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Pre-Anniversary Museum Visit – Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna

So as our fifth wedding anniversary approached, we considered almost every idea under the sun for how to celebrate: Puglia, Tuscany, the Amalfi; but eventually we decided to take it easy, stay in town, take a couple days off work and do the kinds of things that we never seem to be able to squeeze in, like visiting museums.

So we dropped Aleksander at daycare, played hooky for the day and headed towards the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderne

The museum was a welcome reprieve from the ongoing summer heatwave and provided much food for thought, with exhibits ranging from the inspiring to truly bizarre.

We walked, observed, chatted, laughed and reflected. Five action packed years of marriage had passed by quickly, and especially after Aleksander’s birth, taking stock of the days, months and years has become a luxury of time that we’re just not afforded anymore.

We meandered as though we were simply back to being a couple in love, masters of their own schedules! We fought back some parental guilt for being without our little one but washed that away with a glass of wine before lunch and another one with it.

The date was exactly what this couple needed and proved to be a great way to begin our weekend of celebration.

Boys Get Cultured – A Day at the Museum

As Dalia had a number of things to get done at home on a bright February Sunday, I decided to venture out with Aleksander and mostly by happenstance, we ended up at the Capitolini Museums, overlooking Piazza Venezia.

We’re both intrepid walkers and have never shied away from taking Aleksander for long meandering walks – even going back to his early days of -20 Ottawa adventures. That being said, as he ages and develops, his level of insistence to leave his stroller tends to get stronger. It was a bit of a risk heading this deep into the city without much of a lifeline, but what you gonna do, stare at the tv all day (when this is the option?!)

The Capitolini Museum has long been recommended to us as one of Rome’s best lowkey museums and it’s also part of the city’s civic sites that are accessible at a discount for residents. It was relatively easy to get set up with the account and only took a bit more time on first arrival to register for a year for 5€.

Aleksander snoozed as I hauled his stroller up and down all stairs within sight. The exhibitions were spacious, welcoming and not too dense for a dad with stroller in tow. Within an hour, I got a good sense of some of the main artistic sign posts in the city’s history and headed back outside for a head start home before he woke up.

It was an afternoon well spent and the kind of visit you think you’ll always get to but then a year has passed by and you haven’t gotten to it yet. As we almost hit the half-way mark of our time here, it’s exactly the kind of activity we have to prioritize squeezing in.