Monday Museum

US-9720238. Egyptian statues. British Museum, London, United Kingdom

Sent by Danielle from Austn. Texas

Some Statues

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Franz Kafka monument Prague, Czech Republic

Sent by Maria from Prague

Policeman statue

 Market Square Oulu, Finland 

Toripolliisi is a Bronze sculpture located at the market square in Oulu, Finland. 

It was made by sculptor Kaarlo Mikkonen in 1987. 

Sent by my sister

Statue of Liberty

Liberty Island, New York City, New York, U.S.A

Sent by Tanja from her trip to New York 

 Recording Angel Sculpture By Lorado Taft

Waupun, Wisconsin, 

Sent by Suzanne from Wisconsin

 

Sunday Church

Built in 1765, Lappajärvi Church is located in Kirkkoniemi, in Lappajärvi,Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland . An alms box figure in the shape of a pauper boy, which stands next to the bell tower, was renovated in 1841. 

Photo Kalervo Puskala Finland 

Smile on Saturday

Greetings from Bremen, Germany

Bremen Town Musicans

Sent by Ute on 8 Jul, 2018 from Bremen

China

Snow on the bridge

Hangzhou Broken Bridge, China

Lingering snow on the Broken Bridge

Sent by on 17 Jul 2016 from Hangzhou.

China, "Stone Elephant Walk", These impressive stone statues line the entrance to one of Nanjing’s UNESCO World Heritage Sights, the Ming Tombs, the resting place of the first emperor and empress of the Ming Dynasty.

Sent by Yaozheng on 3 May, 2015 from Nanjing, China

GuGong, Forbidden City, China. UNESCO World Heritage

Sent by Liuija on 6 Jan, 2021 from Chongqing, China

Great Wall of China in sunrise

Sent by Gin on 13 Mar, 2021 from Foshang, China

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Stars and Stripes

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Geneseo, New York

Geneseo is a town in Livingston County in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. 

The Bear Fountain sits in the center of Geneseo village's Main Street. In this picture, it is decorated with flags for Memorial Day. The village and town are known today mainly as the home of the State University of New York at Geneseo.

Receive on 14 Jun, 2018

Sent by David (Geneseo, U.S.A.)

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Iwo Jima Statue

The United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) is a national memorial located in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States. The war memorial was inspired by the iconic 1945 photograph of six Marines raising a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

Received on 8 Aug, 2013 

Sent by Claire ( Las Vegas, Nevada)

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Boston old State House adorned for the centennial celebrations of 1876. The Old State House is a historic building in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1713, it was the seat of the Massachusetts General Court until 1798. It is one of the oldest public buildings in the United States.

Received on 29 Apr, 2019

Sent by James (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 

Statues

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Armação dos Búzios. Brasil .

 The statue of Brigitte Bardot placed the Buzios coastal promenade called Orla Bardot.

Sent by Fernando in São Paulo

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Arch of Augustus and  Augustus statue Fano Italy

The Arch of Augustus in Fano is a city gate in the form of a triumphal arch with three vaults. 

Sent by Chiara in Fano

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 Ulyanovsk, Russia.  Monument of N. M. Karamzin.

Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin ( 1766 – 1826) was a Russian Imperial historian, romantic writer, poet and critic. He is best remembered for his fundamental History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history.

Sent by Nika in Ulyanovsk

Forbidden City - The Hall of Supreme Harmony. UNESCO World Heritage, China

Sent by Rach on 7 Oct, 2016 from Hong Kong

Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz

Sent by Paula on 8 Jul, 2018 from Mainz

Statue of Pythagoras on Samos island, Greece

Randoms

Picked from my card pile with the help of random generator :)

In the Train with Uncle Mac - A Ladybird Book by derek McCulloch, illudtrstion W.C. Watson

sent by Ske in Rotterdam,Netherlands

sent on 16 Jul, 2014

travel time 8 days

distance travelled 1,581 km

Postcardbook: Harmony. Photo Udo Hafke

Sent by Katja in Munich, Germany

sent on 5 Feb, 2014

travel time 5 days

distance travelled 1,752 km

Statue of Pythagoras, Pythagorion, Samos

Sent by my daughter and her family on their vacation to Samos in Greece, July 2019

Art by Ivan Shishkin, 1832-1898 (Russian)

Sent by Augustus in Hong Kong

sent on 10 Jan, 2020

travel time 21 days

distance travelled 7,928 km

Turkey

 Canakkale, Turkey

The Trojan horse that appeared in the Brad Pitt movie Troy, now in the town of Çanakkale.

