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“Museums and Music” Winston’s photos around Berlin, Germany (mshatta facade move to berlin)

November 28, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Preview of Winston’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Berlin, Germany Entry Title: “Museums and Music” Entry: “Our first full day in Berlin and our first real day of sightseeing. We decided to start our exploration of Berlin by using the ‘see Berlin in one day’ tour from our guidebook. This advised us to head to Mitte, one of the regions of Berlin and have breakfast at one of the many cafes there. We had already breakfasted on the provisions we purchased last night from Lidl so we were just in search of a hot drink once we arrived in Mitte. There was a reasonable amount of choice but we settled on Starbucks in the hopes of finding WiFi. Hot drinks in hand we found a table and were able to access a wireless hotspot which allowed me to get the last three days of Blogs up (5th, 6th and 7th). Blog updated and loaded up on caffeine we headed out to the next stop on our tour, the Pergamon Museum. The Pergamon museum is one of the museums on the aptly named Museuminsel – Museum Island. The collections at the Pergamon museum include: The Museum of Islamic art, a collection of classical antiquities and the Museum of the Ancient Near East. There was also a special exhibition of items from Edmund de Underg’s collection of Islamic Art. One of the most impressive pieces in the museum is the piece that gives the museum its name – the Pergamon Altar. This is …
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Go Germany for video game museum

October 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Germany’s capital, Berlin, is well-stocked with art galleries and historical museums. But now there’s a light-hearted alternative for museum lovers. Gamers of all ages can go to the newly-opened Computergames Museum for an overview of the video game industry. A Commodore computer isn’t exactly your typical museum exhibit, but Berlin’s new Computergames Museum isn’t your typical museum either. This is the place where everyone celebrates all things gaming. The museum had been opened in the late 90s, but closed down in 2000. After the re-opening on January 21, 2011, it quickly drew the attention of video game fans. The older gamers find it somewhat nostalgic, while youngsters enjoy the games themselves. Andreas Lange, Computergames Museum director, said, “There are the visitors around 40 and they grew up with these games, for them this is nostalgia. And then you have the children, for them it is a history lesson. They play games here that they did not know before and they say: ‘OK that is the great-grandfather of the games I like to play.’” Not to be confused with “PlayStation”, the most popular game on display is called “Painstation”. It is based on the classic Pong game, but provides a painful sting in the tail from two small rubber whips each time the player lets a ball slip past the paddle. Ruben Brundell, museum visitor, said, “I think it’s great. It is cool that you can actually play lots of games. And it is also nice that it is made in chronological order so it’s real …

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BMW Art Cars Night @BMW Museum – Munich, Germany (17-Feb-2011)

April 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Special evening Event on 17th of Feb 2011 in Munich, Germany (@BMW Museum), this video is showing a small portion of all the BMW Art Cars there (exhibition will be there until June 2011). There are 17 Art cars in total (over the past 35 years), and 16 of them are to be seen at the BMW Museum in Munich. Normally these cars travel the world to all kinds of Museums … (ie New York, London, Asia, etc.)
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