The Brooklyn Museum...

A cultural weekend continued with an afternoon at the Brooklyn Museum...

I'm not really sure why it's taken us until now to go to Brooklyn Museum, but I'm very glad we eventually went as it's a beautiful building with a brilliant gift shop!

There were really interesting exhibitions on, the best one was the roof that you could go and climb on...

 We all had to sign a waiver and get a special wrist band first, but after that we were free to climb all over the roof, sit or lie down on it, go up one side and down the other, whatever you wanted. 

You could go inside the roof/half house too. Inside was a little fireplace with a mirror and lights round it, and the wall around was covered in little pieces of gold leaf. As you walked in there was a little sign that said 'Please take some gold leaf and add it to the wall as you make a wish/say a prayer'.
So we did...

There was such a calm atmosphere inside the house, knowing that the wall was covered in people wishes and prayers, having had a little quiet time rubbing gold leaf onto the wall. It was oddly quite moving.

The rest of the museum was really good - there was a special Keith Harring exhibition which was... urm... interesting. Well, his work was really striking, but having an insight into his private life was the 'interesting' part. They had some fun interactive tablets to play with though!

There were some other great pieces dotted around the museum, amongst some not so great ones, but it was a fantastic building - it felt enormous!

 It was a lovely relaxing way to spend Sunday afternoon, and it was great to finally go to the museum. We'll definitely keep an eye out for other great exhibitions coming up!