The National Art Gallery from the boulevard
La Galer铆a de Arte Nacional desde el bulevar
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii, what's up? Do you often go to museums and art galleries? How often do you go out with friends on plans you made up while you were chit chatting?
This past Thursday after I attended at a meeting in my university, I met up with my friends that I had a while without seeing, one of them wanted to visit the Museum of Natural Science in Bellas Artes, Caracas, and invited me and other friends to go with him. Let me tell you how it went. 馃憞馃憞馃憞馃憞馃憞
From the university we took the subway till Bellas Artes, part of the center of the city, there we got out of the subway station and for our surprise it was heavy raining! The streets were flooding and seemed that the water was going to enter to the station. As it was raining so much we couldn't get to the Museums Plaza and so go to the Science Museum, we then decided to go to the art gallery in front of us as any other interesting place was far from us.
Hoooola, 驴qu茅 m谩s? 驴Van a menudo a museos y galer铆as de arte? 驴Suelen salir con sus amigos por planes que se inventaron mientras charlaban?
Este jueves pasado, despu茅s de asistir a una reuni贸n en mi universidad, me encontr茅 con mis amigos que ten铆a tiempo que no los ve铆a, uno de ellos quer铆a visitar el Museo de Ciencias Naturales en Bellas Artes, Caracas, y me invit贸 a m铆 y a otros amigos a ir con 茅l. D茅jenme les cuento como nos fue. 馃憞馃憞馃憞馃憞馃憞
Desde la universidad tomamos el metro hasta Bellas Artes, parte del centro de la ciudad, all铆 salimos de la estaci贸n del metro y para nuestra sorpresa 隆un palo de agua! Las calles estaban inundadas y parec铆a que el agua iba a entrar a la estaci贸n. Como llov铆a tanto no pudimos llegar a la Plaza de los Museos y as铆 ir al Museo de Ciencias, entonces decidimos ir a la galer铆a de arte que ten铆amos enfrente ya que cualquier otro lugar interesante estaba lejos de nosotros.
The corridor along the building
El pasillo que bordea el edificio
The entire complex of the gallery has two entrances, both connect to each other through a long corridor aside the exhibition halls and some spaces that surround it, I liked the frames through the corridor
Todo el complejo de la galer铆a tiene dos entradas, ambas se conectan entre s铆 a trav茅s de un largo pasillo a un lado de las salas de exposici贸n y algunos espacios que la rodean, me gustaron los marcos a lo largo del pasillo
Funny garbage cans
Basureros que me dieron risa
Posters in the hall of an expo feria that occurring in the gallery as well
Colgantes en la sala sobre una expo feria que se daba alli en la galer铆a
Roof that covered the main building
Techo que cubr铆a el edificio
Entrance of the exhibition halls and one of my friends
Entrada de la sala de exposici贸n y uno de mis amigos
Once there we had to leave our backpacks and the rest our stuff to be able to visit the place, there were a lot of paintings of historical heroes and things used during the independence war displayed on glass frames. My favorite paintings and art displayed were about other things, though.
Una vez all铆 tuvimos que dejar nuestros bolsos y el resto de nuestras cosas para poder pasar, hab铆a un mont贸n de pinturas de h茅roes hist贸ricos y cosas utilizadas durante la guerra de la independencia expuestas en marcos de cristal. Sin embargo, mis pinturas y obras de arte favoritas eran sobre otras cosas.
As an architect student I couldn麓t help but notice how the spaces were divided, wonder about how the light got in and how it was distributed, among other things. The building was made using two type of modules, a big one followed by a small one with not all walls built to the roof to let the air flow I assume.
Como estudiante de arquitectura no pude evitar fijarme en c贸mo se divid铆an los espacios, preguntarme c贸mo entraba la luz y c贸mo se distribu铆a, entre otras cosas. El edificio se construy贸 utilizando dos tipos de m贸dulos, uno grande seguido de otro peque帽o, sin todas las paredes construidas hasta el tejado para dejar que fluyera el aire creo.
There's something about the stairs that I really did not like, perhaps because you had to climb three steps to the front and then turn left to climb the rest before the break. I feel that the space could be used better so it was more comfortable, also, look at them, they do not invite you to go upstairs.
Hay algo en las escaleras que realmente no me gust贸, quiz谩s porque hab铆a que subir tres escalones hacia el frente y luego girar a la izquierda para subir el resto hasta el descanso. Siento que se podr铆a aprovechar mejor el espacio para que fuera m谩s c贸modo, adem谩s, m铆ralas, no te invitan a subir.
There was a special room were you could interact with some lights but we got there too late, it was already closed. In the second floor there were interesting exhibitions, one regarding light and colors, other about feminism and one about stories of the people that emigrated the country.
