J. Gafarot's photos with the keyword: Museum

Classic fisherman, XIX century. about midlle of the coast. Handtools and marine paraphernalia.

Kiasma The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma is part of the Finnish National Gallery. The Finnish National Gallery is Finland’s largest art museum organisation. Its activities are governed by the National Gallery Act. Kiasma organises exhibitions, performances and events. Public programming in Kiasma makes contemporary art accessible to everyone. Its services range from colour play for toddlers to art workshops for grownups to guided tours and events. Kiasma’s extensive educational programming integrates contemporary art into schoolwork.

The old ways.

Working with grain to show to the young ones of now how bread was made when grand father started his mill, water powered, of course !

Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. Its name kiasma, Finnish for chiasma, alludes to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl. Kiasma is part of the Finnish National Gallery, and it is responsible for the gallery's contemporary art collection. Its central goal is to showcase contemporary art and to strengthen its status.

His Master's Voice (HMV) was the unofficial name of a major British record label created in 1901 by The Gramophone Co. Ltd. The phrase was first coined in the 1890s as the title of a painting depicting a terrier-mix dog named Nipper listening to a wind-up disc gramophone. In the original painting, the dog is listening to a cylinder phonograph. It is a famous trademark in the recording industry. In the 1970s, the statue of the dog and gramophone, His Master's Voice, were cloaked in bronze and was awarded by the record company (EMI) to artists or music producers or composers as a music award and often only after selling more than 100,000 recordings. Wiki.

The main exhibition hall ends with three huge baroque coaches, made in Rome, for the Portuguese ambassador to the Vatican D. Rodrigo Almeida e Menezes, Marquis of Abrantes in an embassy sent to Pope Clement XI by order of King D. João V of Portugal. These coaches of 5 tons have luxurious interiors and are decorated with golden life-sized sculptures. For many years no European monarch sent embassies to the Vatican not being able to achieve such grandeur!

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The cabriolet.

For, if you prefer a more discrete and self effacing approach you can always take this one !

But if a ceremonial is on the order of the day , you take the coach, originally a large, usually closed, four-wheeled carriage with two or more horses harnessed as a team, controlled by a coachman and/or one or more postilions. The term "coach" first came into use in the 15th century, and spread across Europe. There are a number of types of coaches, with differentiations based on use, location and size

By the early XIX century there were about 78 types of carriages. A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for people, usually horse-drawn; litters (palanquins) and sedan chairs are excluded, since they are wheelless vehicles. The carriage is especially designed for private passenger use and for comfort or elegance, though some are also used to transport goods. It may be light, smart and fast or heavy, large and comfortable. Carriages normally have suspension using leaf springs, elliptical springs (in the 19th century) or leather strapping. A public passenger vehicle would not usually be called a carriage – terms for such include stagecoach, charabanc and omnibus. Working vehicles such as the (four-wheeled) wagon and (two-wheeled) cart share important parts of the history of the carriage, as is the fast (two-wheeled) chariot. cf Wikipedia,