#Landesmuseum

[martynawojcik]

Happy Easter / Wesołych Świąt

SERIES OF ILLUSTRATIONS - POSTCARDS - LANDESMUSEUM WURTTEMBERG

[fading-pictures]

gemstones.

[typoramablog]

Sneak peek vom Landesmuseum Zürich, wo eine unserer Druckpressen in der nächsten Ausstellung zu sehen sein wird. #dinglerpresse #kniehebelpresse #landesmuseum #zürich #aufbau #buchdruck #typorama #bischofszell #thurgau #schweiz #switzerland (hier: Landesmuseum Zürich) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpSip4OIfGt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hansdurrer]

Zurich, Switzerland, 22 November 2020

[ineedmoreties]

Textures at Landesmuseum Zürich #zurich #züri #zürich #zuerich #switzerland #schweiz #landesmuseum #landesmuseumzürich #primitiveart #art #abtract (em Landesmuseum Zürich) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoxS8U9sFOC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lionofchaeronea]

Times of Day: Evening, Caspar David Friedrich, 1821-22

[fashionsfromhistory]

Robe à l'anglaise

c.1780

Germany

Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Oldenburg

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Trier Gold Hoard

The 'Trier Gold Hoard' was the largest Roman gold hoard ever discovered.

Comprising of 2516 gold coins weighing 18.5kg, found in Trier, Germany, in September 1993 during construction works nearly 1800 years after it was hidden.

The discovery of the Gold Hoard in Trier in 1993 caused quite a sensation.

On 9 September 1993, an excavator unearthed and ripped apart a bronze cauldron during excavations for an underground parking garage.

Part of cauldron and some coins went to a dump site, initially unnoticed. After the first coins were detected at the excavation site, treasure hunters also began to search the earth at the dump site.

An amateur archaeologist, Erich Eixner, went back to the excavation site at night and found the larger part of the bronze cauldron, containing 560 coins and an additional lump of 1500 coins, using his metal detector.

He informed the authorities of his discovery and received about 20,000 DM, a fraction of the estimated worth.

Greater inspection revealed that it was not simply someone's personal fortune but most likely an official treasury.

Treasury had been carefully administered and had grown over time. Hoard equated to the annual salary of around 130 Roman soldiers.

The aurei (gold coins) feature a total of 27 emperors, empresses and members of the imperial family, and some are still considered unique to this day.

According to researchers, the hoard was hidden for the first time in 167 AD, probably because of the Antonine Plague. 

The last time it was probably buried in a cellar during civil war while Augusta Treverorum was beleaguered by Clodius Albinus, since latest coins were struck in 196 AD under Septimius Severus.

Clodius Albinus had caused a revolt against Emperor Septimius Severus when he appointed his son Caracalla as successor to the throne instead of Albinus.

The former administrator of the hoard presumably took the knowledge of the secret stash with him to grave.

The earliest coins in the hoard were minted 63 AD, during the reign of Nero.

Around 99% of the coins were minted before 167 AD. Only 6 coins were struck between 193-196 AD.

Coins weigh between 5.8-7.6 grams.

40 Roman emperors and their relatives are depicted on the coins. Total number of coins originally in the bronze cauldron is estimated to be 2650.

Today, this unique ensemble is exhibited in the coin collection at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier.

The state museum is among the largest archaeological museums in Germany and displays a total of 12,000 coins in its exhibition.

In addition to archaeological finds, the Gold Hoard presentation room also provides extensive information on the emergence of the monetary system, and how ancient, medieval and modern money has been produced.

[tragediambulante]

L'Inspiration du poète, Nicolas Poussin, 1628

[arthistoryanimalia]

It’s #InternationalPolarBearDay! #DYK Polar Bears are the biggest, most aquatic, and most carnivorous of the world’s 8 living bear species?

Polar bear by Christian Wilhelm Kehrer (German, 1775-1869), 1820, oil on canvas. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.

