Museum heaven

I have gotten a bit behind in my blog posts, so I am going to cover several days at once. On Sunday we went to the Glyptotek. It was so big we couldn't even get all the way through it. We are going to go back another Sunday to see the paintings. Devotees of my blog will remember that this is where we had our opening ceremonies
Here is the Greek temple that our opening ceremony was in.

On Wednesday I had my first study tour with my Hans Christian Anderson class, which is by far is my favorite class. We went to the old Royal theater, which is where Hans Christian Anderson was a ballet dancer as a teenager. It is exactly the same as it was during his time.

These are some of the equipment they used to make thunder and rain noises. My teacher made people actually use them before suddenly reading the Do Not Touch signs that were prominently displayed
This is the view from the royal box.
We also went to the Thorvaldsen Museum. He was a famous sculpter during the Danish Golden Age (which is when H.C. Anderson lived). The museum had these long corridors with little rooms full of statues. It was really pretty and every room had a different beautiful ceiling.Here is a copy of the sculpture Thorvaldsen made for the Pope. He was the first Protestant to be commisioned by the Pope for his sculpture.


This picture is from Thursday. I was walking with a couple girls from my class during our break and we happened onto a parade. Every day the Royal Guard walk from the palace to the Parliament.