Special museums and experiences in Europe.
In Szreniawa (Poland) we found an agricultural museum. And to be honest… an agricultural museum doesn't really appeal to us. "If I want to see cows, I'll look at a meadow." But…. this was something different! Because agriculture also includes….. Crop-dusting aircraft:
Well… they are officially called a museum, but to be honest… you should see it more as a huge collection of everything that has anything to do with technology (and sometimes not)….
The old Stasi prison of Berlin still stands in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin. Built in 1938 as a factory and inaugurated in May 1945 by the Russian NKWD as a camp for “political prisoners”.
Next to Friedrichstraße (Berlin) station is the old entrance building to the platforms for the tracks that went from West to East Berlin
The Dampflok Museum is located in Hermeskeil. But this is a special museum and something you would not expect with that name…
In Magdeburg there is still a very old and beautiful Technology Museum with primarily old DDR stuff. It is located in an old foundry where armored steel was once cast for tanks and the like.
From October 18, 1941 until February 1945, this freight station was one of the most important deportations locations of the Jews from Berlin. A total of 35 trains carrying 17,000 Jews left from platform 17 (German: Gleis 17) directly to Auschwitz. By the end of the war, more than 50,000 Jews had been deported through this station.
And then you are a day out with friends and then you suddenly find yourself at the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn. This is a suspended monorail that is not primarily intended for tourists, but as normal public transport ...
In the north of France, in the town of Audinghen, there is a museum that manages the bunker “Todt”. The bunker itself is already a solid appearance ... but the cannon that stands next to it ... that was what mattered to us ... A Krupp K5 cannon, made between 1937 and 1940. It fired a 255 kilo grenade over a distance of almost 70 km. The gun weighs 120 tons and is 32 meters long.
Well… who doesn't know Nikola Tesla… uhhhh yes… unfortunately to many people unfortunately don't know him. And that's a missed opportunity ...
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