On a sunny day in August Alexiei Dingli, Mayor of Valletta, visited Utrecht. He got an introduction to the city accompanied by Gertrud van Dam. They visited the House of Miffy, the part of the Central Museum dedicated to the world famous rabbit and the author Dick Bruna. Curator Ida van Zijl gave a short tour through the museum on architect Rietveld, another icon of Utrecht. He built the famous blue-and-red chair and the Rietveld-Schröder House.
Also in the programme was a visit to the 'niciest museum in The Netherlands', the Street Organ and Music Boxes Museum. This museum is well known for the restoration of clocks from the Forbidden City in Beijing. Also this visit was very cheerful. Unfortunately, due to a press conference Aleid Wolfsen, Mayor of Utrecht, was not able to meet his colleague. But through the mail they exchanged kindnesses.
This visit led to several good ideas for exchanges. The translation of Miffy books to Maltese is one of them. Connecting the new media artists at The Dutch Game Garden to the new media department at Malta University is another we started working on.
