{"id":389,"date":"2011-11-05T11:36:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T09:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2011\/11\/05\/national-museum-and-wilson-revisited\/"},"modified":"2017-06-07T14:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:27:41","slug":"national-museum-and-wilson-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2011\/11\/05\/national-museum-and-wilson-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"National Museum and Wilson Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

O.K. Shoot me, I am negligently late in updating the previous post Re-dedication of Wilson station<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are just having too much fun going places to stay home and focus on blog presentation.\u00a0 Oh Yes, I also have work to do hosting villas and workshops on Paros.\u00a0 See my latest web page for a week of Art & Antiquities<\/a> in Greece.<\/p>\n

Karin, however, is quite disciplined at organizing and commenting on her photos in various\u00a0albums.\u00a0 I will catch you up with some of those soon, I hope.<\/p>\n

\"WoodrowMeanwhile here is the unveiled Woodrow Wilson statue.\u00a0 It is quite magnificent and well placed in front of the main railway station.\u00a0 By the way, Karin has photos and comments on the station here<\/a><\/p>\n

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The ceremony was quite interesting \"Klaus,with relatively short speeches by these dignitaries including President Vaclav Klaus (2nd from right).\u00a0\u00a0 However, it was on the long side because everything was said in both Czech and English.\u00a0 The USA Ambassador was sooo american.<\/p>\n

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A few days later we decided to drop in on the advertised Wilson\/Masaryk exhibition at the New Building of the National Museum.\u00a0 Whoa, we got there mid-morning and it was closed tighter than a drum despite the open hours sign on the door indicating they should be open.\u00a0 No explanation that we could see, nor could the other people trying to get in.\u00a0 What makes this noteworthy is that this is the second time we have visited this building and the second time they were closed during announced open hours.\u00a0 My message: Don’t trust the National Museum!<\/span><\/p>\n

The saga continues.\u00a0 In follow up research the New Building had nothing listed for Wilson but there was an exhibition at the National Memorial on Vitkov Hill.\u00a0 Plus they too were going to unveil the newly refurbished statue of Jan Zizka, Czech general from the 15th century.\u00a0 So we hiked up the steep hill for that ceremony.\u00a0 The exhibition was disappointing because it was a series of sound recordings of political speeches and organised in no order that I could determine from the limited English included.\u00a0 We did watch an entertaining presentation by three weapons enthusiasts of late medieval sword fighting and the first use of gunpowder.\u00a0 The statue was certainly impressive; said to be the largest equestrian statue in the world.<\/p>\n

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O.K. Shoot me, I am negligently late in updating the previous post Re-dedication of Wilson station\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are just having too much fun going places to stay home and focus on blog presentation.\u00a0 Oh Yes, I also have work to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[84,17,83,81,82],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MK34-6h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":364,"url":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2011\/09\/24\/re-dedication-of-wilson-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":389,"position":0},"title":"Re-dedication of Wilson station","author":"Michael","date":"September 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The American Friends of the Czech Republic have worked long and hard, and raised a lot of money, to rebuild (not restore) the Wilson Monument at Prague's central train station.\u00a0 They are celebrating in style between 4 and 7 October including a $250 per plate dedication dinner. 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