November Moods 23

Halosenniemi museum , Tuusula, Finland 

Photo Taneli Eskola, Finnish

 

Music Monday

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Violin Making Museum, Mittenwald, Grrmany

Sent by Hans from Kronshagen, Germany

Museums

 The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.

Sent by Meg from Castroville, Texas

National History Museum of Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Sent by Marco on 19 Mar, 2015 from Rotterdam

American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A.

Sent by Melodie on 12 May 2015 from New York

 

Museums

Mosel - Weinmuseum

Sent by Karl on 22 Jan, 2022 from Hamburg

The Dali Museum 

St. Petersburg, Florida U.S.A.

Sent by Maria on 25 Jan, 2015 from Cape Coral, Florida

 

Libraries

Library reading room in British Museum

The Reading Room stands at the heart of the Museum, in the centre of the Great Court. Completed in 1857, it was hailed as one of the great sights of London and became a world-famous centre of learning.

Sent by Ulrike on 18 Sep, 2020 from Eschwege, Germany

Old library of Ottobeuren Benedictine Abbey, Germany

Sent by Petra on 5 Oct, 2015 from Germany

 

Ukraine 🌻

Peace to Ukraine

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Local museum

Sent by Oleg on 12 Apr, 2015 from Krivoy Rog

Travel time 29 days

Belarus

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At the Belarusian State Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Lifestyle

Sent by Alla on 4 Oct 2014 from Minsk

Buildings

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Entrance to Xuanwu Lake Park through Xuanwu Gate, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Received on 28 May, 2019

Sent by Ashley (Wuhan, China)

 

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Vladivostok Fortress no. 7. 

Vladivostok Fortress is a system of fortifications built from 1889 to 1918 in Vladivostok, Russia, and the surrounding area.

Received on 13 Sep, 2021

Sent by Alexander (Vladivostok, Russia)

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The Catherine Palace is a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), 30 km south of St. Petersburg, Russia. It was the summer residence of the Russian tsars.

Received on 17 Mar, 2015

Sent by Anna, (Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Town Hall with museum, Kranj, Slovenia

Received on 6 Sep, 2021

Sent by Franci(Kranj, Slovenia

 

Multiview Monday

Germany

Black Forest

Sent by Zoran in Karlsruhe

on 25 Mar, 2020

travel time 8 days

distance travelled 1,732 km

received on 2 Apr, 2020 

Romania

The Village Museum, Bucharest, Romania

Sent by Daniela in Bucharest

on 23 Jul, 2019

travel time 11 days

distance travelled 2,046 km

received on 3 Aug, 2019 

Portugal

Sent by Ana in Oeiras

 on 9 Mar, 2020

travel time 14 days

distance travelled 3,408 km

received on 23 Mar, 2020 

Greetings from Mühlheim am Main

Sent by Daniel from Mühlheim 

Buildings

University of Applied Sciences

Kaiserslautern, Germany 

Sent by Sabine in Landau in der Pfalz, Germany

on 5 Mar, 2020

travel time 7 days

distance travelled 1,729 km

Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain 

Sent by Carmen in Mérida, Spain

 on 8 Sep, 2017

travel time 31 days

distance travelled 3,253 km

Museums

House of Jakovlev from the village of Klesheila 19th c
Kizhi Island, Onega Lake, Russia

Sent by Tatiana in Petrozavodsk, Russia
 on 6 Jan, 2017
travel time 20 days
distance travelled 647 km



Belarusian State Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in Ozertso village, Minsk region.

Sent by Galina in Minsk, Belarus
on 3 Sep, 2017
travel time 8 days
distance travelled 1,028 km

Rogatec, the largest open-air museum in Slovenia

Sent by Jozé in Slovenski Javomisk, Slovenia
 on 28 Oct, 2014
travel time 7 days
distance travelled 1,875 km

Buildings

Rolle Castle is a castle in the municipality of Rolle of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Sent by Gabriella and Werner in Zürich, Switzerland

 on 7 Feb, 2018

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 1,897 km

received on 14 Feb, 2018

 Crimea, Dacha Stamboli, Feodosia

The Ottoman-style Dacha Stamboli was once home to a wealthy tobacco merchant.

Sent by Natali in Vladivostok, Russia

 on 9 Oct, 2014

travel time 18 days

distance travelled 6,708 km

 received on 27 Oct, 2014

Lanyang Museum, Yilan, Taiwan

The museum was designed by Kris Yao to blend in with nature and inspired by local natural elements such as the cuesta, a rock-form commonly found along the northeast coast of Taiwan. At a distance, the building resembles a giant black rock, however up close the building is truly a unique design.

