The Monet Exhibit

When we were in Wellington we went to a museum called Te Papa. I do not know what that means but it is something in Maori. Te Papa is the only museum in the world to have a colossal squid on display and most of all one that was caught alive! Yes we did go to see that when we were there but that's not what I'm supposed to be writing about! I'm writing about the Monet exhibit! When we visited we got the wonderful experience of going to see Monet and the Impressionists! Impressionist paintings are a certain kind of painting - it's painted to really only look best from a farther distance, you would be surprised! When we were looking at them there was a line of tape on the floor so we knew where we could stand to look back from and on the wall next to some of the paintings (most of them) it said a little caption of about who painted it and when it was painted or finished! We had to wait in the beginning in a very, very long line, yet it was worth it because all the paintings from the group of about 7-10 impressionists were just truly amazing! Once we made it into the room with all the paintings we one by one got through all of the paintings while remembering our favourites out of them all! When we finally finished looking through them which took about an hr. and a half, Mom and Dad asked which ones were our favorites and we went around showing about 1-6 each! Almost all of them were by Monet except for one that I chose!

I think all of us ended up having a really good time in the end!

Sorry we have no photos we took ourselves but I think a lot of you know Monet paintings!

-Elena