munich's museums

what to do on a rainy sunday in munich? well, it is always a good idea to visit one of the many munich's museums. the state owned museums provide a reduced entry fee for only 1 euro per person on sundays, so it is also not expensive, my dears :-)

bayerisches nationalmuseum (bavarian national museum):

however, i wanted to write this blog post last year as we visited the residenz museum with friends (that nice guided historical tour was a birthday gift for me) and the völkerkunde-museum with my wife + eldest daughter within few weeks. we also tried to visit the bavarian national museum with my wife, but it was a nice sunny day, so we just made many pictures from outside and continued to walk in the nearby english gardens at the river isar. today we finally managed to visit the national museum from inside, too :-)

• residenz (residence of the bavarian kings) ~ pictures see below
• völkerkundemuseum about nations around the world - the (only) nice parts were polynesia/micronesia and the special exhibition about myanmar, so we decided to visit myanmar this year ~ pictures see below
• lange nacht der museen - at the long night of munich's museum we especially visited the beer museum and a guided historical tour through the old city center
• nymphenburg castle accommodates especially paintings + the nearby educative men & nature (children) museum (mensch & natur), where we were really often with our daughters when they were small
• MVG museum (public transportation) is the new home of the gold & silver show edelmetallmesse
• BMW museum ~ more pictures coming soon?
• bayerisches nationalmuseum (bavarian national museum), enjoy few pictures:

völkerkundemuseum (08/2016):

 myanmar

polynesia / micronesia

north america

africa

residenz (08/2016)
sooooo nice and so interesting. we have had a historical guided tour with friends, i liked most the proverbs our guide explained us like (in german, of course):

• auf der langen bank sitzen
• tafelsilber
• alles in butter
• usw

more pictures here.

munich's christmas markets ~ hot wine punch season opened :-)

there are many reasons why i like munich so much, its many beautiful christmas markets are one of them. please do not think it is because of the hot wine punch only :)

and yes, i'm visiting at least 2 more christmas markets next week, so i will probably upload 3 or 4 more pictures thereafter ...

christkindlmarkt rindermarkt

promenadeplatz

christkindlmarkt tollwood

 tollwood

 christkindlmarkt weißenburger platz / weissenburger

 medieval christkindlmarkt wittelsbacher platz

 good night, the medieval city will close its gates soon😄

 

 christkindlmarkt residence / residenz

 christkindlmarkt marienplatz

 christkindlmarkt rathaus (town hall inner yard)

christkindlmarkt pasing, the sleepy one :-)

chairs, chairs, chairs at #schwabinger christkindlmarkt this year

next xmas market in munich, inside the old city gate isartor, world's largest flaming punch bowl, cheers :-)

the isartor old city gate was first mentioned in 1337

 

more pictures: google album

xmas market, christkindlmarkt, weihnachtsmarkt

eof

lech walesa

i have met a great visionary 2day :)

former polish revolutionary leader of the movement solidarity / solidarnosc (which started in stettin / szczecin in 1980) and later polish president lech walesa hold a speach in the emperor's hall of  munich's residenz, the place where bavarian kings lived for thousands of years ...

lets share few notes, so u can create your own ideas abt the highly interesting evening ;-):

• faith, visions, freedom, solidarity, revolution, great sense of humor, nobel prize for peace
• the polish pope john paul ll was a major hope for poland and a force which has brought millions of polish people together and actually enabled the revolution ... 
• soviet union, communist party ... radish-like communists in eastern europe (only from outside red ;-) ... 
• helmut kohl, hans-dietrich gentscher, berlin wall, mikhail gorbachev ... btw all 'professional' politicians and other leaders/kings (both western and eastern) didnt believe the system change is possible/probable, theyve just rational counted the number of tanks, soldiers, rockets etc and compared that to walesa's vision of change ... thx goodness, all of them were wrong!!! even the so lauded gorbachev told german politicians only 1 month before the berlin wall has fallen forever, that they can start talking abt 'the wall' in 100 years. how wrong was he, my dear!
• egypt +  tunisia + arabic poverty & social disparity driven revolutions
• great chance 4 freedom + peaceful development in our generation without state boarders, badly needed consumers instead of enemies (a new era, isnt it?), globalization ... 
• grotesque western democracy, politicians led/driven not by visions but by television ... 
• common values, united europe led by germany (btw, in germany there isnt a single person who whould publicly speak abt leadership or even think abt stuff like that! at least ive never heard abt person/leader like that cos the hitler era collective guilt feeling/believes last still to heavily over germany!)
• even in western world there is soo much to do (so many jobs meanigful) like eg better multi-layer roads without crossroads and without traffic jams etc
• dont mix politics with religion, ...
• horrible classical music + yummy finger food + drinks ....

what abt my own resume? let's dream how the WORLD COULD LOOK LIKE and let's make that vision true. if people united cannot be defeated :-)

.... and much much more .... comimg soon or never ...

folks, pls don't worry abt my pictures quality, an other guest promised to send me few of his pictures which i will prolly post later on :-)

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here we go! lets switch 2 high quality pictures now (source/copyright by robert stefaniak, may 19th 2011, residence munich)

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#5 (there was some music as well :-)

#6 (giving advice 2 homo sapiens (via polish-german interpreters as well) how to create a better, free, peaceful, prosperous, fair, SOLIDARY WORLD!)