Museum Day

We are still tired... call it jet lag, bad shape, you shouldn't bite off more than you can do, MS...  Who knows.  The thing is that yesterday we had to rest and just lazed around.  That's why there was no post.

However, today we went to two special museums.  The first one was "The Prinzhorn Collection". This museum gathers the art of patients from psychiatric hospitals in the beginning of the 20th century.  It is very interesting.  They were artists whose art had to be specially classified, because no determined style could be applied.  This is a good example:

Then we went to the Student Prison Museum.  It's kind of strange to say that, but from the 1770's  to the 1910's students were incarcerated if they were drunk, if they sang on the streets, if they offended some authority, if they fought... There was a time when students enjoyed being in jail or even felt that it was something they had to do before graduation.  There was a maximum stay of four months...  They painted the rooms and made jokes about the police, called their rooms "Solitude", "Palais Royale" and the bathroom was the "king throne" :o)

They should have a jail for naughty students now :o)

Anyway, it has been very good to be in touch with Maryam (Bassam's wife) and to know about his state.  He's doing as expected: lots of nausea, but already in Day + 2.  They say engraftment occurs around day 12 and from that moment, it's a steady improvement.

Shana tova for everybody...