Sent by Elif in Darica

sent on 2 Oct, 2016

travel time 45 days

Çengelköy, Kuleli Military High School, Istanbul, Turkey 

sent by Idil in Istanbul

sent on 14 Jun, 2016

travel time 21 days

Temple of Hadrian is one of the best preserved and most beautiful structures on Curetes Street in Ephesus. It was built before 138 A.D by P. Quintilius and was dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, who came to visit the city from Athens in 128 A.D

Sent by Sibel in Istanbul

sent on 8 Sep, 2017

travel time 31 days

Statues

King Mycerinus (Mykerinos, Menakaure) between Goddess Hathor and the Goddess of a Province, Egypt.The statue was found in the valley temple of Mycerinus at Giza. 

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travel time 45 days

distance travelled 3,693 km

sent by Rouwaida from Cairo 

Menkaure was an ancient Egyptian king (pharaoh) of the 4th dynasty during the Old Kingdomis , also well known under his Hellenized name Mykerinos.  Menkaure became famous for his tomb, the Pyramid of Menkaure, at Giza and his beautiful statue triads, showing the king together with his wives Rekhetre and Khamerernebty

  

Reliquary Bust of Saint Mabille. 14th. century, Musee Of Cluny. Paris

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travel time 9 days

distance travelled 1,951 km.

sent by Thierry from Paris

Statue of Hittite King Suppiluliuma  II, Hatay

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New Hatay Archeology Museum, Turkey

sent by Erdem Deniz from Antalya

Suppiluliuma II was the last known king of the New Kingdom of the Hittite Empire, ruling c. 1207–1178 BC.  The statue was found in 2011 excavation in Tell Tayinat. Dr. Harrison who is head of the excavation said the statue was probably damaged and buried during an Assyrian invasion of Suppiluliuma’s kingdom in 858 B.C. Tell Tayinat, a large low-lying mound, is located 35 kilometres east of Antakya,  along the Antakya-Aleppo road.

Temples

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Kingdom of Cambodia, Statue Angkor Wat Temple

travel time 5 days

distance travelled 1,341 km

sent by Mandy,  Evessen, Germany

The statue of the mythical Naga, the seven-headed serpent protector of Buddha, and the statue of the guardian lion. Angkor Wat is a temple complex in Cambodia and one of the largest religious monuments in the world.  Originally constructed as a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Vishnu for the Khmer Empire, it was gradually transformed into a Buddhist temple towards the end of the 12th century.  It has become a symbol of Cambodia appearing on its national flag, and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors.

Angkor Wat is UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Byōdō-in,  Buddhist temple, Uji, Kyoto.
travel time 13 days
distance travelled 7,618 km
sent by Fumiko, Saga, Japan

Byōdō-in is Kyoto's UNESCO World Heritage Site

Berlin

Berlin – Oberbaum Bridge

From Marion in Berlin, Germany 

Distance: 1,242 km

Travel time: 6 days

The Oberbaum Bridge is a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin's River Spree, considered one of the city's landmarks. It links Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, former boroughs that were divided by the Berlin Wall, and has become an important symbol of Berlin’s unity.

The Victory Column with Victoria, the Goddess of Victory in the centre of the Tiergarten is one of Berlin's most famous landmarks and a popular tourist spot.

Sebt by Kerstin in Nuremberg, Germany

Distance: 1,620 km

Travel time: 21 days

Greetings and statues

Postallove, Greetings from U.S.A.

