Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
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.
The Centre Pompidou in Paris, France is one of my favorite museums. It is a unique place for discovering modern art and entertaining every time I’m there. That’s why I was really surprised to find another Centre Pompidou – at Málaga, Spain. It wasn’t inside my guidebooks as it was pretty new: it opened in 2015 and shall be open for five years – the future not yet decided.
Pablo Picasso, the great Spanish painter, was born in Málaga in 1881, left early and never returned. Nevertheless a museum was created for home at the city center, close to his birthplace (which can also be visited). At his an ancient building with a big courtyard in Arab style. The few exhibits are arranged in the wings of the house.
King Charles V. of Spain planned to make Granada the seat of government. Therefore he made minor and major changes to the Alhambra. Within some parts of the Nasrid palaces you can find his slogan “plus ultra” (“further beyond”) decorating the walls. He also tore some parts of the palaces down and errected the round shaped Palacio de Carlos V. – but his original plan was never finished because political goals changed.
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