Tag: museums
Climate crisis in Japan: Real sea ice is only available in museums – knowledge
Mombetsu, in northern Japan, is the southernmost place where the sea brings drift ice and is believed to be the first to lose it to the climate crisis. But without…
Museums in Munich: What’s going on in art? Exhibitions worth seeing in March – Munich
What was it like when there was no Google Maps, no Street View, no Google Earth? When you couldn’t visually beam yourself to any hotspot in the world with just…
New study: Museums own 19,000 objects from Namibia – culture
For decades, ethnological museums were black holes. Tens of thousands of objects – from important cult objects to spoons, spears and other unspectacular everyday items – had disappeared since colonial…
Failed Inventions: The Museum of Failure – Knowledge
The fragment of this text could almost have been submitted as an exhibit for the museum, which is what this is about. It actually should have been finished much earlier,…
Laying the foundation stone for “Berlin Modern”: Museum without properties – culture
From Jörg Häntzschel Another big show is planned in Berlin on Friday. With drumming, the foundation stone of the “Berlin Modern” museum is lifted by a crane into the huge…
Overtourism debate: Museum director compares Florence to prostitute – travel
It’s like that sometimes with a lover. The butterflies in your stomach, the longing, the joy of seeing you again, the rush of emotions when the time comes: Yes, wonderful!…
Germanisches Nationalmuseum: Nuremberg presents renovation plans – Culture
The Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg is the largest cultural history museum in the German-speaking region. Around 400,000 people visit it every year. There are 1.4 million works in its…
Germanisches Nationalmuseum: Nuremberg presents renovation plans – Culture
The Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg is the largest cultural history museum in the German-speaking region. Around 400,000 people visit it every year. There are 1.4 million works in its…
Curious Collections: A Museum of Feces – Knowledge
There are many reasons to be jealous of the English language. The word poo is one of them. It’s pronounced “pu”, so cute, so harmless. In German, however: “Kacke”. Or…
Munich: Open days in the Geiger archive – Munich
To immerse yourself in the painter Rupprecht Geiger’s world of colors and shapes, there is hardly a better place than the Geiger Archive. The rooms have now been completely redesigned…