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April 29, 2008
Querétaro: Part Two
Shawn reads The News at the Museo de Arte, Querétaro
Today we woke up early to make use of the continental breakfast at the hotel. It was, as I suspected, nothing to write home about. In fact, it was not anything worth writing about in the blog, apart from the fact that it forced us to get up early, and that let us get a pretty early start on the day.
Before noon, we got the the Museo de Arte de Querétaro, which normally charges MXN $30 per person for admission, but it is free every Tuesday. We paid the additional MXN $15 to be permitted to take photos in the courtyard.
Porticos, Museo de Arte, Querétaro
They currently have an exhibit of work by contemporary Mexican painter, Carlos García de la Nuez there, and we both really enjoyed it. He uses mixed media to cover huge (10' x 10'?) canvases, but unfortunately, we were not allowed to take photos of those works.
I can show you some of the details of the architecture though.
Inside the Museo de Arte, Querétaro
All the faces of lining the courtyard are different; they do not repeat.
Inside the Museo de Arte, Querétaro
However, they all terminate at the bottom in this single-leg and foot ornamentation.
Inside the Museo de Arte, Querétaro
We then moved on to the Museo Regional de Querétaro. The admission there is normally MXN $30, but it was free today because it was Tuesday. Again, we paid the few pesos extra to be allowed to take photographs inside the museum.
Hallway, Museo Regional de Querétaro
I wanted to go there because they supposedly have the table on which the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was signed. Unfortunately, we were not able to find it anywhere in the museum, and it looked like a huge section had been closed off. We did find the desk where the orders to execute Emperor Maximilian were signed.
Poor Max Was Bound to Die
Tonight, we are hoping to go out to either Bangkok Mex Thai, or Chino Lung Xing (Blvd. Bernardo Quintana 110). The former only has photographs of the food items online, no real menu. If it turns out they do not offer any vegetarian food, we will try to get to Lung Xing, because we've read online that they have vegetable dishes with tofu. I'm not holding my breath in either case.
Posted by crispy at April 29, 2008 02:38 PM
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In the newspaper the other day they wrote about this series of severed left feet washing upshore along the Puget sound, horrifying.
Posted by: Akira at April 30, 2008 11:33 AM
Lung Xing - wow, that sounds so weird to me. I think I'm going to have to use that as my alias, or maybe a contender for my nom de plume.
[crispy says: Go right ahead! You won't face a lawsuit from the restaurant folks; it seems they're no longer in business.]
Posted by: b at May 1, 2008 08:08 PM