Thursday, October 21, 2010

National Gallery of Australia

The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra has just undergone a major face lift with no less than 11 new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Galleries as well as a new shop and cafe. We liked the old gallery but the new one is even better!

It's only a few minutes drive from our place and so I took the kids there while Amy enjoyed a trip to Coles supermarket!

The new galleries are great. We particularly liked the dingos in the North Queensland gallery.


The gallery also owns a version of Monet's Waterlillies (Nymphéas) click here if you don't know what it looks like. We looked at it for quite a few minutes until Audrey turned to me and said, 'There's no frogs', which I thought was a pretty decent observation.

We discussed that perhaps Monet wasn't all he is cracked up to be as an artist. It's tricky drawing the back legs of frogs, and perhaps he just didn't fancy it.

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