The writing prompts invite postcrossers to write about a different topic on their postcards’ messages every month. These are just suggestions though — if you already know what you want to write about, or the recipient gives you some pointers, that’s great too!
This month, our suggestion is all about museums. We love a good museum, where carefully curated collections and exhibitions contribute to scientific knowledge while sparking a universe of learning possibilities!
Do you have a favorite museum? Paulo and I like quirky museums, but our favorites so far (no surprise here!) are usually related with mail history.
In Lisbon, the Communications Museum has a wonderful exhibition where you can learn about the postal history of Portugal, from the first mail coaches to its present day modernization. There’s also an interesting section containing a recreation of a real post office, where you can pretend to be either a postal worker or a customer waiting to get some stamps! After so many years being on the customer side of the counter, it’s surprisingly fun to move behind the counter to do the job ourselves. Things look different from there!
So, what about your own country? Which national museum is your favorite? Which place should a postcrosser definitely visit if they find themselves in the area? We invite you to share your best museum tips on the postcards you send this month.
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If anyone should visit our area I would recommend the City of Alamo Museum. It is small, but has many displays about local historical events. And a permanent display of over 1500 Angels. At the moment it has a display of quilts, miniature sewing machines and irons used on clothing but not electric. There are even a few hand cranked sewing machines. .
We are a city of 18,000 citizens.
Enjoy the day!
Demaris
In Lisbon, I have a great memory of going to the Museu da Cidade and ending up partially having an impromptu tour with a worker who had been with the museum for years and was delighted to share stories about the museum and the city with our group! http://www.museudelisboa.pt/en.html
Closer to home, our favorite museum is The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas, which is "...the state-designated official historical center of the famed Texas Rangers law enforcement agency." We've visited a few times and enjoy learning so much about our State from the interesting exhibits.
https://www.imm-hamburg.de/international/en/
Cult status, especially in children, enjoy the dinosaur skeletons of the Natural History Museum: The Senckenberg Nature Museum presents one of the largest exhibitions of large-scale dinosaurs in Europe. A special treasure is the original of a petrified dinosaur with preserved, flaky skin.
and for under 18 year olds.
Wikipdia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Orsay
I've been to MANY wonderful museums in my time, but the little Doncaster Museum holds my heart dear!
There is a Museum of the Kunstkammer. It was invented by Peter 1. There are many unusual exhibits: costumes of the peoples of the world, unborn children in banks...interesting!
Not far from St. Petersburg is the city of Pushkin. It was named after the writer Alexander Pushkin. In Pushkin there is a Museum, a former Lyceum. There studied under A. Pushkin. Interesting Museum! Shown in the Lyceum rooms, where there were lectures, shows a room of high school students...hall, where passed balls!
And in my native village Rozhdestveno(Leningrad region, Gatchina district) there is a Museum-estate of Vladimir Nabokov(he was a writer and poet). Nabokov is known not only in Russia but also in America. You can see how Nabokov lived..
And in the village of Vyra(the same district and region) there is a Museum House Stationmaster. (The stationmaster is the one who gave people horses if they were tired.)This Museum is an ordinary house of the Russian man-caretaker. Before such people really existed! Alexander Pushkin wrote a story about this caretaker...Search the Internet! "Stationmaster." In the Museum-house you can see simple Russian rooms, furniture, economy.
The Somerset Museum in Taunton tells the history of the area especially The Battle of Sedgemoor with some fascinating exhibits.
I like it very much
Uah! Scary and weird!
Its very interactive but does require more than one day, but when you pay for one day it for the next 364 days.
1. Mercedes-Benz Museum with the first motor-car and the history of automobile building.
2. Porsche Museum with the history of Porsche cars
3. Staatsgalerie with its rich collection of masterworks dating from the fourteenth century to the present (new: "Love is in the Bin" von Banksy)
It's Europe's biggest culture festival with around 20 museums.
Admission is pretty cheap. Last year it was 7 € for the exhibitions and it was free for all the outdoor activities (stages and booths with food and merchandise).
And international I love the national postal in Washington DC ( right next to the union Station).
Admission is free. And when I went there a few years back you could get free postcards and free used stamps ( in case you want to start a collection).
http://www.goldmuseum.com.au/collection-search/?eHive_query=has_image%3Atrue+collection%3Afitzgerald
"There are over 30,000 postcards in the collection. Special features of the collection are World War One, Australian cards, postal history and the history of international tourism."
I want just say you this week end in France there is" Nuit des musées" and the museums are free acces.
It's amazing,no?
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