Trouwens, een paar jaar geleden trof ik dit minikunstwerkje aan ergens in Leiden. Heb helaas geen idee wie dit gemaakt heeft.
Street art to the max, hoe bescheiden van formaat ook.
If you are in #Leiden today or tomorrow (Sunday 10 September) you can go into the Leiden Town Hall and see several M.C. Escher wood cuts, which are rarely seen by the public. This is part of openmonumentdag in the Netherlands, where many national buildings open their doors this weekend and you can look around for free! #mcescher
The main commercial street is all decorated for the pride. But Today I Learned that the usual contractor that sets the various decoration in that street (national/regional days, Sinterklas/christmas, ... ) refused to hang the rainbow flags. Invoking religious reasons, so I heard.
Instead, this was done by the local #LGBTQI+ community. While doing so, they were subjected to insults and death threats.
That is, even in a country where the police and the military have a pride ship for the parade, the fight for existence and recognition of sexual diversity is not over. It's never over.
Museum Boerhaave weer bezocht na lange tijd.
De binnentuin met waterspeelplaats lijkt me een hit op zich. Aan het eind van de middag kwamen er nog ouders met kleine kinderen het museum binnen.
De wiskundeafdeling was ook leuk. Vooral omdat je op diverse plekken met je handen bezig kon zijn. Ik heb nog best wel even zitten puzzelen met de plexiglas tegels om Arabische patronen na te leggen.
Maar deze vitrinetekst heeft het mis. Juist in de zaal met Penrosetegels gaat het niet om de formules, maar om patronen, structuren en symmetrie.
I had to go to Delft for a meeting yesterday, and the train line between #Leiden and #Delft is closed for repairs, so I decided to cycle it on my commuter bike, 25km there and 25 back. The Dutch bike infrastructure is simply phenomenal - I cycled through small towns and through wide green fields on smooth bike only paths for 90% of the journey. Utterly amazing and it was a beautiful evening where I saw the sun set whilst heading into Leiden.