My trip to the Bodensee / Lake Constance region in summer 2020 brought me to a surprisingly large number of car and technical museums. One of the rather less known places is the Wolfegg Car Museum (Automuseum Wolfegg), which is some…
ESO Supernova Munich – Garching
Professional stargazing: The European Southern Observatory, short ESO is a collaboration of multiple European countries to gather astronomic forces on the Southern hemisphere. Even though the big telescope sites are located in Chile, the head operations are in Garching, a Northern…
Marconi Automotive Museum & Foundation
A museum with an amazing collection of luxury and top-class racing cars, driven for the cause of charity. This is about the mission of the Marconi Automotive Museum & Foundation for Kids. Dick Marconi donated his amazing car collection with…
Bergisches Museum for Mining, Craft & Trade Bensberg
The story why I felt I had to visit the Bergisches Museum für Bergbau, Handwerk und Handel – the Bergisches Museum for Mining, Craft & Trade, is quite a funny one. In my review posting about Schloss Burg in Solingen,…
German Movie Museum Frankfurt
The German Movie Museum – or: Deutsches Filmmuseum is located in the heart of Frankfurt (Main). It gives you an overview about the history and the techniques of movie-making. Odeon lovers also enjoy the cinema in the basement of the building. Here…
Lyon Air Museum Santa Ana
In February 2020, I visited a lovely aviation museum in Santa Ana, Greater Los Angeles: the Lyon Air Museum is named after its founder, Major General William Lyon, who unfortunately passed away a few months after my visit. Here is…
Cap San Diego Museum Ship Hamburg
The Cap San Diego is a general cargo vessel, which has been in duty between 1962 and 1986. Since then, it is located at Hamburg Harbour as a museum ship. The 11,750 hp vessel, which is roughly 160 meters long and…
A Walk Through Zeche Zollverein (Pictured Story – Essen, Germany)
If an industrial site is jokingly called the Eiffel Tower of the Ruhrgebiet Region, it seems to be quite an impressive landmark. In fact, the Zeche Zollverein made it from a mining area to a UNESCO World Heritage. It received that status…