Our flight was this evening, so we had a good amount of time to keep exploring. Dan wanted to check out the Neue Pinakothek (Modern Art Museum - modern as in 18th & 19th century, not solid white canvases), so we did.
The rainbow colored U-bahn station.
Crocuses!
They are one of the first flowers of spring, also it's where saffron comes from.
Now you know.
There may have been a hangry incident after we arrived at the closest U-bahn stop. We found two food places and Dan made me leave both. I was not happy. We finally found a pastry shop and I may have acquired many pastries.
At the Neue Pinakothek:
Sunflowers (Third Version) - Vincent Van Gogh
Take that Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum and your no photos policy.
View of Arles - Vincent Van Gogh
Neptune's Horses - Walter Crane
Monet Painting on his Studio -Édouard Manet
This is great. It's a Manet of Monet!
Wandering around some more:
We came across this square that had two museums and an arch....passthrough...thingie. Each structure had one of the classical types of columns. These photos are for Dan.
The Glyptoteck (sculpture museum) has Ionic columns.
This is the arch passthrough thingie. It has Doric columns.
We found a geocache on the other side of the passthrough thingie.
The Antikensammlungen Museum (neoclassical collection) has Corinthian columns.
We went to find another geocache that was in the Hofgarten (park behind the Residenz).
Dan's escalator GQ pose.
The Residenz is large and complicated. Each generation of Wittelsbachs added onto it.
It has something like 10 courtyards and other interesting facts can be found here.
We had just enough time to tour the Residenz Museum which is only a small portion of the total complex.
It started off with some derpy looking busts.
One has a lion on its head and the other has an elephant.
The courtyard had a massive multipart wall fountain made almost entirely out of shells.
On the right is a fountain that pours out of a woman's nipples. There was another fountain like this on the other side.
This is the Antiquarium. It was built in the mid 1500's for Duke Albert V's collection.
It is the largest Renaissance style hall north of the Alps.
Inlaid marble. I thought it was neat.
Dan said it reminded him of the Head Museum from Futurama.
An optical illusion ceiling.
They had many tapestries. Anyone out there know much about tapestries? I want to know why they always seem so beige. Obviously they had rich non-fading colors or the reds, blues, and greens would be sad. I have seen a few tapestries since we've been in Europe and I have to say they are all predominantly beige. Why is that?
An upright piano (possibly harpsichord) and a white but decorated hallway.
This is a heater. A highly decorated heater. It has a two finned mermaid.
And a very busty dog woman thing.
The portrait gallery had these glorious chandeliers.
What is hard to see in this photo are the blue fu-dog candelabras.
I asked Dan why we didn't own these.
This may also be my token "I was on this trip" photo.
This wraps up our trip to Munich. We caught the next U-bahn out to the airport and headed home.
