Visiting the 911 Memorial Museum located at the site of the former World Trade Center, now also known as Ground Zero. Entrance to the museum is trough the pavilion designed by Snøhetta. No visitor pass is needed, tickets can be bought at the pavilion. Expect some queuing on busy days. The 911 Memorial Museum serves as the country’s principal institution concerned with exploring the implications of the events of 9/11, documenting the impact of those events and exploring 9/11’s continuing significance. The 911 memorial, waterfall and reflecting pool set within the footprints of the towers. The 911 Memorial is located at the site of the former World Trade Center complex and occupies approximately half of the 16-acre site. The Memorial features two enormous waterfalls and reflecting pools, each about an acre in size, set within the footprints of the original Twin Towers. The Memorial plaza is one of the most eco-friendly plazas ever constructed. More than 400 trees surround the reflecting pools. Its design conveys a spirit of hope and renewal, and creates a contemplative space separate from the usual sights and sounds of a bustling metropolis. The 911 Memorial Museum Entry Pavilion designed by Snøhetta. But your ticket at the booth and then […]

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Today a few hours is spent at the Whitney museum New York located in Manhattan. Since this is freezing outside in New York having some quiet, relaxing and warm time in the museum is perfect. This is what the Whitney Museum New York tells about themselves. As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. The Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American art, and its collection—arguably the finest holding of twentieth-century American art in the world—is the Museum’s key resource. The Museum’s signature exhibition, the Biennial, is the country’s leading survey of the most recent developments in American art. About the Whitney. Ticket bought, glows off and ready to experience some art. The building is designed by architect Renzo Piano.   On this floor works of Frank Stella is displayed. Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts,[1] to parents of Italian descent. His father was a gynecologist, and his mother was an artistically inclined housewife who attended fashion school and later took up landscape painting.[2] After attending high school at Phillips Academy in […]

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The legion of Honor San Francisco is a fine arts museum located in Lincoln Park, northwest of San Francisco with views over the Golden Gate bridge. The collection at the museum is spanning over 6000 years and also special exhibitions are featured. Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking was the special exhibit during my visit. From its beginnings in Paris in 1775, Breguet advanced great technical developments such as the self-winding watch, the first wristwatch, the repeating mechanism, and, most notably, the tourbillon—a revolutionary movement that neutralizes the negative effects of gravity on pocket watches. Breguet played a key role in the history of watchmaking, elevating the craft to its zenith by producing finely made watches that were a pleasure to handle and use.The company’s reputation for ingenuity, as well as the reliability and portability of its watches, led to Breguet’s watches being considered objects of great prestige, worn by the powerful and elite in Europe, including Napoleon Bonaparte, Tsar Alexander I, and Queen Victoria. The most famous Breguet timepiece linked to a European monarch is the world-renowned “Marie-Antoinette” pocket watch. This extraordinary piece took 44 years to make and was the most complicated watch of its time. During the […]

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Today I am visiting the Giraffe center located in Nairobi about 20 minutes drive from Westlands where I am staying, depending on traffic. Nairobi traffic can be really bad and this 20 minutes can easily be 3 hours if you do not go at the correct time to avoid rush hour. Now I will finally see and meet real animals her in Africa. After the visit to Giraffe Center I will go and see the Nairobi National Museum to learn more about the history of Kenya.   All over Nairobi there is small shops selling you a wide range of goods. This is a more high class shop with walls and a roof. Nairobi Kenya steet view. Local ad. The Norwegian foreign department ranks traffic as the number one safety issue in Nairobi Kenya and I can understand why. I always have a driver or drive with a local. Traffic rules are considered as guidelines and do not need to be followed. Traffic is bad and the condition of the roads not any better. Visiting Karen Blixen Giraffe Centre and feeding the giraffes. So fun to be close to this animals. Beautiful animals at Karen Giraffe center Nairobi Kenya . […]

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