Sunday matinée

Long night of the museums in Berlin last night. I wanted to visit Queen Nofretete in her new home. She lived next doors to me but was moved to Berlin center this year.

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Alas, her new home was closed to the public. My sweetheart wanted to go to the Naturhistorisches Museum. I like this museum and have been there a couple of times. Apart from the impressive dinosaurs in the entrance hall, their priceless archäopterix fossile

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– originally sold for the price of a cow by its finder – and most interesting meteorites, last night we also saw an ehibition about deep sea creatures.
I liked the mega stomack fish. As they seldom happen upon food, the are equipped with a belly that can hold prey almost three times their size. Very practical. But all in all, due to the everlasting darkness down there, I guess, the creatures of the deep blue are not what one might call cute.

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Also a new information to me: Neanderthal people coexisted with modern humans up to the point they died out. I always just asumed it was a chronological succession. But no, it was not. Even before that, humanoid apes of various stages of developement coexisted, some even in the same area, one population, say, on the river bank, the other in the surrounding woods.
And of course we visited my absolute favourite in this house: the big biodiversity wall. Last night I chose the Morpho butterfly to be the most amazing creature featured there. Every time I am there, I pick another animal. So, have a look at last nights winner of my personal beauty contest:

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As for the Bode Museum, which we went to instead of visiting Nofretete: great building.

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The exhibits were interesting but as they consist mostly of sacral art not really my cup of tea. However, there was one sculpture called Allegory of the Roman Catholic Church, depicting a woman crunching a man with her foot, all the while holding the pope’s tiara in her right hand, which I thought inspired. The other interesting exhbit were choir stalls featuring amazing wooden inlays, some of them reminding me of modern art.

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All in all, I had a great time. Rounded up nicely with a visit to an Irish pub. Thanks, honey.