Escher Musuem in the Hague

Crazy chandeliers adorn the entire palace.

 As part of our goal of preventing massive jetlag, on our first afternoon in the Hague, we did not allow any of the students to sleep, but rather dragged them out into the snow for a visit to the Escher museum.  A gorgeous state palace has been converted into a museum honoring his works.  And the best part is that the museum allows you to photograph the art, so I got some great pictures of his famous drawings.   

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The third floor is full of "make your own Escher" stuff.  This is my attempt at his famous drawing of himself reflected in a silver sphere.

This was a new painting to me, and I loved the juxtaposition of dark patterned mud with trees reflected in the puddle.  I thought he only drew crazy alternate universe stuff, but I was very wrong.