Das Museum für Kommunikation in Berlin ist ein sehr altes Museum und war früher vor allem ein Postmuseum und daher liegt ein großer Schwerpunkt des Museums immer noch auf Briefverkehr. Zu bestaunen sind sonderliche Postkarten und uralte Briefmarken. Aber fernab von allem Postwesen sind natürlich auch modernere Rundfunkgeräte ausgestellt.
Als Highlight in der Eingangshalle sind drei Roboter wovon der eine tatsächlich in der [...] Continue Reading…
German Historical Museum /Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin – Original uploader was Gattom at en.wikipedia
On this day 25 years ago, the German Historical Museum was inaugurated and since then has become a major museum foundation in Germany.
The German Historical Museum /Deutsches Historisches Museum or ‘ DHM ‘ is a Berlin museum devoted to German history – it defines itself as a place of [...] Continue Reading…
One of cultural Berlin’s best-known events is called ‘The Long Night of Museums’/ Lange Nacht der Museen, and it is just that and so successfull have they proven to be that they are onto to the 31 st one now – there are two annually the last one being held in January earlier this year. And there are no less than 110 museums/galleries from which [...] Continue Reading…
As U2′s Los Angeles performed Belfast yearnings for religious and income neutral postcodes go, there are places ‘where the streets have no name’. This seems true not only in Utopia but elsewhere, too. Namely in New York City. Who doesn’t know the NYC grid, after all?!
As a student I did a bike-messenger stint in Manhattan, so tourists would frequently ask me for [...] Continue Reading…
One of cultural Berlin’s best-known events is called ‘The Long Night of Museums’/ Lange Nacht der Museen, and it is just that and so successfull have they proven to be that they are onto to the 30th one now.
Nearly 100 museums and galleries will open their doors for extended hours, into special exhibitions, guided tours, music and [...] Continue Reading…
Happy Birthday Frederick the Great – but you may well ask yourself also, who was actually Frederick the Great………and why …..’the Great’?
Today exactly 300 years ago a future enlightened ruler of what was then Prussia was born.
Frederick II – a brilliant military commander, a tolerant prince, a philosopher, a musician – and perhaps Europes first gay-monarch -take your pick- he [...] Continue Reading…
Frederick the Great by Anton Graff – from Wikipedia
Frederik the Great’, aka Friedrich der Große is justifiably almost synonymous with Berlin – he created his great palace with the baroque gardens ‘Sanssouci’ [no worries!] in Potsdam just outside Berlin.
This year 2012 will the 300th anniversary of his birth – his’ Jubiläumsjahr’- and there will be great celebrations in Berlin but especially in the [...] Continue Reading…
On Show in Berlin til 31st October – Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Lady with an Ermine’ (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani – from Wikipedia -National Museum, Kraków
Thousands of art enthusiasts lined-up on Thursday outside Berlin’s Gemaldegalerie to see the portrait of ‘Cecilia Gallerani’ otherwise known as ‘Frau mit Hermelin’ or ‘Lady with an Ermine’ – which is just one [...] Continue Reading…
The UK based Guardian and its travel writer Rory MacLean have announced their selection of the top 10 best museums in Berlin.
Berlin has more than 170 museums and galleries so the list is really endless and while the Guardian and its writer certainly may chose any museums they want, it says a lot about the way they chose the ones they [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin Dom – Berlin Cathedral foto from Wikipedia by Holger Weinandt; Bearbeitung: unify (Perspektive entzerrt)
The Berliner Dom (and the unfortunate Kaiser who had it built)
The Berliner Dom is certainly one of the most conspicuous buildings in Berlin. It is perhaps the most striking example of the massive building projects that the Hohenzollern family undertook in their attempts to turn Berlin [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin and the contemporary German painter Rainer Fetting go well together.
He is presently internationally recognized as one of the best known modern German artists – most known for his expressive figurative paintings including portraits but also diverse kinds of subject-matter, as well as bronze sculptures.
The German painter and sculptor Rainer Fetting was born on 31st December 1949 in Wilhelmshaven and was [...] Continue Reading…
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