Day at the Museum

Monday brought our last day in London. We decided to start the morning off with a visit to the Dali exhibit down that I had seen down near the Eye of London.

“I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.”

Salvador Dali is one of the best know artist in the surrealist movement of the 20th century. He’s also what Kevin calls “one wierd dude”. One of his most famous themes is the use of melting clocks to symbolize the irrelevance of time. However, he may be the most famous for his flamboyant mustache, something that people in the annual NYC mustache competition should take note of. Dali not only created surrealist images on canvas, but surrealist objects where he combined something ordinary with something completely bizarre.

Dali’s Lobster Telephone

While some of his more famous works were not at the exhibit, they did have an extensive collection of his illustrations for various literary works, which was neat to see all together.

After we got our fill of the bizarre, we headed to the Natural History museum. The place is probably one of the most impressive museums architecturally that I have ever been to. Inside, it was a standard Natural History museum, but it did have an excellent gemstone exhibit. Plus, its free.

We headed home on the train. Since it was not Sunday, the trip was painless. Overall, London was great fun but the hustle and bustle got to me after awhile. Ulverston is much more relaxed and laid back.