Night in the museum

Tonight we went out to visit a few museums since it's "Night of Museum" night tonight. Basically, a bunch of museums citywide are open till midnight and you just pay 1.50Euro for a ticket and you can visit them all if you like. Most people pub crawl in BA, we gallery crawled. Either way you get a headache after you are done :)
Actually, it was a nice time out. We went to the Museum of Weapons (we've got two active boys... that's what they are interested in). But the great thing about the museum is that it is situated in the Micheal's Tower and the end of the "tour de force" is on the top of the tower which overlooks the whole downtown area. Pretty cool, but my Nokia in low lighting doesn't do it justice. It was actually a great view but you wouldn't know it by the pics.

Shortly after we cruised over to the National Gallery (on Panska) and saw a very cool optical illusion piece called "Passage". It's great. You gotta check it out. It's basically this narrow passage that you walk through that is lined with books from the floor to the ceiling. However, the "trick" is that their isn't any visible floor or ceiling. With the use of specially placed mirrors it feels like you are walking along a thin bridge with no rails through the middle of an endless abyss of books. Hard to describe, but fun to experience.

After we wanted to either get a McDonald's shake or hit the Slovak National Museum for their photo exhibit Shangri-la. But obviously everyone else in BA had the same idea by the looks of the lines that poured out of MD & the SNM. We caught the shake elsewhere and headed home. 11 o'clock is waaaaaay past the boys bedtime...so we will see how it goes tomorrow! :)