７月の休日
先週土曜日、万博跡地に在る、国立民族学博物館に足を運んだ。「現代アボリジニ・アートの世界」と題した企画展が開催されており、その鑑賞が目的であったが、博物館はとんでもなく広く、入り口近くから順に回ると優に４・5時間は要する。あまりに広すぎて、アボリジニ・アートの展示を見落としてしまい、昼食を取って再度入りなおし、やっと鑑賞できた。
それは良いのだが、民族博物館の入場料は、小生はシニア割引きで350円、超割安という感じ。ところが入場者は疎ら。なんでかな・・交通弁の問題かな・・等と思っていたが、会場を後にして分かった。何と、車の駐車料金が1500円（時間、300円）。広大な駐車場に車は数台しか無く、ここは自動車教習場なのかと見間違うほどであった。
今週は、中ノ島の国立国際美術館で「始皇帝と大兵馬俑」が開催されており、早々に足を運んだ。元々、兵馬俑には関心があり、中国はどうでもいいが兵馬俑だけは見たいと思っていたので、大感激。この大兵馬俑展は10月2日まで開催されている様です。一見の価値あり、お勧めします。
祭日の18日、娘がシルク・ドゥ・ソレイユの大阪公演に誘ってくれたので、喜び勇んで駆けつけた。何と、席がＦブロックの１列1番。最前列の正面30度くらいの特等席であった。
シルク・ドゥ・ソレイユは今年３回目であったが、人間って本当にすごい動物だ、何でも出来るんだ・・、と改めて思わされた。
Last Saturday, I visited the National Museum of Ethnology at the site of the World Expo. The purpose of the museum was to see the exhibition entitled “The World of Contemporary Aboriginal Art”, but the museum was so large that it took me about four or five hours to go around from the entrance to the museum. I missed the Aboriginal art exhibition because it was too large, so I had lunch and re-entered the museum.
That’s good, but the admission fee to the ethnic museum is 350 yen for me with a senior citizen discount, and it’s very cheap. However, it was sparsely attended. I wondered why…maybe it was a traffic valve issue…etc…but after leaving the venue, I found out. The parking fee for a car is 1,500 yen (300 yen an hour). There were only a few cars in the vast parking lot, so it was hard to believe that this was a driving school.
This week, “The First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors” was being held at the National Museum of Art, Nakanoshima, and I went there early. Originally, I was interested in the terracotta army, I don’t care about China, but I wanted to see only the terracotta army, so I was very excited. This Terracotta Warriors and Horses exhibition seems to be open until October 2. Worth a look, I highly recommend it.
On the 18th, the national holiday, my daughter invited me to the Osaka performance of Cirque du Soleil, so I ran to it with great joy. It was the first seat in the first row of F block. I had a special seat in the front of the front row, about 30 degrees in front.
It was the third Cirque du Soleil this year, and it made me think again that human beings are really amazing animals and can do anything.
