Milan.... again

Milan Day Trip: November, 22, 2011

On our last day trip we went to Milan again. While we went to see older architecture in the first trip, this trip was solely new, contemporary architecture. We went to two different fair grounds in Milan, both of which have modern structures, and we went to two very cool museums. One was a design museum in the Palazzo del'Arte, and it was a design museum full of different kinds of chairs. There was so many different chair designs, and the fun part was that you could test most of them out. They had a bunch of other furniture, light fixtures, and ceramic desings around the gallery as well. One of the "chairs" looked like a bunch of green foam sticks sticking up from the ground in a big room that had windows opening up to the sky. We finally figured out that it was supposed to be like giant grass, and you could lay on them. It was supposed to mimic laying in the grass and looking at the clouds. I felt like an ant in the giant grass! The other museum was the Novecento museum which was located right next to the duomo. This was full of famous art my nineteenth century artists... another cool museum to see. I am sad that day trips are over! I really enjoyed traveling to all of the small/large towns around Genoa... a very neat part of this program!