Photo of the week #122 | my view on some antiquities
I can't call myself a fan of museums, but when a person lives in a museum city, he happens to get into islands of something collected and preserved in one place. I do not like to visit such places where it is collected, signed, explained, and often replaced with a dummy, but someone periodically drags me into them and, of course, I rarely photograph exhibits with signs. For example, I have visited the museums of the Peter and Paul Fortress more than once, but I was more interested in the architectural details of the building itself, a small part of which I am going to show today.
Here the exhibit is not a lamp, it only highlights what is an exhibit - the ancient masonry ceiling. It's hard to imagine how many layers of soil and paint there are, because this ceiling is more than 300 years old.
These photos are valuable to me because the Printing House museum, once located in the two-level casemates of the Peter and Paul Fortress, has long been closed for restoration, after which, of course, this place will be completely uninteresting to visit, like everything else "skillfully" restored here.
The vaults and walls will become smooth and will shine white... but who can be interested in this when many come only for antiquity, and not to admire the quality of repairs.
The creative workshop of the creators of this museum moved to another place, but it was much more interesting to observe the printing process on ancient printing presses within these walls.
I didn't manage to take a lot of photos of normal quality at that time, but I didn't think much about it, just photographing myself "for memory" and now I can show you a few more or less successful ones.
The post was created Photo of the week #122 for the contest from @mister-omortson
Something similar happens to me, when I visit a place I touch the walls and observe the minimum details of the architecture because it is what stands out sometimes more than the work itself that one wants to see, curiosity is in the details I would not remodel it, I would keep it, and well something new is made with other present things or what would be the future of the piece, the interest of the original is lost a pleasure to read this post.
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