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Tag: Museum

Natascha with giant pommes frittes at Berlin Currywurst museum
Food, Germany

Sausage! The Curry Wurst Museum in Berlin

by Westwards / 13 May 201527 January 2024

You might think it weird for us as vegetarians to visit the „Curry Wurst Museum“ – a Berlin museum that …

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Suzuki Museum in Kanazawa
Japan

Experience Kanazawa – traditional Japan at its best

by Westwards / 2 May 201526 February 2024

On a visit to Japan’s old Samurai town of Kanazawa, we experience traditional Japanese arts, modern art and architecture, and …

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Modern sculpture by Roy Lichtenstein in a courtyard
Spain

Visiting the golden triangle of art in Madrid

by Westwards / 5 December 201430 March 2021

Everyone visiting Madrid who is only remotely interested in art will have a look at one or two, or possibly …

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Big Pit Coal Mine
UK, UNESCO

The Big Pit coal museum in South Wales – an encounter with the miners

by Westwards / 27 November 201430 March 2021

The coal mines in South Wales used to be among the biggest in the world, and the miners’ strikes in …

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Relief of Echnation and Nefertiti
Egypt, Germany

The Amarna exhibition in Berlin invites the blind to see Nefertiti

by Westwards / 8 December 20121 March 2023

A hundred years after the discovery of the famous Nefertiti bust, the Berlin Egyptological Museum is showing off finds from …

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Baroque sleeping room at the Charlottenburg Palace
Egypt, Germany

2000 years of history in Charlottenburg’s museums

by Westwards / 11 November 20123 April 2021

On a rainy Saturday we finally visited two of Charlottenburg’s museums we had had on our sightseeing list for quite …

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Zebra op-art at the Vasarely Museum in Budapest
Hungary

Vasarely’s Op-Art in Hungary

by Westwards / 6 June 201229 July 2022

Victor Vasarely, one of the most important proponents of Op-art, was born in 1908 in Pécs, a Hungarian small town …

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Natascha sitting on a couch in front of a huge Vasarely painting
France

Artists in Provence, van Gogh to Vasarely

by Westwards / 17 April 20125 April 2021

“This bowler hat may be the one Cezanne was wearing on the picture in our leaflet, and these small bottles …

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Beer sign in Bayreuth Maisels brewery museum
Drink, Germany

Liquid bread in the Bayreuth Brewery Museum

by Westwards / 22 September 200810 April 2021

„We have the highest density of breweries in the world!“ Michael, our guide, takes regional pride in the area’s beer …

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Coca Cola signs, Atlanta World of Coca Cola
Drink, USA

Always Coca Cola… in the Coca Cola World in Atlanta

by Westwards / 13 June 200818 February 2023

“Yeah, that’s a good one, you like it?“ The boy nods and pushes the lever at the height of his …

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