the russian museums suck.
i visted the state history museum and the pushkin museums today. both are supposed to be world class institutions. i even queued up with 40 minutes in the hot sun (moscow btw is realluy bloody hot) just to get into the museum to buy the tickets for the pushkin. they were both just so boring and disappointing; it was more of a chore than a pleasure touring them both.
sigh. so disappointed. i really dunno whether should i visit the tetrakov museum. it's supposed to b another world class art museum too. i'm just not too sure abt the quality of the museums now. maybe it's just because i've already got very high standards from all the good museums i've visited before.
the pushkin has got lots of plaster casts of sculpture masterpieces, and lots of them r greco-roman in origin or in style. i've noticed how gay all of them look. some of them were outright gay glorified gay porn (or wad i can already consider gay porn). n a number of them even have paedophilic themes. hmm... i wonder y none of the guys r portrayed with an erection...
today's tour of moscow has been rather disappointing generally. besides the museum, we had visited lenin. n he really looked bad. he looks as if he's rotting. mao tze tung n ho chi minh both look better than him. also, despite doubling our touring ration of water to 1 litre per person, we still ran out of water real fast and became dehydrated again. it's really just so hot n dry here.
one good thing that happened today is that we r done with souvenier shopping. we've got out 1. matroushka doll, 2. CCCP (USSR) t shirt, 3. fridge maget and 4. chinese tourist book (for my parents). i'm still comtemplating whether to get some soviet posters or not though.
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