Create 2010 winners guest blog about their travels to Munich.
This trip is generously sponsored by BMW.
Day three: Mo’ museums, a culture of cars?, the palace, and the streets of Munich
Choo-choo train going nowhere. But we are headed to the…
Deutsches Museum… Germans take their tech seriously
Finally a day’s worth of tourist attractions! First up, we headed to the Deutsches Museum which is…
…which is the world’s largest museum of technology and science. In retrospect, the scale of the museum was absolutely mind-blowing, easily putting to shame our local Science Center and Discovery Centre combined.
It’s full of good ol’ steam engines, trains, horse-drawn carriages, hands-on experiments that went “beep beep beep” and there’s even a fighter plane suspended from wires!
It was expected that Germany, being one of the world's leaders in the automotive industry, should have a few wonderful machineries to showcase, but it was hard for us to imagine a nation dedicating an entire museum to exhibit its machines rather than its cultural heritage. And it came as a complete surprise that for centuries the Germans have kept and protected these original machines through ages of war and conflict! Tell me. Where else in the world can you find such love for machines?
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Maybe one day our children’s grandchildren will see BMW’s Vision in these halls!
Nymphenburg Palace… time after time, king after king
It’s like an unwritten rule that most royal palaces must be ornately decorated and in some cases, go over the top with the decor. This palace isn’t any different. It’s a smorgasbord of kingly tastes as defined by the kings and their succeeding heirs.
In fact, it’s… you know what, we think we’ll just shut up now:
Nymphenburg Palace is a giant bedroom for the Bavarian king to spend his summer vacation. At different periods, the rooms were decorated in different styles, be it French or Italian, according to the tastes of various kings. And the harmonious fusion of these disparate cultures forms the unique identity of Nymphenburg Palace. There is also a huge backyard which serves as a royal hunting ground. You can still find animals there but of course no hunting is allowed.
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Munich City Centre… detour!
We had a little bit of time so we hiked over to Munich’s city centre. This place was bombed to rubble and splinters back in World War II.
It was resurrected after WWII but it looked spectacular nevertheless. There are three churches, including a cathedral, all constructed by different kings at different periods which is obvious from their unique architectural styles.
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The rent for shops here is as cheap as €15 per YEAR but the goods sold are actually more expensive. What a bunch of !#@$%.
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We think the streets are best seen and not described. So check out more photos at wanderlust (scroll down to the bottom).
Growling stomachs should go to:
Restaurant Metzgerwirt for deer meat and Wirtshaus zur Brezn for…
…the "Bavarian Specialties" section of the restaurants' menus. The white sausages and other foods were just so awesome that I would not mind to try another round of "Bavarian specialties" again
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About Letters from Munich series…
These blog posts are written by our Create2010 winners: Great Idea Association. It charts their journey as they reap their reward: an all-expenses paid trip to BMW Welt in Munich.
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