Instead of Natural History. Museum of Contemporary Art. Pantaloon Bee on Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Berlin, Germany
I'd wanted very much to revisit the Museum for Natural History but it was solidly booked the entire week of our stay. Tickets for the Museum of Contemporary Art, though, were easy to get. So we were sated by a huge exhibition to honor Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), the initiator of the highly influential art movement 'Fluxus', perhaps noted to the general public most for his performance 'How to explain pictures to a dead hare' (1965).
The huge museum is at least as notable for its neo-classical architecture. It was built 1846-7 as the main trainstation of the Berlin-Hamburg run. Used as such only until 1884, it was restyled to a museum for building and transport in 1906. Surviving WWII more or less intact, it is now devoted to contemporary art.
In the photo you can see an oval piece of park just in front; it's an ecological work of natural art. There I saw Mouse-ear Hawkweed - often regarded a weed - visited by a pretty marvelous Pantaloon Bee: just regard the pollinated leg. Who needs the natural history of e.g. taxidermy after that?
Instead of Natural History. Museum of Contemporary Art. Pantaloon Bee on Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Berlin, Germany
I'd wanted very much to revisit the Museum for Natural History but it was solidly booked the entire week of our stay. Tickets for the Museum of Contemporary Art, though, were easy to get. So we were sated by a huge exhibition to honor Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), the initiator of the highly influential art movement 'Fluxus', perhaps noted to the general public most for his performance 'How to explain pictures to a dead hare' (1965).
The huge museum is at least as notable for its neo-classical architecture. It was built 1846-7 as the main trainstation of the Berlin-Hamburg run. Used as such only until 1884, it was restyled to a museum for building and transport in 1906. Surviving WWII more or less intact, it is now devoted to contemporary art.
In the photo you can see an oval piece of park just in front; it's an ecological work of natural art. There I saw Mouse-ear Hawkweed - often regarded a weed - visited by a pretty marvelous Pantaloon Bee: just regard the pollinated leg. Who needs the natural history of e.g. taxidermy after that?