Saturday - Are we human or are we dancers?

When we were kids, my sister and I used to watch a French cartoon series whose title can be roughly translated as "Exploring the Human Body".

The main characters (Hemo and Globina) were travelling inside the body and assisting to the amazing processes that keep us alive, the fights against diseases, the way vaccines work and so on...

My sister was even collecting the books: the first one came with a transparent shell of a human body and at each release you were getting one more organ/body part. Kind of creepy, but great educational fun!

The CORPUS is Leiden seems to offer a very similar experience, albeit in 5D and on a massive scale (it's 35 meters tall).

As they say on their flyer "you enter at the knee and get out in the brain" and in between you see and explore, using all your senses, the organs and vital functions of the amazing human body.

http://www.corpusexperience.nl/nl/

Friday - Rotterdam: Centre for Contemporary Art

As mentioned it in yesterday's post, the Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art is a cool institution if you are interested in out-of-the-ordinary and unusual art.

We have been there on several occasions during the Museum Night and always saw something new, bizarre or thought provoking (or all these things together).

Not for the faint hearted, people with little fantasy or those who think "Oh, my 3 years old could have made this one".

Remember, all art has been contemporary.

http://www.wdw.nl/

Thursday - Haters gonna hate

This fantastic de-motivational poster ornates the side of  Witte de With's Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.

Wednesday - Rijksmuseum Library's Reading Room

I haven't had the chance to visit the renovated Rijksmuseum yet, however I was browsing Pinterest yesterday evening and found out that it also has a vaste research library with a splendid reading room.

Like with all the libraries the only problem could be that the more you read, the more you would like to read...

http://library.rijksmuseum.nl/rrl/search.pl?lang=nl

Copyrighted as mentioned on the picture.

Tuesday - Finding NEMO: Science Museum at Schiphol



The latest addition to the many things you can do while you wait for your flight in Schiphol: visit a sample of NEMO science museum in the green waiting area at the beginning of Terminal B.

 

Amusing experiments, interesting attractions and optical illusions that kids and grown-ups (see below) will love.

 

http://www.e-nemo.nl/en/?id=1&s=1121&PHPSESSID=1916adaf98cfa0b3e655b1e022054d04

Monday - Shell's rope walker

If you pass by the Shell HQ in The Hague you may notice this very peculiar statue going back and forth on a rope.

It's called De Draailoper and it is a creation of an artist called Henk Visch.

Sunday - Shakespeare festival

A brand new creation from those amazing people of STET: the first The Hague's Shakespeare Festival, with performers from the UK, USA an NL presenting their version of the Bard's well known classics but also lesser known pieces.

It starts today and lasts approximately 2 weeks. Several venues.

http://thsf.nl/