Last Saturday, I went to Pusat Sains Negara for the DaVinci exhibition. All thanks to Daniel from Total Sports Asia =D. I reached there first while waiting for the late comers ahem  Yuet Mui , her sister Yuet Leng and their friend Calvin. While I was waiting I saw on the announcement board that PSN has a biotech awareness thingy for primary kids and they include stuff like DNA etc. In a way I was quite impressed, back when i’m in primary, all i knew was what is a cell wait…it should be apa itu cell =( .

Ahhh~ PSN, the last time i’ve been here was during my primary school trip. From the way it looks nothing much has change I guess. Honestly the exhibition was owkaay la~ somehow I wasn’t impress with the wooden models of his inventions. However, I kinda like the short video presentation on plasma tv the exhibitors provide at certain sections. There were enough facts available on his life and his inventions at different sections which I think wasn’t too little and not too much for those who have super short attention span.

However, the highlight of the exhibition was the Mona Lisa section, ohhhh my how I enjoyed that section. The secrets and truths unlocked by Pascal a French engineer using his patented special camera was astonishing to me. I gotta say I somehow ‘feel’ for the Mona Lisa painting as it has gone through alot. It has been in the bathroom of Napoleon which gave it some water damage, had a rock thrown at it, acid damage upon it, stolen and returned.

Okay ranting part, from what i gather from the international site of this exhibition, our local exhibition were lack of several things: the exclusive 3d animation of Vitruvian Man and the Last Supper, Leonardo’s alphabet and writing technique, audio tour and many more. The vitruvian man and Last Supper painting were displayed as ‘other famous work of Leonardo’ without much explanation. Was a tad bit dissapointed, considering the Last Supper painting should be quite famous since it was a crucial aspect in the movie The DaVinci Code, I’m sure it’ll be more interesting to hear some views from some historian experts on it.

I would still recommend it to everyone though Rm25 for adults. You could try to get complimentary tickets, refer to my previous post about DaVinci for details. Personally, from this exhibition I’m really impressed about what Leonardo has done, I cannot comprehend how in his lifetime He could accomplish so much in different fields. Anatomy, painting, physics, music, inventor to name a few.

I think everyone should learn to appreciate history and art before its too late.

 

 

Haha no pictures from the exhibition since cameras are not allowed. You can see some at my previous post though cheeeerrrrrssss