The journey has been a long and controversial one for the design and location of a National Museum.
Following several years of inaction, doubt and inaction in 2008 the government decided on a location and in 2010 the German architectural firm Kleihiews-Schubert won an international competition and in 2022 the National Museum opened but was ‘derided by critics as resembling a ‘prison’.
However its location is no prison site as it sits on the waters edge and provides a stunning if not overbearing look in amongst the old and the new buildings along a very active waterfront. It is of a ‘durable’ construction according to a very talkative guard who was at pains to describe its features to us.
We start at the top and work methodically down as one does stopping in at rooms in a structured way without being diverted by the sight of ‘that’ painting. Paintings have a tendency to capture not only one’s interest but imagination.
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