Royal Picture Gallery

This museum is located in The Hague, in the Netherlands. The collection features Dutch and Flemish artists, such as Johannes Vermeer, whose Girl with a Pearl Earring is displayed on the banner above. This museum is well worth visiting and we also visited the Escher Museum on the same day.

Iron Door

This image is based on one of the many beautiful doors and architectural highlights at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida. I've changed the color from a green patina to golden hues with textures.

Glassware on Table

This is based on a photo I took last December in a museum on Bonaire which displayed exhibits of early plantation life.

Vitruvian Man

This wooden sculpture of da Vinci's Vitruvian Man is located just outside the Leonardo Da Vinci museum in his hometown of Vinci, Italy. The museum is filled with wonderful exhibits and includes many of his inventions, drawings and various machines.

Mainz, Old and New

A view of the 1000-year-old Mainz Cathedral is seen in the distance past a modern art installation at the State Museum (Landesmuseum).

Permanent Residents

Although several buildings are located on the Zuiderzee Museum property at Enkhuizen, goats are supposedly the only creatures who live onsite full-time.

Brussels Museum Banner

The bright red banner of the City of Brussels Museum. The museum is located in the Grand Place, inside the Maison du Roi, or King's House, and was built in the 14th century.  It showcases the history of Brussels and contains a room filled entirely with costumes for the Mannekin Pis, the famous peeing boy statue. Many of the costumes have been donated by countries all over the world and include costumes of Elvis and Dracula.
Textures by Shadowhouse Creations and Natmarie

Oceanographic Museum, Monaco

The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco celebrated its 100th birthday two years ago. It has a spectacular setting atop the cliff overlooking the Mediterranean.
Adjustment layers were added for effect.

Sepia Study

Mr. Lee Anderson kindly posed for me at the Pioneer Living History Museum in Phoenix. Lee is both a history "re-enactor" and the Executive Director of the museum. He is a fascinating person to talk with, not just because of his encyclopedic knowledge of Arizona history, but because of his affable and genuine demeanor.

This photo was originally taken in black and white. I changed the mode to RGB, then added a sepia tone and a texture overlay.

Musical Instrument Museum

Mongolian Bull Mask (Makhi Tsam)

We visited this wonderful new museum earlier this week. MIM opened in April of 2010 and has thousands of musical instruments from every country in the world on display, along with other fascinating objects. We ate lunch in the cafe before spending several hours looking at and listening to the exhibits.

Guitar Guy was in heaven with so many guitars to check out and exhibits by Fender and Martin, among others. I indulged my interest in anthropology by perusing the ritual masks and costumes from various world cultures. It's a great experience for the entire family.