From Nicole, Cologne, Germany

Distance: 1,595 km

Travel time: 9 days

The Statue of Liberty  is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was built by Gustave Eiffel and dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France. 

View of Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A

 Direct swap from Redonna in Birmingham, Alabama

The Vulcan statue is the largest cast iron statue in the world, and is the city symbol of Birmingham, 

Alabama, reflecting its roots in the iron and steel industry. The 56-foot (17 m) tall statue depicts the Roman god Vulcan, god of the fire and forge. It was created as Birmingham's entry for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 World's Fair) in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Harbor of Rhodos

Mandraki is one of the three harbors in Rhodes. It is famous, because it is believed that the great statue of Colossus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, once stood at the harbor entrance.  Nowadays the sculptures of Rhodian Deer, a stag and a doe, stand on slim columns on either side of the harbor where the Colossus possibly once stood.

The Fort of Saint Nicholas guards the Mandraki harbour.

The lighthouse dates back to 1863, during the Ottoman period, it was reactivated in 2007.

Prague Astronomical Clock

 The Prague astronomical clock is a medieval astronomical clock located in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still operating.

The four figures flanking the clock are set in motion at the hour, these represent four things that were despised at the time of the clock's making. Vanity, represented by a figure admiring himself in a mirror. Next, the miser holding a bag of gold represents greed or usury. Across the clock stands Death, a skeleton that strikes the time upon the hour. Finally there is a figure representing lust and earthly pleasures. On the hour, the skeleton rings the bell and immediately all other figures shake their heads, side to side, signifying their unreadiness "to go."

There is also a presentation of statues of the Apostles at the doorways above the clock, with all twelve presented every hour. Wikipedia

Raatihuoneen seinässä on yksi Prahan suosituimmista nähtävyyksistä, astronominen kello. Sen rakensivat vuonna 1410 kellosepät Jan Sindel ja Mikulas Kadanilainen. Kello kertoo ajan lisäksi mm. auringon ja kuun sijainnin. Tasatunnein 12 apostolia vaeltaa kellossa olevan luukun aukosta ja kuolemaa kuvaava luuranko soittaa kelloa ja kääntää tiimalasin alassuin. Lopuksi kukko heiluttaa siipiään ja kiekaisee ylimmässä syvennyksessä luukkujen sulkeutuessa. Wikipedia

Distance: 1,533 km

Travel time: 333 days

From Marketa in Pilsen, Czech Republic

The Statue of Constantine

Rome - Fragment of the Statue of Constantine, Pal. dei Conservatori

Photo: Giancarlo Gasponi

The Colossus of Constantine was a colossal acrolithic statue of the late Roman emperor Constantine the Great (c. 280–337) that once occupied the west apse of the Basilica of Maxentius near the Forum Romanum in Rome. Portions of the Colossus now reside in the Courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori of the Musei Capitolini, on the Capitoline Hill, above the west end of the Forum.

The great head, arms and legs of the Colossus were carved from white marble, while the rest of the body consisted of a brick core and wooden framework, possibly covered with gilded bronze. Judging by the size of the remaining pieces, the seated, enthroned figure would have been about 12 meters (40 feet) high. The head is about 2½ meters high and each foot is over 2 meters long. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo dei Conservatori on rakennus Piazza del Campidoglion laidalla Capitoliumissa Roomassa. Nykyään se on yksi Musei Capitolinin kolmesta rakennuksesta. Palazzo dei Conservatori rakennettiin 1300-luvulla. Palatsin alakerroksessa toimi ammattikuntien toimipaikka ja oikeusistuin. 1520-luvulla palatsi uudistettiin Piazza del Campidoglion ohella Michelangelon suunnitelmien mukaisesti. Palatsiin on sijoitettu paavi Sixtus IV:n vuonna 1471 perustama taidekokoelma.

