The Leopold Museum

The Leopold Museum is one of my favorite museums that we saw in Wien. It is so hard to comprehend that this was one man's collection. The building itself is a work of art. The oddly placed windows that give us a view to another room or several stories down is a nice tie in with the revolutionary art work that is held within the walls. The artwork was top rate and I enjoyed broadening my artistic knowledge about new people. The picture "Death and Life" by Klimt was particularly surprising. I was thinking that death seemed rather sneaky and waiting to pounce but it was really nice to have a group discussion about what we all saw in the picture. I wish we would have done that more. It was good to see Klimt's later work and compare it to the earlier ones in the Belvedere.

The cafe inside the Leopold Museum had the best breakfast! Perfectly cooked bacon, delicious bread, sausages, melange, and so much more...I am coming back just for breakfast if I have to.

The Murderers among us film was very tough to watch, but was very well done. It highlights the way that a city and its people may not want to remember themselves or their actions, but really needs to deal with. This movie really made me think and I went on a walk later that night around simmering. What happens to the people that actually supported vehemently the Nazi movement. So many history lessons and movies seem to act like after all the concentration camps were closed these people and their opinions didn't matter anymore; but they were still there and as this movie showed many of them were not punished. How many people were they able to influence and convert to their way of thinking? Wien today needs to deal with its past and perhaps make some more reparations in ways of museums and official acknowledgements of the part it played in antisemitism.