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| - I grew up going to this museum, and the expansion is killer. Part underground, four-levels, an expanded fashion gallery and finally a gallery just for photography!
it's beautiful and it feels nice to be in there...before you realize it, you've been wandering around for three hours.
do not miss the suspended charred wood installation piece on the third level of the expansion, it is really cool. i heard some snot-nosed kid who's parents weren't parenting ran through the suspended pieces, tangling them up and now it has a velvet rope around it...too bad.
*** update
i just went there to see the Rembrandt exhibit and indeed, there is a rope around the piece - boo.
i also wanted to be sure to note the installation piece that is a DO NOT MISS- It's in the northwest corner of the third level. an entire room made to be near pitch-black, with every wall (including floor and ceilings) mirrored but with a brown tint- so you can see a faint outline of yourself... but you are not the star of the show. suspended from the ceiling are dozens of strings with tiny LED lights all the way down that slowly fade in and out as all blue, then all green and then all red and then a rainbow. with all the mirrors and the sound-proof room, the ultimate effect is that you literally feel like you are floating in space -- it was unlike anything i had ever felt before and it literally took my breath away.
--side note-- before i left i couldn't resist and came back to the room for another experience, except this time i thought i knew what it was all about and just rushed in without taking my time to get my bearings and get oriented. i nearly had a panic attack after running into a wall. a totally different experience than the first, which further raises my respect for this piece
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