Today we finally made it to the Van Gogh museum, which was really cool. He's one of my favorite artists, and while a lot of his major works are out on loan through-out the world (which is how I already have seen quite a number of them) there were still a lot of really amazing painting to see. Unfortunately no photos allowed :(
One of the coolest parts of the museum was on the top floor where it goes into the science of art restoration and the ability to see what Van Gogh paintings look like under a microscope with all the thick layers of paint. It also covered Van Gogh's perspective frame and how Van Gogh used it for several of his paintings. They also had a mockup of what it would be like to feel one of his paintings, which is what I remember the most about the first time I saw one of his paintings in real life (before it'd always been posters and photos). It's almost like a 3D effect.
We had dinner at a fun Greek restaurant and wandered around the rest of the city to finish out the evening before our train ride early Tuesday morning.
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