The Munich museum fairy

When Manu and I where in Munich in June, we dedicated a part of our visit also to art.
You know, we are not the kind of art addicted that stop at every church and monument visiting every single room of any museum listed in the guide. We prefer selecting few things that we think could be interesting for us and then walking around getting first of all the spirit of a place, the mood of the people, trying to figure out how it feels living in that place.
Anyhow, for our artistic tour of Munich we selected for Saturday the “Haus der Kunst” (the House of Art), which is a severe neoclassical building built beginning of the 20th century in the southern side of the Englischer Garten (the wonderful park that covers a big part of the city center). Here there are usually exhibitions of contemporary art and in fact when we arrived we had the choice of four exhibitions. We chose the one of Robert Rauschenberg, because he is well-known and passed away few months ago.
When we arrived in the halls dedicated to his works, we realized that yes, Rauschenberg is well-known, but in fact we didn’t know anything about him! His works where there, made with materials like cardboard boxes or fabrics, or an old bike, a bath-tub… but we felt disoriented in front of these works. We stood there, in the center of the hall, just turning around and I said: “In this case, I wish we had a guide to explain all this”.
And… you won’t believe it! right when I finished that sentence a young woman appeared in front of us like a fairy and said: “Hi, if you wish I could guide you through this exhibition. It’s for free, it’s offered by the house”. Imagine our astonishment! Of course we said yes and then also two other women joined us and so we got a concise but very clear and passionate description of the works and life of Robert Rauschenberg. Everything seemed so different thanks to her explanation!
After more or less twenty minutes, as quick as she had appeared, she also disappeared. She asked if we had any question, we said no, she wished us a good visit and walked away very quickly.
We were astounded and so happy! We were laughing like two kids that had received an unexpected present in an ordinary day.
After the visit we were still commenting our “museum fairy” and Manu stopped walking and said: “Illy, maybe you have supernatural powers… now, could you please try with « we would need one million euro on our bank account » ?”