Museums

The last week has been extremely busy! I had a final in my International Strategic Management class and it went very well. I am incredibly happy to have that class over with since it was so late in the evening on Monday and Wednesday.

During the week I went to quite a few museums.Last Tuesday I went to the CosmoCaixa science museum. We have to write up a marketing proposal for any cultural attraction so we figured it'd be a good idea to pick one in Barcelona and check it out. It's pretty funny, the Spaniards really talk up this museum, but honestly wasn't that great. They had a pretty cool Dinosaurs and evolution section, a physics area, a sea tank with cat fish and turtles, and lastly they have a section for how the human brain works.

Like I said the museum was ok. They had english write ups for each station so were able to get the whole feel for the museum. There just wasn't that many interactive learning experiences like there is at the science museum in Arizona. There were so many little kids on here too; I felt the museum could have done a lot better job creating hands on learning games.

The next museum I went to was for my Past and Present class. I basically just have to give a report on a museum, so I ended up choosing the Design museum. A little gay sounding at first, however I was really interested in checking out the 3d printed objects and their lab where the 3d architecture and printing occurs. Needless to say, the exhibit was really cool and I was able to watch how these things are made and designed. Being American and "clueless" can get you into a lot of places because Spaniards just think we don't know any better. So I wondered past the ropes and into their lab and at one point was behind a guy designing an action figure that will be printed in 3D. He spoke a little english and obviously said I wasn't supposed to be back here, but I told him how interesting I thought it was and he actually walked me through the basic process, which was awesome!

The other exhibits there were kind of lame, one was a room that had a bunch of fashion tips on what to wear in the 1970s or some crap. The next one was somewhat interesting, just because the idea behind it was so out there. It was a save the environment exhibition. I'll sum it up with one idea that was in the exhibit: Basically, this person wanted to put cows onto a pasteurized ship and they will travel around our earth in the sky freeing our lands from them...Ridiculous

The next place we went was CaixaForum for my class Marketing Cultural Heritage. It had pretty dull exhibitions. One was an art museum filled with famous communists and kind of told a story about the history of communism. The other exhibition was really interesting though. It was a combination of documentary interviews turned into movies. It was crazy to see the production from square 1. They tied in every interview into the movie in someway. It really made you think and I liked that -- it was a big change of pace from the communist art exhibition.

As for the weekend, we enjoyed a lot of sunny days at the beach and a significant amount of ping pong. Having a beautiful park and an endless amount of tables less than 10 minutes away is incredibly nice. You all would be proud of how often I go out and do things here!