Beautiful book porn from Antwerp(en)

Antwerp: my favorite city in Belgium.

The Platin-Moretus museum was a printing press during the Dutch Golden Age... a big one. An axis, in fact, for humanist learning...

Mmm, humanism. One of my favoritest things in the world. Hell, I like revivals of all kinds. Better than revivals, though, are those rare beautiful things that have remained essentially the same.

Behind bars, behind glass... good thing too, or else I would been all up in there with my greedy, grimy fingers. Other than the employees, I had that entire museum to myself!

Art museum love

Gah, I'm such a hoarder. Looks like I'm starting to grow a little collection of museum maps... I like that since they're sister museums, their stuff all matches, though. Kinda justifies the obsessiveness, doesn't it?

One on the left was from ages ago, one on the right was from the BLLBC's most recent visit (which was this Tuesday, 12/11/12). Yes, San Francisco was too cold for my foolish little skirt, but it was terrific fun, and we looked hot, which is what really matters.