Monday, September 22, 2008

Back to the City

Friday we went to two museums on university’s campus: Museo de América and Museo de Traje. The Museo de América was very interesting. We both realized how much land the Spaniards had explored and brought things back from during the 1400s and after. There were hats, weapons, idols, writings, artwork, tools, and animals from the Philippines, the coast of Africa, Madagascar, Canada, the interior of the United States, Alaska, the Polynesian islands, along with artifacts from the places we consider Hispanic: Mexico, Central, and South America. The Museo de Traje was not as complete as Amy had hoped, but we did both enjoy it. We thought there would be more bullfighting outfits and the like. It did go through the history of clothing in Europe using real clothing from the time. One exhibit showed traditional clothing from different regions of Spain. It was interesting to see the evolution of styles. Those sweaters that are three-quarters sleeves and stop halfway down the torso? Those came into style during the 1500s or so. See, things do come back in style!

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