October 6 (1)

The best touristy stuff are things that happen by pure luck - and random luck happened on October 6th for me at the National Gallery Museum. It was a Sunday and my plan was to go the reptile house at 10am and then head to the National Gallery Museum at 11am, when it was supposed to open. The reptile house ended up being extremely boring (but I did get to see one of those signs that says "no balloons" so that's already something) and I was by the National Gallery by 10:30ish. I had planned to just walk around but saw that peeps were already going in, so I went in and, as luck would have it, it was open already because the Munch 150 exhibit was in its final days. There was the beginning of a crowd but I still managed to see everything quite well (note to parents: if you have a toddler, bring something for him/her to do while you visit because they will get bored after two rooms and will annoy everyone trying to visit the museum). Then as I was heading out I noticed that a queue had formed down to street level and the museum guards were actually telling people to wait before they could come in! It was random luck that I had planned to visit this place early on and that I hadn't spent any time at the reptile house… without that I would never have been able to beat that crowd and most likely would never have visited this second part of the Munch 150 exhibit. Oh, and special mention and kuddos to the lovely security person who helped me figure out the labyrinth that was the History museum. I'm all for using every space to display artefacts but I was absolutely lost there. It might have something to do with my natural tendency to tour rooms in a clockwise circle and most exhibits are actually displayed counter-clockwise.

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