Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
It is a playground for old and young: the National Museum of Scotland or Royal Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland is a fantastic museum of natural history, technology and art. It is not the biggest one I’ve ever seen but it consistently includes elements to play and have fun. It was opened in 1888 and can be visited free of charge. Continue reading “Royal Museum”
The National Gallery of Scotland is a picture gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland – located within the Princes Street Gardens underneath Edinburgh castle. It consists of two neo-classical buildings linked in the underground and opened in 1859. The collection consists of Scottish and European masterpieces. Continue reading “National Gallery of Scotland”
The Wuseum is the Werder Bremen museum located at the Weserstadion in Bremen, Germany. You can reach it through the ticket office on the side of the stadium facing the city – and the guided tours through the stadium end here. It is rather small and you’ll have to be a fan of the soccer club to have fun here.
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The Universum is an interactive science museum in Bremen, Germany. It was opened in the year 2000 and offers 250 interactive items on 4000 square meters. The three areas of the exhibition are nature, human, and technology. Attached you’ll find an outdoor area with different items and a tower to climb up.
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The Optisches Museum is a science museum in Jena, Germany. It focuses on optical topics – as Jena was a pioneer in these – like photography, telescopes, glasses and microscopes. The museum shows wonderful items of the past and explains how the worked and developed over time. Continue reading “Optical museum”
The Technikmuseum is a technology museum with branches in Sinsheim and Speyer, Germany. You can take a look at old planes, cars, trains, ships, a submarine and a space ship. Most of these vehicles are arranged in a way that you can climb into them and explore them. Continue reading “Technikmuseum”
The cloister in Magdeburg, Germany is located in the city center close to the cathedral and the green citadel. It has a wonderful architecture and a fantastic halation. It was built in the year 1015 and still spreads the atmosphere of that time. Today it serves as a museum of modern art. Continue reading “Kloster unserer lieben Frauen”
The story of Anne Frank, her hiding, deportation and of course her diary are well-known to the world. That is why everybody visiting Amsterdam, the Netherlands wants to visit that special place at the Prinsengracht where here family managed to hide for a longer time.
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I’ve been to Amsterdam, the Netherlands many times during the last ten years but I never got the opportunity to explore the Rijksmuseum in its full beauty. On my last trip is was at least partly opened, since April 2013 the renovation works were finished. And that is why we could finally see every part of it – including “De Nachtwacht” (“The Night Watch“) of Rembrandt van Rijn. Continue reading “Reopened Rijksmuseum”
There are many old mines that can be visited in Germany, especially in the Harz mountains. But the salt mine in Wieliczka close to Kraków, Poland stands out in different dimensions. At first the vast size has to be named; it is somehow like a city under the earth – with a restaurant, a museum and different shops. You can walk around down there for hours.