Masters of pre-Columbian art (Brussels, 6-10-2006)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

Actually four exhibits for the price of one ;-)

Main exhibit:
pre-Columbian art collection of Dora and Paul Janssen
They managed to collect many many extremely fine pieces of meso-American and also South-American (mostly Colombian gold) art. Almost every piece is worth a close and long look! So many exciting objects! So much detail!
And there's some more happy news! There was a chance the collection would move to another country because of legal/money problems but this has been solved. The 350 objects can stay in the museum! Yippee! -makes little dance-

Smaller exhibits:
- Indians in Brussels, world exhibition of 1935
Funny exhibit of a visuals from 1935, clothes worn by the Indians who where at the exhibit and more recent European Indian kitsch

- Traditional clothes from Mexico
Colourful and beautiful accompanied by Mariachi tunes

- Wickerwork from the new world
Very pretty and interesting things and it smells great too ;-)

These four exhibits are still running until the 29th of march next year so every-one has time enough to visit them. And as an extra you can always visit the permanent collection too ;-)

Another tip: the museum has a restaurant which is quite expensive but the chocolate cake (6 euro's!) is brilliant so if you have some money to spare you should try it (at least once in your life).