[crimsonimpasto]

Jacob Philipp Hackert, Aeneas and Dido Flee the Storm into a Grotto, c. 1800

[rosewind2007]

Saw these Roman mask helmets and thought of SecUnits:

[ID: description from museum reads: “Mask helmets from Baden-Württemberg: They were not worn in battle, but by Roman cavalry soldiers at parades and tournaments. These tournaments and parades seem to have been instituted under Emperor Hadrian (117-138 n. BC)”/end ID]

From: twitter

Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg

[yohannahgoldkamp]

I like Cafeteria. They have olives and coffee.

[underthewingsofthblackeagle]

Some Glimpses from Germany for your Weekend :)

The Nebra Sky Disk, Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. (1600 BCE) 

The oldest concrete depiction of cosmic phenomena worldwide.

Halle State Museum of Prehistory.

[greenbagjosh]

24 July 1998 - funny hat day in Zürich near Central, a ride on the roller slide and I need a new camera :(

 An essay I wrote about 24th July 1998, originally on 24th July 2019.  

Hi everyone How is summer going so far?  The last couple of days the temperature dropped to the low 90's and a nice northern wind.  For this time of year, that is good.

It has been 21 (gasp!) years since I made the weekend tour of Munich-Zurich-Chiasso (TI)-Milan-Bolzano-Munich.  The 24th July 1998 in particular is that day I made the selfie at the ETH Zürich just outside the Clausiusbar Restaurant on the Tannenstrasse across from the university hospital building (https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m6!1e1!3m4...)(my camera was on a minitripod on a concrete ledge next to the stairs to the “TAN” building 1, noted with the blue “1” sign.  I was wearing my floppy cloth red-white-green striped top-hat).  

Today I am not going to exactly tell you what I did twenty years ago, as that is not the purpose of this post, or the ones for Thursday and Friday.  It is more of an epilogue as to what has happened since the actual events that took place.

Some thoughts I had from that time, include how much Europe has changed since that weekend, especially since many nations switched to the Euro but Switzerland and Liechtenstein (and also Campione near Lugano) did not. ��One thing that has changed or is in the process of changing, is the speed at which trains will travel between Munich and Lindau on Lake Constance.  Prior to June 2019, the section between Geltendorf and Lindau Hbf, was unelectrified, and as such, was limited to diesel traction and around 100 mph.  Deutsche Bahn has strived to improve travel between Munich and Zürich, with "ABS 48" (ABS:  Ausbaustrecke - extension section), particularly in the Ostallgäu, the region kind of between Munich, Ulm and Lindau just north of the Bavarian Alps.  Basically it is setting up the 15 kV / 16.7 Hz catenary between Geltendorf and Lindau Hbf, plus upgrading the tracks between Buchloe and Hergatz.  More about it at www.abs48.com, you may need to use a translator as there is no known English page within that site.  Maybe at some point, there could be another extension from Buchloe/Memmingen to Kaufbeueren and Füssen - you might know the latter town as the home of the Neuschwanstein Castle.  Anyway, the works should be completed by December 2020, and travel between Munich and Lindau should be cut by at least a half hour, and Munich to Zürich no more than 3 3/4 hours including the direction change at Lindau.  Switzerland is part of the Schengen area, so stops at St. Margarethen (SG), border with Austria, would be relatively short, if only to drop off and pick up any essential rail staff, maybe there would be a random passport check.  

I may have told you about my journey on the S-10 from Zürich HB to Üetliberg via Triemli.  This was after I visited the Swiss National Museum, the ETH Zürich selfie moment and side trip to Stettbach to see the "banale" design of that station.  I could not do the same journey today, exactly as I did in 1998, owing to the fact that from Zürich HB to Selnau, the underground section between those two stations on both tracks, is under refurbishment until the end of August of this year.  Both stations are 30 years old this year, and the former ground-level Selnau station that I remember from the mid-1970s, has long since been demolished.  The new Selnau station has sort of a distinction, that it was constructed below the base of the River Sihl.  Every time I look at the north exit at Sihlstrasse, it never ceases to amaze me, that the escalator goes very deep underground, even deeper than the Sihl itself.  What else is around the Selnau station?   Immediately at Selnau there is "Museum Haus Konstruktiv", which contains artwork similar to what you might see at the Helmhaus towards Bellevueplatz and Stadelhofen station, as well as at the former arsenal at Rapperswil (SG), mainly modern art.   Next door is a public natatorium (indoor swimming pool), and at the south end is the stock exchange - you cannot miss it, as it has a big "BÖRSE" lettering on the side of the building.  However for many years I was unable to find it, until December 2016.  I guess I did not know in earlier visits, to look for the southern exit of Selnau station.

