Museum Day

Hi all...
Today we all visited two very interesting museums here in the heart of Vienna. One was called the Museum Moderner Kunst and that had very unusual exhibits and the theme on one floor was "Mind Expansion." Many of them were made in the 1960's and 1970's and apparently Vienna was a center for exploring artistic performance modes at that time. The exhibits really made you look at subjects in a unique way. Later we all trooped over to the Kunsthistorisches Museum and that featured the history of Vienna from the early days of the Romans. The first floor housed many artifacts from as early as 1400 AD and consisted of jewelry, cookware, coins, elaborate bath tubs, sculptures and much, much more that I didnt have time to explore! There were also Flemish Baroque paintings that covered a whole wall each! I also saw the jewels of the royal Hapsburg family and even clothing of the famous women. On the top floor there was the Canadian Maple Leaf Gold coin valued at 2 million Euros!! It was at least 15 inches in diameter. The whole exhibit traced the history of coinage to the earliest people migrating and trading. There was also a room with very old and rare violins.