Hab铆a una sala especial donde pod铆as interactuar con unas luces pero llegamos demasiado tarde, ya estaba cerrada. En el segundo piso hab铆a exposiciones interesantes, una sobre la luz y los colores, otra sobre feminismo y otra sobre historias de la gente que emigr贸 del pa铆s.
Me listening to the one about the stories. Photo taken by my friend Gabriel
Yo escuchando una de las historias. Foto tomada por mi amigo Gabriel
As we were taken this photo a random girl next to us said: "This generation is lost...", then left lol.
Photo taken by my friend Gabriel
Mientras tom谩bamos esta foto una chica que estaba cerca dijo: "Esta generaci贸n est谩 perdida...", y luego se fue lol
Eye. Photo taken by my friend Anthony
Ojo. Foto tomada por mi amigo Anthony
Photo taken by my friend Anthony
Foto tomada por mi amigo Anthony
The second floor used natural and artificial lighting, natural light coming from those skylights on the roof that I personally did not liked, I felt that with other design they could have brought more light to the inside and so use less electricity.
As it stopped raining we went to the Museum Plaza to try visit the museum we originally we wanted to go to, we arrived there at 3:54pm and it was closed, a sign there said they close at 4 so impossible to see the whole museum in 6 minutes.
El segundo piso utilizaba iluminaci贸n natural y artificial, la natural proven铆a de esos tragaluces en el techo que personalmente no me gustaron, sent铆 que con otro dise帽o podr铆an haber llevado m谩s luz al interior y as铆 utilizar menos electricidad.
Como dej贸 de llover nos fuimos a la Plaza de los Museos a intentar visitar el museo al que originalmente quer铆amos ir, llegamos all铆 a las 3:54pm y estaba cerrado, un cartel all铆 dec铆a que cerraban a las 4:00pm as铆 que imposible ver todo el museo en 6 minutos.
The Museums Plaza flooded because of the heavy rain
La Plaza de los Museos inundada por el palo de agua
Museum of Natural Science from the plaza
El Museo de Ciencias Naturales desde la plaza
Art Museum from the plaza
El Museo de Arte desde la plaza
As we couldn't visit any of these museums we went to the Sambil la Candelaria mall that it was a couple streets away from where we were. On the way there we found a beautiful kitten apparently called "Feo", ugly in spanish; he was so cute, we were even offered to take him with us as he didn麓t want to separate from us, none of us could take him so we left him where we found him.
Como no pudimos visitar ninguno de estos museos nos fuimos al centro comercial Sambil la Candelaria que estaba a un par de calles de donde est谩bamos. Por el camino nos encontramos con un precioso gatito que al parecer se llamaba "Feo"; era muy cuchi, que incluso nos ofrecieron llev谩rnoslo con nosotros ya que no quer铆a separarse de nosotros, ninguno pod铆a llev谩rselo as铆 que lo dejamos donde lo encontramos.
Us with the kitten. Photo taken by my friend Jose's phone
Nosotros con el gatito. Foto tomada por el tel茅fono de mi amigo Jos茅
Once in the mall, as we hadn't had lunch we were looking for something to eat, I've been there before and knew this place that sold ice cream, after walking basically the whole building as i was guiding and got lost, we finally found the place and ate ice cream there.
Una vez en el centro comercial, como no hab铆amos almorzado buscamos algo para comer, yo ya hab铆a venido antes y conoc铆a un lugar que vend铆a helados, despu茅s de caminar b谩sicamente todo el edificio, ya que los estaba guiando y me perd铆, finalmente encontramos el lugar y comimos helado all铆.
Me and my friends with ice cream. Photo taken by my friend Gabriel's phone
Mis amigos y yo con helado. Foto tomada por el tel茅fono de mi amigo Gabriel
After that, everybody went home and that was my day with friends! I absolutely recommend to go visit places with friends and have something sweet after. Thank you for reading the post till the end, and let me know in the comments section if there's any plan like this that you would recommend me to do.
Ya luego todo el mundo se fue a casa y ese fue mi d铆a con mis amigos! Recomiendo absolutamente ir a visitar sitios con amigos y tomar algo dulce despu茅s. Gracias por leer el post hasta el final, d茅jenme saber en los comentarios si hay alg煤n plan como este que me recomendar铆as hacer.
Byeeeeeeeee.
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All photos were taken by me unless advised the contrary. Translation from Spanish to English made with the help of DeepL. Cover picture made with the help of Canva.
Todas las fotos fueron tomadas por m铆 a menos que se indique lo contrario. Traducci贸n del espa帽ol al ingl茅s realizada con la ayuda de DeepL. Imagen de portada realizada con la ayuda de Canva.