Skeddie Sauce and other Delights: Auto Tour Day 2

It's only day 2 and we are already behind schedule. We should have done this museum yesterday after checking into the hotel. But today is the day to see it and it is for sure museum weather.

We drive from our hotel to the city center and go to Aros Museum.
An amazing Museum with a rainbow colored sky room at the top of the building.

The first thing we did was take the elevator to the top.

On a sunny day, you can go out and admire the view of the city.

You can go out as well on a wet day but we decided to stay indoors.

I can see now that I should have stepped into the clear space to shoot the red and orange color - but you get the idea.

A bust sculpture of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

Here you can see an up close pix of brush stroke details by Vilhelm Lundstrøm from 1933.

A lot of fantastic art work has come from different artist who lived and painted in the northern tip of Denmark. You may know know it by you are actually are aware of these works as they are used for different purposes around the world. This painting is from Krøyer, painted in 1898. Abercrombie and Fitch surely got their ideas from this painting. Here is the Wikiedpedia link to the painters of Skagen, as they are called. Click here and see if you don't recognize at least one or two of the paintings.

Another very famous Danish artist, Michael Ancher, from the same place and same era.

I don't know this artist but if you had stuck your face as close to this painting as I did, you would be sooooooooo amazed. The detail is that of a 20 mega bite camera. I've been to Norway and it looks just like this painting.

I didn't catch the name of this dude but I was wowed by the brush strokes and detail.

From one of the upper floors you could look out over the wet city of Aarhus.

We could never have done this museum with out the help of some wheels.

I thought I would just snap this text and read it at home to get the explanation of this big boy - wrong. Nevertheless, the text is interesting regardless of the artwork.

I wanted to put my foot next to this one to show how huge it was. It was about the size of a bathtub.

There were light boxes of photos from different places around the world - none of LA :-(

I wanted to wheel Jens around this installation but I guess the rope is to keep people like me away from the artwork and from being cheezie.

After the museum we drove into town. We found a place to park and asked a person which way to restaurant row. Go this way and that way and hang a right - a woman told us. We hung a left and didn't find anything. Eventually we come to this coffee shop. It was tasty and luckily it was right next to the cathedral that Jens wanted to show me.

After cake, coffee and sandwich we walked into this cathedral. It was tiny and no big deal. Church service was going on - It was Friday - It was 2:30 in the afternoon - It was in Korean. And oddly enough, there were 2 priest - one at each end of the middle walkway and none at the alter. It was a catholic church so at mass, we stood, kneeled, sat, stood, kneeled, sat, stood, kneeled, sat,............. crossed our selves a number of times to show respect and go along with the program, yawned and then left. A woman followed us out and said - I think you are looking for the cathedral down at the other end of the street. Oops.

Jens is the official dog petter of Denmark.

The pedestrian street was festive and wonderful so I am glad we went the wrong way.

I don't know how they did it. It was truly bizarre. We are walking along the pedestrian street - ground level - looking at all of the buildings - window shopping - and before we knew it, we are up in the sky, on a bridge over a river. We were on the ground - how did we get so high? But here we were, over restaurant row and just a stone throw away from the Cathedral.

In these 2 pix (above and below) we are still over the water but on a lower bridge.
You can see the higher bridge in the background.

Here's the Cathedral. The exact year is not know but it seems that construction started around 1200. It is the tallest and longest church in the country; 93 m (305 ft) in length and 96 m (315 ft) in height and a lotta bling.