Mercury Fountain, Miro Foundation

I thought I’d share a couple of little clips I took on my visit to the Fundació Joan Miró last week, one is a few of and from the rooftop, which is dotted with various sculptures, and the other is a fascinating mercury fountain created by Alexander Calder. And don’t worry, it’s enclosed in a glass case!

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Anton Garrett Says:
July 3, 2024 at 10:19 am

Spain was blessed with the world’s largest mercury mine at Almadén (meanig ‘the mine’ in Arabic), which closed in this century after giving the world one quarter of a million tons of mercury in the previous 2000 years. That’s a cube of side 26 metres.

As the density of mercury exceeds that of lead, the pump for that fountain must have some wellie.

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- Anton Garrett Says:
  July 3, 2024 at 1:53 pm
  
  PS reminds me of the old joke about HG Wells. (The Romans called mercury ‘hydragyrum’, meaning water-like silver.)
  
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