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For art lovers who don’t go to every opening day but who still like to visit galleries and museums, it doesn’t take much effort to arrange something special — a spontaneous museum visit.

After visiting the exhibition you can meet friends and like-mindedpeople in the open air near the museum to talk about what you’ve seen. Over a glass of wine you exchange impressions and express your artistic points of view, whether original or not, before you have to part company.

The table decorations which suit such an occasion are especially effective if they clearly reflect the tone of the exhibition.

Contemporary or avant-garde, factual or dramatized, colourful or pastel shades, cool or even with Baroque elements in homage to old masters. Let yourself be inspired by the exhibition pieces.

What to do:

Drawing paper from a roll, available from specialist shops, is used both for a tablecloth and a canvas here. This tablecloth should not just lie there, but should truly reflect the tone of the museum visit and should be painted or written on; in other words, it should be a work of art.

As a motif, place brushes, pencils, wax crayons, tempera paints and other painting equipment on the table.

An additional stimulus can be provided by little objects d’art or exhibition posters which are also placed on the table.

If the decorations and other design elements appear too stark against the tablecloth, a colourful bunch of wild flowers with cornflowers and carnations will swiftly add the necessary freshness to liven upthe table.

Tip:

If you want to hold your post- museum meeting in the museum grounds, then you should enquire whether this is possible and obtain permission. In this way you will avoid unpleasant surprises during the convivial get-together.

Almost every exhibition is announced by posters, which you can collect privately. Or you can buy picture postcards of the exhibits at the exhibition. Both are useful sources of material from which you can make invitations to your meeting. If you don’t use them as an invitation, then the posters will be put to equally good use as a memento of your museum visit or as an eye-catching display on an easel.

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