Mona from near the jetty
Today was fine all day, in fact there was barely a cloud in the sky. We drove to Battery Point and parked the car for the day. We took a ferry to Mona, a museum for old and new art. The ferry ride was nice, but was bitterly cold once the boat started moving. I was interested to go past the Aurora Australis, after all, you don’t get to see an Antarctic ship every day.
Mona was fabulous. On the way into the building we were supplied with iPods that held all the information about the artworks that would otherwise be on a plaque next to the artwork. The iPod was easy to use, it provided you with options for the closest artworks to click on, and it was nice to be able to read about a piece without crowding it so you could read a small caption. And, of course, the kids loved playing with them!
There were some interactive pieces at Mona which were a lot of fun, but Nathan’s favourites were pieces of art that related to the human body. I don’t think I had a favourite, but I have a few photos at the end of some that we particularly liked. There are some photos of a sort of scanner which Nathan had to show Toby after Toby woke from his nap on my back. Other interactive ones we liked were hanging baskets of plants that made noises when you touched the leaves, and an old typewriter that turned your words into little mobile bugs on the sheet of paper that you could sort of get the typewriter to gobble when you turn the paper roller.
We caught the ferry back to the city and wandered around the Battery Point area for a couple of hours. We found a little playground, a fountain, streets that look quite English, a nice bakery and an ice-cream place (the kids and I indulged in sharing a scoop of Tasmanian ice-cream). We had some very nice fish and chips for dinner before heading back to the cabin.
Concrete mixer
A tribute to Madonna, a bunch of people singing Madonna songs
One of Nathan’s favourites, red liquid being pumped through tubes attached to a white dress.
Nathan working the iPod
A scanner you had to press yourself to for getting scanned
Nathan’s scanner image
An image of Nathan and me
Toby with iPod
Words (news related) created in water droplets
Nathan watching scenes from Martin Place in Sydney
Sandstone walls and glass lift at the end
The boat to and from Mona
Hi ho Silver!
Running back to the horse…both kids loved it
