Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Planes, Trains, and Boats..... Oh My

The technical museum in Berlin housed a wide variety of exhibits; textiles, computers, jewelry making. Although my favorite exhibits were the trains, planes, and boats. It was really interesting to see how the trains progressed along with the city. It was also interesting to see one of the train cars that took holocaust victims to the camps. It really tied in with our trip to Auschwitz. The planes were cool to see the different models and prototypes that were created. There was the plane that was only made of wings. It was also cool to see some of the planes that had crashed or been shot down. My favorite part of the museum was the boats. There was a boat that I was able to climb aboard and look in the kitchen and under the deck. There was also mini replicas of a lot of ships that I found cool. Some of these replicas were made from jade or ivory.

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  1. I wish I would have found the boat you described that you got to climb aboard on. That sounds like a lot of fun and something a little more interactive. I did also enjoy looking at the replica boats, in the "glass bubbles".

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  2. Seeing the train car that took the POWs to Auschwitz gave a really good representation of how small it was. Seeing it in person showed the kinds of conditions they had to go through.

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