National Museum in Warsaw

 Our original plan for this week was a museum marathon. The plan was to see all of the most exciting museums in Warsaw in less then a week — or two. It almost went as planned. We already missed Monday, and we will miss today I already know. However yesterday we did got to a museum! And not to any kinda museum!

Yesterday we explored the National Museum in Warsaw! It’s a bigass museum with three flights full of exhibitions. When we entered the building we got rid of our coats and went to the loo which resulted us entering the whole museum-museum behind a foreign Asian couple. We knew they had no idea where they were going, so we stayed behind them, because we also had no clue where we were, and what our tickets were good for. I even told Sari that ‘we should stay behind them so they were gonna get yelled at.’ We fallowed them to the first entrance, where a lady was the guard, they showed her their tickets and the lady burst out yelling something in Polish. So we guessed our ticket was not good for that exhibition. As we were going back in the corridor I asked the guy if he understood anything she said, but of course he didn’t. So I went up to another much younger and much nicer looking lady in the museum and asked her where could we go with our tickets. As it turned out we could’ve gone anywhere, but that exhibition where we were trying to get in. On the first floor there was an exhibition of alters, and baby Jesus and grown up Jesus, with his mother and etc. I was astonished by the details on those wooden alters, we’ve spent 30 minutes on watching them, however then we realized we have another 3 floors ahead of us so we needed to get going.

The second and the third floor was full of paintings. There were paintings that was nice, however there were paintings that took the whole art-thingy to a whole new level! There were pictures that looked like they were painted in 1080p or 4K! The colors were so strong and structured it looked like a picture taken by some sorta android cell phone. It looked unreal. And the funny thing is that all these pictures — or most of them, I’ll get back to this in a second — were not real. I mean they were a creation, by an artist who could paint the sunset whatever he wanted it to look like. And this rise the question: why are almost all of the old paintings have terrible lines, they are almost always blurry! They could be sharp and mint! I’m not sure if you get what I mean but I hope so. And before I forget I said not all pictures were fictions; a few of the paintings were buildings and squares in Warsaw and these pictures were used as a sample when they were rebuilding the historical downtown! How cool is that?!

Sari, a naked lady, and the dehumidifier  


By the time we got to the 4th floor we were exhausted! You might think that we are a buncha pussies for being exhausted after watching some paintings, but I have to tell you, you are wrong! And I could tell that the problem wasn’t with us because the 4th floor was empty! We were there and the guarding ladies! But no one else! Although It was really special we couldn’t really enjoy it because as I mention earlier we were dying. We checked out as many things as we could and came to a conclusion. We worked hard on this museum visit, so we deserved a treat. Sari suggested burgers and well who can say no to a burger?! We treated ourselves we two nice big burgers in MaxxBuger — Sari’sa favorite burger place.

It was a good day, we saw a lot of things and I’m grateful for that.

I hope you all doing great and see you next time!

Take care

Almos

Location: al. Jerozolimskie 3, 00-495 Warszawa, Poland

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