 
One of the museums I went today was the Alfred Mirek Russian Accordion Museum. As an accordion-focused museum, it demonstrated numerous historical photos and a presentation of the accordion production in Russia in the last century and other related materials and accessories to the instrument. It was a satisfactory assembly of the traditional and symbolic instrument of the Russian culture, and as expected, those old-style posters of accordion concerts or Russian brands of accordion and their manufacturer description were the two interesting areas for me. The last part of the exhibition showed music notes of accordions in various languages, and I saw the name of Hong Kong. Very funny, at the little space of this signage of ‘Hong Kong’ was displayed with some notes with Japanese characters, while some Chinese notes were misunderstood as the one from Thailand. I recalled seeing a coin of the Ching dynasty misplayed under the Babylonian section in the British museum. On this same day when I walked at Arbat, a person asked me the capital of Hong Kong. I have a flaw impression that in some old geographical books or location maps shown on the screen on certain airlines used the name ‘Victoria’ as the central indicator of the possession of Hong Kong. Was it a CBD capital, or a misrepresentation of the city? Perhaps it was my memory of the pre-1997. I just can’t remember clearly no more.Libellés : acccordion, moscow, musee, voyage |
