Monday, April 17, 2006

Muenchen


We left for Muenchen (Munich) at about 8:50 Saturday morning. There was a soccer match going on there, so a lot of people were headed into town. We stayed at an Australian hostel called Wombat. It had an atrium in the center.



Then we went to the Pinakothek die Moderne. Its a museum that only opened a few years ago, but it already aquired many masterpieces. I had seen many of the pieces in art history class. They had several Picassos, two Dalis, masterpieces by modern German artists like Kirchner and Heckel. They were also holding a large exhibition of design from modern times back to the 50s and so on.




Design exhibition with BMW bikes and, well, I don't know exactly what that is. But it sure is interesting.





On Sunday morning, we took a trip out to Schloss Nymphenburg, which was a summer home for Bavarian rulers. It was a massive palace; an addition to it made it big enough to wrap almost 360 degrees around a huge courtyard.



The Rathaus or town hall, a magnificent gothic building.




Hofbrau beer

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