Apologies for not having written for a while but I have been quite busy with lots of extra substitute hours at the International School, plus we took a five day break in Venice at the end of April! Venice was beautiful and fourteen degrees or more warmer than Bergen, which was so nice! Unfortunately it did rain a little, but Italian rain is not the same as Bergen rain. It doesn't bounce back up at you from the steeet, soaking your trousers above the knee, and it doesn't create small rivers out of the roads either!
The weather when we got back was sleet and snow - what changes eh?!
As Scandinavians will tell you though, there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes. So no surprise then that people were queuing up on a rainy Thursday afternoon last week to get into the newly refurbished Rasmus Meyers art collection in central Bergen.
Rasmus Meyer (1858 to 1916) collected paintings from Norwegian artists such as Tidemand, Gude, Nikolai Astrup and Christian Krohg. He also bought several large Munch pieces, including some pencil drawings for that most world famous work of Munch's 'The Scream'.
Now apparently the museum, which is arranged to look like a well off Bergenese home from the late 1900's has been refurbished and painted. I am sure we will go there again. It is certainly an interesting place to visit on a wet weekend - of which there can be many. Next door is a modern art museum, which has a good selection of art from across the world from Renaissance times to the present day.
Bergen likes to think of itself as a town which supports art in all its forms and has several interesting sculptures dotted around town. As I write, finishing touches are being made to a massive mural at Lagunen beside the new tram stop (the tramway will eventually go all the way from Bergen city centre to the airport) of a woman wearing traditional Norwegian dress. At other stops along the tramline you can see a giant plastic rabbit, a sculpture that looks like a glacier, and various neon light arrangements in the tunnels. Eclectic taste!
A blog about daily life in Bergen, Norway. We moved here in 2010 due to work commitments (my husband's). Now having survived the first winter I feel able to write about the place without too much negativity! it is amazing how a lack of light, freezing temperatures and general horrid weather drain creativity!! I've learnt Norwegian, and work part time - so this really is living in Bergen!
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