Museum Hopper

eek!  the last post from my trip!  right before i left for my night at the airport hotel, i went to the deutsches museum .   it is definitely the largest "museum of technology and engineering."  direct quote from the guidebook: the museum is a "tour de force."  yep, and it was.  the museum is huge.  it was difficult to find things at time, similar to the met or the louvre.  this did take it to an extreme case though.  this picture is an example of what i cut through to get to the music section of the museum.  i tried to hit the highlights, which included galileo's workshop, alexander graham bell's telephone and a wright brothers' plane.  they did have great descriptions for most of the museum.  the range of stuff is incredible.  i do not have much to say since the collection is crazy.  i felt that it could have have been edited slightly, but the massive size is what the museum is somewhat known for.  i cove...

while in munich, i decided to head to the schloss nymphenberg , which was a little outside downtown.  from the main train station, i needed to take a metro train and then a bus.  this palace was built in honor of future king's son's birth.  talk about a birthday present!  similar to the residenz , this building also was built in staged and continually added onto to make it what it is today. the walk to the main palace is quite grand.  it has a few canals and is surrounded by all of these pretty outbuildings.  the main entrance is in the middle between two staircases.  within the main entrance is where you can buy the admissions ticket.  i ended up buying the combination ticket , which got me entrance to everything, the main palace, and all of the park palaces.  my guidebook mistakenly mentions that the audio guide is free; it is no longer the case.  i was also slightly disappointed in the pamphlet.  it did not contain a map of the...