Unfettered

 The weather forecast for Saturday of the long easter weekend called for rain so I booked a ticket for the Deutsches Museum  which is billed as the largest science and technology museum in the world. It does have its own island which you may remember as the location for my covid test to break quarantine. Like the Nymphenburg palace grounds the Deutsches Museum also has an app which I started out by promptly ignoring and checking out the Mine exhibit.  As you can see the exhibit is styled as a replica cave with scale replicas representing different types of mining. They did keep things to scale as seen by this doorway. I appreciated the coal mining section, having visited an actual coal mine in Pennsylvania. The exhibit did an excellent job capturing the claustrophobia (though perhaps my photography did not). The machine room representing more modern mines even smelled like a machine shop which I assume is realistic. Once out of the mines I opted to actually follow the App...

 Once my time arrived I lined to enter the museum. I think my first European art Museum since I visited the Paris Musee D'Orsay in 2018. The main rotating exhibit was "UNDER THE OPEN SKY Traveling with Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter" . I ended up there first since the brochure I picked up turned out to not have a map so I followed the people who looked like they knew what they were doing. There was a line to get into the exhibit since they were limiting capacity in the wing to aid in social distancing. Inside, in addition to the art, every room had a refrigerator sized air disinfector so I felt reasonably safe. The exhibit itself was quite interesting and had placards in German and English. It turns out Kandinsky and I both appreciate mountains as you can see by comparing the pictures below. I also appreciated seeing the two artists takes on the same subject. This also happened to be landscapes which is something I'm fond of in general. I was glad I'd picke...

 I found out the other week that my landlady periodically hires a cleaner for the apartment so we scheduled the first appointment for the weekend of March 13. In the interest of Covid safety and avoiding awkwardness I opted to be out of the apartment while it was being cleaned. I planned to take advantage of the newly reopened museums since the weather wasn't forecasted to be particularly nice. I decided on the Münchner Stadtmuseum (Munich city museum) since I figured it wouldn't be high on the list for locals. As far as I could tell from the website they required masks and recommended contactless payment.  I started out Saturday morning with a detour to a coffee and pastry shop called Chocolab which seems to have great SEO since their Google map pin seems to show up frequently. I had a coffee and a gooey fudge brownie. The brownie was decadent but I prefer the coffee from the cafe a few doors down from me.  Despite the detour I still arrived at the museum before it opene...