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trip to Louisiana, lost hotel reservation, and chinese buffet

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In September 2007, I moved to Utrecht for three months to do a work placement as part of my MSc, vowing to make the most of the opportunity to be paid in pounds whilst living in Euros. Mission Accomplished! I've been to more museums in these three months than in the two and a half years before that, gone on a weekend to Copenhagen and a day trip to Köln, made some wonderful friends, and drunk a LOT of coffee, and quite a bit of beer. Enjoy the Blog!

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trip to Louisiana, lost hotel reservation, and chinese buffet

November 17, 2007

At the Louisiana

On the Saturday, Allie and I took our trip to the Louisiana museum. We left about lunchtime, and it was roughly an hour's journey to Humlebaek on a very comfortable s-tog train. You can get a combined train and museum ticket in the stations.

Louisiana is out on the coast, a bit further up than Copenhagen. it was very easy to find form the station, which was a bit of a relief as we were both kind of sleepy after the late night bus the night before. From the front, it looked like a normal sized old house converted to a museum. inside, it became apparent that it was huge. I'm not going to go into masses of detail about the exhibition or the facilities - I'll do you a review - but it was totally amazing. Lunch was really good, and as it turned out, I was really glad we ate there because dinner got a bit delayed.

Louisiana art museum

My absolute favourite was the Avedon retrospective, which had some amazing photo portraits in it, especially one of a tired, harrassed looking Marilyn Munroe, who had apparently given up posing for him for the day and didn't mind him keeping working. There was a Lucien Freud exhibition, which I sort of glossed over because he really isn't my sort of thing at all, some more general permanent collections of modern and contemporary art, a gorgeous collection of Islamic book illustrations, and the sculpture collection outide, which I think I enjoyed most of all. There was also the obligatory couple kissing in front of everything you were trying to look at including the shop. I believe this is actually a European directive, that they have to be there.

We had intended to go out to dinner, but by the time we got back to the university and then out to the airport hotel, it was getting really late. The hotel had lost the reservation, and we went to dinner at the Chinese Buffet across the road just as it was getting ready to close. Dinner was nice, and they didn't make us feel hurried. By the time we got back, the hotel reception guy had managed to find us a room and we were very grateful to get there.

hotel review at http://www.travbuddy.com/Quality-Airport-Dan-Hotel-Copenhagen-v136928

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At the Louisiana

Louisiana art museum

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Louisiana Museum

Louisiana is a museum of modern and contemporary art on the coast near Copenhagen, with a sculpture garden, a restaurant, and good views of Sweden across the sound. The permanent collection is impressive, with a lot of Danish Artists that I wasn't familiar with, a collection og giaccometti works in a huge room with a large window onto the lake, and some large Henry Moores in the grounds. When I went, the temporary exhibitions included a Richard Avedon retrospective, a Lucien Freud retrospective, and a display of late medieaval Islamic miniatures. That should give you an idea of the breadth! The art is well curated, interesting, and I really, really enjoyed my trip.

The café is reasonably priced. The museum is large, well lit, wheelchair accessible (although the gardens would not be) and nicely laid out, if slightly labyrinthine. The shop is well stocked and interesting. Nicely, there is a special wing for children with activities and explanations. The museum is a very do-able and well sign posted walk from the station.

Allow at least half a day because of transport times, but this museum is well worth a trip.