{"id":110444,"date":"2017-03-14T11:19:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T10:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magazine.theblondesalad.com\/?p=110444"},"modified":"2018-10-12T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T08:06:00","slug":"hotels-art-collections-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblondesalad.com\/en\/stay\/hotels-art-collections-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotels with art collections: when your hotel is a museum, too!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The famous French writer Jean-Paul Sartre used to say, “an empty bag is the heaviest baggage.”<\/em> This is how travel should be intended, as a unique experience that allows your luggage to be full of beautiful memories when you go home, rather than decoration that is destined to gather dust on a shelf. When you travel, sooner or later, you will stay at a hotel. So many hours spent online looking for the best one, a million tabs open, and in the end, the one chosen by the majority of the group is the winner. Having a comfortable, beautiful hotel is increasingly important<\/strong> for travelers, and if the place happens to have an art collection that can rival the ones of the best museums in town, then bingo! Imagine bad weather, the kind of day when it never stops raining: no problem, you can have a look at the art inside your hotel. Of course, we are talking about 5-star hotels here, and their incredible standard. From Rome, to Oslo, through the Caribbean, here are the places to go to spend some time surrounded by art.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walled Off Hotel<\/a><\/strong>, Palestine
\nWe might say that this hotel, entirely designed by the great British artist Banksy, is a real political message. Located on the border between Palestine and Israel, you will find one of the world’s most challenging views, on the Gaza wall, and a lot of his artwork there. If you book one specific room, “Banksy’s room”, you will sleep beside one of his most controversial artworks, showing a Palestinian and an Israeli engaging in a pillow fight.<\/p>\n\n\t\t