Our next museum was the Budapest Art Museum in the City Park. This is a huge museum,and we spent nearly the whole day there. There was a special exhibit about Pre-Incan cultures in Peru, with marvellous artifacts. And even the rest of the museum was spectacular - the permanent collection - another special exhibit of engravings - and the building itself. Click here for a picture of Durer's engraving "St. Jerome in his Study". The reproduction, of course, doesn't do it justice.
Another find at another museum was other work by Gustave Klimt. We're familiar with his Art Deco paintings of women, stylized, with lots of gold paint. Imagine our surprise at finding Study of a Blind Man. What a gorgeous portrait this is!
Our transfer to Vienna was a 3-hour train ride. Our apartment, again, is wonderful - right in the middle of the St. Stephen's area - the heart of Old Town. The building was built in 1902, and had been recently renovated, with very contemporary interiors to the apartments. The lobby, marble circular stairway, and Art Deco elevator remained as charming as ever. Our apartment even has a computer and internet hookup. We had a fantastic wiener schnitzel for dinner - our best yet.
Although we'd been assured before we left that our ATM card would work, it did not in Prague or Budapest. We managed to get buy, but it was very frustrating. It was quite a relif when it DID work in Vienna. We've been having words and lots of phone calls with our bank since we got home trying to find out what happened. So far, they've not been able to trace the problem.
Photo today is of the staircase and elevator at Riemergasse 8 in Vienna.
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