Sent by Stella in Kaohsiung,Taiwan

 on 7 Mar, 2016

travel time 17 days

distance travelled 8,197 km

 received on 24 Mar, 2016

Windmills

Windmill, Nazare, Portugal

Sent by Rosa Maria in Lisbon

on 28 Sep, 2019

travel time 16 days

distance travelled 3,386 km

Kinderdijk windmills, Netherlands, UNESCO WHS

Sent by Ad in Heeten

 on 21 Sep, 2018

travel time 5 days

distance travelled 1,476 km

Jalasjärvi Museum, Kurikka, Finland 

From me to Alisha in Hannibal, Missouri, U.S.A

on 9 Aug, 2019

travel time 14 days

distance travelled 7,191 km

Biomuseo. Panama City

Biomuseo. Panama City. Architect Frank Gehry

Sent by my son,  Panama City, Panama

January 2019

Biomuseo is a museum focused on the natural history of Panama and it was designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry. This is Gehry's first design for Latin America. The design was conceived in 1999 and the museum opened in October 2014.

 More his buildings here

Art and Architechture

Martiros Sarian (1880 -1972)  Night landscape. 1911, Sarian family collection, Yerevan. Martiros Sarian House-museum

Martiros Saryan was an Armenian painter, the founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting. Martiros Saryan was an Armenian painter, the founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting. He spent most of his career painting scenes, especially landscapes, of his adopted homeland, often employing the Impressionist technique of using vivid, dappled colour to capture the effects of light. He also painted many floral still lifes as well as portraits. 

More here

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travel time 5 days

distance travelled 2,915 km

received on 15 Jan, 2018

sent by Alex in Yerevan 

Gol Stave Church from about 1200, Norwegian Museum of Cultural History

Gol StaveChurch was built around 1200, and it is one of less than 30 remaining stavechurches in Norway. The church was built during the age of Catholicism in Norway. After the Reformation in1537, it was altered over time in order to accommodate the Lutheran liturgy. The term“stave church” refers to the staves, or posts, that support the roof. 

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travel time 6 days

distance travelled 650 km

 received on 15 Jan, 2018

sent by Linda

Museums

Museum Tinguely, Basel. Switzerland
The Museum Tinguely is an art museum in Basel, Switzerland that contains a permanent exhibition of the works of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely.

Comes from Claudia in Basel.

Distance: 1,906 km
Travel time: 9 days

Antoine Rredock architect, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Canada

Antoine Predock is an American architect, landscape architect and interior designer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since 1967. The Museum’s Architectural Review Committee chose his design because they believed it "could fulfill the objectives for an inspirational building that achieves a complexity relating to the diversity of human experience."

From Cynthia, in Hamilton, Canada
Distance: 6,371 km
Travel time: 6 days

The Bonnefantenmuseum is a museum of fine art in Maastricht, Netherlands. The building was designed by the Italian architect Aldo Rossi. With its rocket-shaped cupola overlooking the river Maas, it is one of Maastricht's most prominent modern buildings.

From Gemma, Netherlands
Distance: 1,510 km
Travel time: 5 days

The Museu Paulista of the University of São Paulo (commonly known as Museu do Ipiranga) is a Brazilian history museum located in the city of São Paulo. It contains a huge collection of furniture, documents and historically relevant artwork, especially relating to the Brazilian Empire era.The building was designed by Italian architect Tommaso Gaudenzio Bezzi in 1884

From Antonio, São  Paulo, Brazil

Distance: 11,477 km

Travel time: 20 days

Rio 2016 Olympics

Knight Equipments

The State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg

These armor postcards are direct swaps from Nikolai  in St. Petersburg

Tournament (parade) armor. Ca. 1560 - 70

Gothic armor  1470 - 80

Brestplate of  an armor and Bourgignotte helmet

Knight Alonso and  his strong and obedient Alecto. On tournaments and battles the horse must carry and respond to a Knight's commands from leg pressure rather than reins. The Knight needs his hands to use his weapons and hold the shield

Battle for the throne and glory .  

Rohan Stables - Finland  - Kingdom without The Ruler.

Inhotim, Art Wonderland

The Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil

The Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim is a museum and contemporary art museum located in Brumadinho in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, founded by former mining magnate Bernardo Paz.

The world's largest open-air contemporary art museum, and greater Belo Horizonte's standout attraction, this sprawling complex of gardens dotted with 21 world-class modern art galleries and numerous outdoor sculptures lies 50km west of the city, near the town of Brumadinho. Much of the international artwork on view is monumental in size, with galleries custom-built to display it. The constantly expanding gardens, opened to the public in 2006, boast over 4000 different species of plants (including one of the world's most extensive collections of palm trees) and lakes with swans.

This card comes from Alice in Barbacena, Brazil
Distance: 10,941 km
Travel time: 16 days

Take a walk to this amazing art wonderland.

Stilt houses

Stilt houses on Lake Constance ( Bodensee ) in Unteruhldingen, Germany

Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen (German for 'Stilt house museum') is an archaeological open-air museum on Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Unteruhldingen, Germany, consisting of reconstructions of stilt houses or lake dwellings from the Neolithic Stone Age and Bronze Age.

Comes from Marion in Butzbach, Germany

Distance: 1,580 km

Travel time: 9 days