Friday, May 27, 2011

Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial

Last week or so we took a drive to Elvas, another town nearby and very close to the border with Spain. There is a massive Roman aqueduct that you drive through to get to the town and a shiny new contemporary art museum, The Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas (MACE). It is housed in what used to be a hospital, so there are several beautiful examples of traditional azulejos that depict scenes of health care, and also sad donkeys that must pull the sick people to the hospital.In the lower level they had this interactive piece where you balance and walk on a thin piece of wood holding another.

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