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Ego Death at the Brunel Museum: A reflective visit to London’s Thames Tunnel museum

Sometimes, humanity’s greatest achievements are pretty gross. My partner and I were looking for a fun way to spend a rainy afternoon, and landed on the Brunel Museum—a small, out-of-the-way museum that’s south of the river in Rotherhithe. It’s focus is engineering/architecture, which I will admit isn’t my forte; it’s much easier for me to get excited about a piece of art then a piece … Continue reading Ego Death at the Brunel Museum: A reflective visit to London’s Thames Tunnel museum

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The Best Two-For-One Museum Ticket in Paris: L’Orangerie and Musée D’Orsay

While touring the halls of Sainte-Chappelle, I made some friends who asked me what I was planning on doing during my trip. That’s the first time I’d heard of the Musée de l’Orangerie. I love Monet’s water lillies paintings; when I was a kid, I took charcoal classes at the local bookstore, and learned how Money would paint the same scene, again and again, at … Continue reading The Best Two-For-One Museum Ticket in Paris: L’Orangerie and Musée D’Orsay

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