Showing posts with label Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Museum. Show all posts

Thursday, September 3, 2020

Fitzwilliam Cambridge - Vases

Our first visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum since March and I took the opportunity to take photos of some of the wonderful vases and teapots etc in their collection with the idea of practising some of the soft light techniques that we were demonstrating at our CCC Wednesday Workshop. My method is simpler than some we were shown with the image duplicated and then 50%Gaussian blur faded in screen mode to give a highlight glow. Next a texture in soft light mode and a white or pastel layer also in soft light. The opacity of each layer adjusted plus masks where required.

 
 

Monday, February 18, 2019

Tallin - Estonian Open Air Museum

The Estonian Open Air Museum spans 72 hectares of very attractive forest bordering the sea just outside Tallin city centre. Established in 1957, the museum showcases 68 farmhouses assembled into twelve farmyards from North, South and West Estonia. I visited the 18th-century rural/fishing village, which comes complete with schoolhouse, a fire station, inn, church, etc, together with interesting toilets and inquisitive red squirrels
 
 
 

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Cambridge Watercolours Compared with Today

The Museum of Cambridge has set our camera club the task of photographing some sites in Cambridge that were painted in the 19th/20th Century as they are today. Not an easy task and it certainly shows how much artistic license was used in creating the watercolours - for instance St Johns Chapel appears to have been repositioned in the first painting.
 

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Tallinn 11. KUMU - Art Museum in Kadriorg Park

The designer of the building is Pekka Vapaavuori, a Finnish architect, with construction taking place between 2003 and 2006.
 The exhibitions are presented in chronological order starting from 18th century Estonian art (1st floor) to contemporary art (5th floor). They have permanent collections such as the Villu Jaanisoo' busts from 2006 and visiting Exhibitions including Andres Tolts' Landscape with Still Life inspired by the pop-art of the late 1960s. But mostly I enjoyed the architecture and people's interaction with it.  I spent a full morning in the museum. 

The Estonians are rightly proud of their Museum - here a quote from the brochure
Kumu’s role is to be both an educational and entertainment centre, a booster of art and artistic life, a place for reflection that carries a message of stability, a place that creates and provides experiences, and a creator and interpreter of meanings.

Saturday, December 9, 2017

Tallinn 7. Some Great Museums to Visit in Kalamaja District

On Thursday, after spending time at Linnahall and walking via Patarei Prison (separate post), I visited some of the many Museums in this part of the city.
1. Seaplane Museum. The museum is located in a building originally constructed as a hangar for seaplanes in 1916–1917. The building is remarkable for its unsupported span comprising three concrete shells supported by pillars at the corners and joints. The hall was put out of service during the Soviet era but has been rennovated and opened in 2012. Two images from the web to show the exterior of the buiding before and after repair.
 

2. Estonian Museum of Architecture. The museum is located in Rotermann salt storage building that is over 100 years old and one of the most remarkable examples of industrial architecture in Tallinn. There are four floors of exhibits all interesting both for the exhibits and the architecture itself


3. Energy Discovery Centre. The Energy Discovery Centre is located  in the old Tallinn Power Plant, where using oil shale for energy, electricity for the public network first started in the early 20th century.  The plant had three buildings: the machine house (now the Energy Discovery Centre), the boiler house (now the Tallinn Creative Hub), and the office building (now houses a hostel). The plant operated until 1979. The former turbines and generators are displayed in the main hall of the Discovery Centre alongside the overhead travelling crane produced by AS Ilmarine in 1929, which could lift as much as 25 tons. Some of the original floor from the 1930s has been preserved. The star exhibits of the exhibition are the Tesla coils in the Faraday cage and the Van de Graaff generator, which are used for the daily lightning and static electricity demonstrations.

4.Tallin Creative Club. See above - now used for artists workshops and Exhibitions.


Ann Miles Photography - My Favourite Images of the Past10 years or so