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| A walk through central Vienna and you come across this anti-fascist monument. We're looking at the "The Gates of Violence" which are the gates to a concentration camp, with soldiers and gas masks. |
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| This is a Jewish person forced to scrub off anti-Nazi graffiti |
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| The Albertina Museum steps. The museum is home to an amazing Impressionist collection, both permanent and temporary. |
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| An amazing Renoir |
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| After lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant (hello Italy, why don't we have that kind of food?) D and I stopped by the Natural History Museum. Here I am out in front with my namesake elephant. |
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| The only piece I wanted to see, and really one of the highlights of my entire trip, was this 25,000 4-inch high "sex-symbol", The Venus of Willendorf |
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| We studied her during the first week of Art History. She's faceless and feetless and all breasts. |
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| But she is clearly representational of...(maybe fertility) but proof of the concept of art, even 25,000 years ago. |
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| That evening, D and I went to the House of Music. It was totally amazingly interactive. The Dice game, had two players each roll a die (red or blue) the number that came up had a certain melody. |
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| When all put together, the two parts played together to form its own, "original" waltz. |
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| The same concept up in the Mozart area. Type in your name, and he "composes" a piece based on the letters of your name. |
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| The best part of the museum is getting to "conduct" the Vienna Philharmonic. Here I am conducting.... |
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| The first time I tried, I did such a terrible job, the orchestra stopped, and one of the violinists chewed me out. You can read him saying "but this is too much!" Hahaha!! |
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| Try two was better as I successfully conducted the philharmonic through "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" |
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| The Museum kicked us out at 10PM...and here was dinner!! Good German style food! |
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