Ted. We have managed to stay busy here in Brussels. When in town on Sunday mornings Judy and I have worshipped at Holy Trinity Anglican Church.
This is a very active, diverse and community oriented parish. We were also able to volunteer with Community Kitchen, a local NGO that has built a large kitchen in the church basement where volunteers prepare thousands of hot meals each week that are distributed throughout the city.
One day we toured the Museum of Musical Instruments where over 8,000 instruments from around the world are on display. Many of these are ancient and should belong in a museum. Oh wait, they are! On entry, we were given a set of headphones and, as we examined an instrument, we were often able to hear recorded music that had been played on it.
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| MMI is in a classic Art Deco Building |
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| Formerly a department store, cases are repurposed |
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| Tibetan instruments |
At the Royal Museum of Fine Arts we saw many works of Flemish and Dutch artists.
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| A portrait by Rembrandt |
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| Census at Bethlehem by Bruegel the elder |
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| One of dozens of copies made by his son |
The Royal Museum for Central Africa has reorganized a collection of objects gathered in the 19th century by Belgian colonials in the Congo. An emphasis is now placed on the context of the artifacts explaining how they were collected, by whom and why. Belgium, like all countries, has a complex history and unlike many, is not afraid to be brutally honest.
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| 8,000 year old mask |
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