The Musical Instrument Museum! The Hofberg Imperial palace houses a large collection of antique music instruments. Its one of the museums our membership gets us into.Here is Elora checking out a gold trimmed piano that Mozart...
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We have a free access to several museums in Vienna thanks to our Kunsthistorische Museum membership. The national art history museum is so large that you can’t really see it all in a week. So we just go and visit a section...
We took Elora to the Schmetterlinghaus (Butterfly House), a greenhouse filled with butterflies behind the Hofburg Imperial Palace. The Vienna royalty must have had a fondness for animals, as the palace Schoenbrunn has the...
There was a Van Gogh exhibit here that I really wanted to go to, but I kept forgetting until the last day… so off we went to the Albertina to see it and there was a huge crowd. It was awesome though, because they have to...
Here we are at the Kunst Historisches Museum, which is a huge art history museum. We bought a year membership which gets us into like, 7 different museums… Elora loves to look at paintings and statues, but only for a short...
We went to the Hofburg, which is the Parliment building in Vienna andthe former Imperial palace of the Hofburg Empire, which few peopleknow extended as far as Mexico.There are tons of amazing statues all around the roof of the...
A week in Munich! And 10 lifetimes worth of sights seen! We passed by the imposing, yet grand Castle Ehrenberg as we sojourned along the Autobahn toward Garmisch, on a return trip from the Bavarian King’s castle...
We spent a few days exploring the area around the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. The building is absolutely beautiful, but unfortunately Winter is a terrible time of year to take a nice picture of the outside… the...
We wanted to go to a museum we thought Elora would enjoy, so we told her we were going to a museum about boats and pirates – the maritime museum. She thought it was great! Especially the cannons, which she played with for...
More Barcelona stories… We decided to go to the aquarium because there was a sign that said something like “you haven’t experienced Barcelona until you have seen L’Aquarium!” With advertising like...