Friday, April 22, 2011

Easter Holidays and a Trip To GOMA!

For the uninitiated, GOMA is short for the Gallery of Modern Art, situated on Brisbane's Southbank cultural precinct. During the January school holidays, I had promised to take Miss Eleven to visit there as a) we'd heard that it was fantastic and b) it was free!!! Unfortunately, the week we had planned to go was so rained out that that entire area flooded and everything shut down until the waters receded.....so no GOMA visit!

Fast forward to the Easter holidays and no floods meant that we could go! And what a fun time it was! Not only was it very hands-on and child-friendly but there was something of interest there for kids and adults alike! Unfortunately, there were a few queues (nothing compared to our Europe trip though!) but the exhibits were well worth it!

My favourite was the finches exhibition and the 'First Jobs' pictures! I hope you enjoy my little iphone montage of our day! Miss Eleven loved the balloon room despite the hour's wait!
The exhibition finishes next week so we are probably one of the last people in Brisbane to go! But it was fantastic fun and very much recommended!


The white brick construction table:

Wall of posters? Messages? Not sure:
I loved this exhibit....so retro and interesting:
Down the slide to the GOMA exit!