Back in Munich, in particular the Schneider Bräuhaus branch of the Stadtsparkasse München, a five minute walk from Marienplatz and also five minutes from the original Hofbräuhaus, was that in the 1990s, some ATMs would dispense Swiss Francs and Austrian Schilling.  The Austrian ATM would give 100 and 500 Schilling ($8 and $40, respectively) notes and the Swiss ATM would give 50 Francs.  In 1997 and 1998 this was very convenient.  This all changed by January 1999, when the Euro was pegged to the Deutsche Mark at about 1 EUR = 1.95583 Mark.  When I returned on Thursday 7th September 2000 to try to withdraw Swiss Francs as I would be staying a few days later at Lausanne, Zürich and Lugano, I found that the Swiss ATM had been converted to an ATM that gave out Spanish Pesetas.  But since January 2002, the foreign currency ATMs at that branch have disappeared, and even then, the Swiss ATMs would have been obsolete anyway since many places in Switzerland will accept Euro notes, sometimes coins as well.

One thing that has not changed, is that Street Parade, held every year on the second Saturday of August, is the high-occupancy weekend during the summer.  The mauve-colored youth hostel on Mutschellenstrasse, in the Wollishofen district, south of Bahnhof Enge, books up solid by early June, so it is always wise to book ahead.  Otherwise you will have to budget rail travel time to and from wherever you manage to book a room for the Street Parade weekend.  Also, even if you do manage to book a room at the Zürich youth hostel, public transit can be a challenge from 11 AM to midnight of the Street Parade day.  Anything north of Tunnelstrasse will be blocked off, and the Line 7 tram that usually goes past Hauptbahnhof, will travel for part of the Line 8 tram by Selnau station, south end just right at the Stock Exchange front door.  So if you are for example going from HB or Central at the northern end of Niederdorferstrasse, to the hostel, you will have to likely find a way to the south exit of Selnau station and take the Line 7 from that tram stop past Bahnhof Enge.  From Enge to Wollishofen, the route is as normal but you will have to deal with increased ridership.  Most of the rest of the year, line 7 is not as crowded.

One other thing that has not changed, and I hope it will not, is that the day pass, is valid for a full 24 hours after purchase.  In general, the day pass costs only twice as much as a single fare, to get it at a vending machine, you would need to pick the single fare, and then hit the button with two arrows going in opposite directions, and that would be it.  Depending on the time, a nighttime supplement may be required.  The 24 hour validity is supposed to eliminate the need for an extra ticket in the morning.  In my case, the full 24 hours might not be used, as I would be there from 12 PM on the 24th to about 8:30 AM on the 25th, so maybe 20 1/2 hours in total.  Not too bad.    

And what is for tomorrow?  I can give kind of an overview of the difference between the old Gotthard rail tunnel and the new Base Tunnel that opened in December 2016, and kind of an insight as to why the Base Tunnel exists and why it is important to at least know of its existence.  The Ceneri tunnel between Giubiasco and Lugano is not quite complete, it is expected to open in December 2020, so between Bodio and Chiasso, there is no noticeable difference in travel time for now.  Likewise the time between Chiasso and Milan remains essentially the same between 1998 and 2019, barring any recent engineering works.

Hope you found these reflections interesting.  24th to 26th July 1998 still remains the most memorable weekend in my memory.  Hope you also have agreeable weather.

[manuelamordhorst]

Tipp: Impressionismus im Norden - Hannover

22. November 2024 bis zum 4. Mai 2025 im Landesmuseum Hannover Wie ein frischer Wind wehte der Impressionismus seit den 1860er Jahren von Frankreich über den ganzen Kontinent – und wirbelte die Kunstwelt des europäischen Nordens auf. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem niederländischen Museum Singer Laren und dem Museum Kunst der Westküste Alkersum/Föhr zeigt das Landesmuseum Hannover, wie die Eigenheiten…