Once I sort through my many Riga photos I will post about that. In the meantime, art! I took a detour on my way home from Riga to visit the Swedish National Art museum in Stockholm. They have a great exhibit (heh) on now called ‘Lust och Last‘ demonstrating naughtiness throughout the ages. It is a great collection, and very well curated with a nice progressive view on history and culture, which I have come to really appreciate from Swedish museums. Unfortunately photos were not allowed in that exhibit, but I took a few pictures from elsewhere in the museum that I thought could speak to the topic.
It’s amazing once you start visiting museums how different they can be – in quality of items, in tone, in theme, in curator bias.
We visited the ancient marble quarries on Paros – the source of the Parian marble used for Venus de Milo. Parian Greeks are quite proud of this.