Berlin Days 4 and 5
On these days I visited the Jewish Museum and went to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. I did other things, but no photographic evidence exists, so let's pretend it never happened (actually I just went to the GDR museum and didn't like it too much).
Here in the Jewish museum, they have these mostly empty rooms called voids. This one above is the holocaust void, I believe. In any case, it's a really creepy concrete room with just one slit in it to allow outside light and sounds in.
The whole of the Jewish museum feels very 'new art' -ish. This was another void with the pictured art installation in it. It's really just a bunch of metal faces screaming, and you're supposed to walk all over them.
This man may be Humboldt, but thankfully the sculptor was named Ironique.
The Berlin Dome (with the radio tower in the background). This is a big noisy church that I did not go into. See prior posts for my irrational fear of being in churches. I still think it's a really cool building, at least from the outside. It is a common joke to refer to bald Berliners as "Berliner Domes." Oh man, everyone gets a laugh at that.
This is the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, made to memorialize Kaiser Wilhelm I. Everything was peachy until the British kinda completely destroyed it during WWII, leaving only this front tower part. After the war they built a new church right next to the ruins, seen in the left side of the picture, that waffle-y looking thing. But they've kept the remains of the original church, as a memorial to the original church, I guess?
Here in the Jewish museum, they have these mostly empty rooms called voids. This one above is the holocaust void, I believe. In any case, it's a really creepy concrete room with just one slit in it to allow outside light and sounds in.
The whole of the Jewish museum feels very 'new art' -ish. This was another void with the pictured art installation in it. It's really just a bunch of metal faces screaming, and you're supposed to walk all over them.
This man may be Humboldt, but thankfully the sculptor was named Ironique.
The Berlin Dome (with the radio tower in the background). This is a big noisy church that I did not go into. See prior posts for my irrational fear of being in churches. I still think it's a really cool building, at least from the outside. It is a common joke to refer to bald Berliners as "Berliner Domes." Oh man, everyone gets a laugh at that.
This is the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, made to memorialize Kaiser Wilhelm I. Everything was peachy until the British kinda completely destroyed it during WWII, leaving only this front tower part. After the war they built a new church right next to the ruins, seen in the left side of the picture, that waffle-y looking thing. But they've kept the remains of the original church, as a memorial to the original church, I guess?
3 Comments:
Nice...and creepy.
Great blog/pix, Pat. Have a Nuremberger (Nirenberger?) before you leave - it's the only thing edible in Berlin. I think it rhymes with Sacre Coeur. Love, Aunt Linda (because I'm too much of a tech dummy to figure out the whole Choose an identity thing.)
Not sure what a Nuremberger is, but you're looking at the proud consumer of both Currywurst and Brockwurst, both of which were tastilicious.
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