Family Day at the Art Museum

After a stormy night, it was a cool and wet morning in Freiburg. A and I drove across the border into Switzerland, to our favourite art museum, to see an exhibition of Scandinavian and Canadian art from 1880 to 1930.

As always, the exhibition was well curated, and presented a great mix of pictures by famous artists like Edward Munch, lesser-known ones, like the Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kalela, and names that were as yet unknown to us, like Anna Boberg, Helmi Biese, or Lawren S. Harris.

Today, the museum had a  „Family Day“, inviting children and young adults for free, and offering special tours and events for them. The event was really popular, and we were happy to have gone early before it became too crowded. But it was lovely to see so many children and young people in the museum; looking closely at the pictures and discussing them, or drawing their own ones. 

The main blip shows a budding artist in front of a picture by the Canadian artist Emily Carr. The extra collage combines some of my personal favourites.  

By now, I am back home with P and the cats, after a (thankfully) uneventful train journey.