Museon kokoelma on karttunut ajan myötä. Paikkansa museosta ovat saaneet Konstantinus Suuren pää ja käsi, jotka ovat säilyneet osat antiikin aikaisesta, yli 10 metriä korkeasta veistoksesta, sekä Romulusta ja Remusta imettävä Capitoliumin naarassusi. Myös aiemmin palatsin edustan aukiolla sijainnut alkuperäinen Marcus Aureliuksen ratsastajapatsas on löytänyt paikkansa Palazzo dei Conservatorista. (Wikipedia)

Received from Liliya, St.Petersburg, Russia

Distance: 538 km

Travel time: 10 days

Dresden and St. Petersburg

 Frauenkirche, Dresden, Germany

The church was destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II. The remaining ruins were left for 50 years as a war memorial, following decisions of local East German leaders. The church was rebuilt after the reunification of Germany, starting in 1994. The reconstruction of its exterior was completed in 2004, and the interior in 2005.  

Received today from akli75, Leipzig, Gemany

Thank you!

A row of  29 lions.

 Lions near the Country House of Kushelev-Bezborodko, St Petersburg, Russia.  

Received today from Irinkins, Sosnovy Bor, Russia.

Thank you!

Belarus

Received on: 22 May, 2013
Distance: 1,017 km (632 miles)
Travel time: 6 days

Olia from Minsk sent this postcard which shows two famous Belarusian people - Ragneda and Izyaslav. According to chronicles, Zaslawye was founded in 985 by Vladimir the Great who sent his wife Rogneda  to live here with their son Izyaslav of Polotsk. The town's current name derives from Izyaslav's name.

Received on: 27 Jun, 2013
Distance: 1,017 km (632 miles)
Travel time: 9 days
Dasha also lives in Minsk and her card is showing panorama of the upper town and the river Svisloch. Dasha likes her beautiful, clean and green city very much.

 Received on: 7 Aug, 2013

Distance: 867 km (539 miles)
Travel time: 8 days

From Anastasia I received this beautiful art card. The Belarusian painter Apalinary Harauski ( 1833 - 1900 ) painted  Repentant Mary Magdalene in 1861.  The painting is to be seen in National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus.

Fountain Friendship of Nations

Kansojen ystävyys-suihkulähde

5.9.1988 from my sister.

The People’s Friendship Fountain (also known as Friendship of Nations) on Moscow features 16 gilded statues of maidens in their national costumes, representing all the Soviet Union Republics. The fountain is framed by an octahedral bowl of red granite with a surface area of 4,000 square meters. The fountain is serviced by a complex system of eight powerful pumps that can shoot 1,200 liters of

water from 800 jets to the height of 24 meters per second.

Rizal Park, Manila, Filippiinit

Recieved: 30 Nov, 2012
Distance: 9,008 km ( 5,597 miles )
Travel time: 12 days

Rizal Park Manila
Monument of National Hero
Dr. Jose P. Rizal

Thank you Annie!

The Rizal Monument is a memorial monument in Rizal Park in Manila
 it is dedicated to Jose Rizal, patriot and martyr.
b. June 19, 1861, in the town of Calamba, Laguna
d. December 30, 1896  ( aged 35 ) Bagumbayan, Manila



Jose Rizal oli patriootti ja  kansallissankari.  Hänestä kerrotaan paljon tarinoita, jotka esittävät hänet lukuisia kieliä osaavana yleisnerona. Hän opiskeli euroopassa lääketiedettä ja harrasti runoutta ja kuvataiteita. Hän kirjoitti mm. maan kansallisrunon Mi Último Adiós eli viimeiset jäähyväiset.
Vaikka Rizal oli aika maltillinen, hän onnistui kuitenkin ärsyttämään espanjalaisia siirtomaaherroja ja hankkimaan itselleen kuolemantuomion.  Ennen teloitustaan hän jättää jäähyväiset isänmaalleen, läheisilleen ja maailmalle runolla, joka päättyy sanoihin:  Morir es descansar - kuolema on lepo.

About Jose Rizal in English here




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