Scenes from Long Night of Museums

So last night was the summer installment of Berlin's semi-annual Long Night of the Museums, where one ticket gets you into almost every museum in town and they all stay open late. My friend Alex and I spent 6 hours wandering about, and saw just a tiny fraction of what was open. I didn't take pics of the paintings we saw, but among the highlights were a couple of Vermeers. That dude could paint...

Anyway, here's some highlights, starting with people already in line for the Altes Museum, where the Greek, Roman, and Egyptian antiquities are:

There were various street performers and the like around, which we saw hardly any of. But we did run across these blue people on stilts getting ready:

As the sun was setting, everything looked lovely. I took this pic of building, the name of which eludes me and which I'm too lazy to look up right now:

We did go inside museums too. In the communications museum there was this cool deconstructed postal carriage:

And of course for me the highlights were the swords and armor and stuff, like this:

The end of that exhibit had this really funny set-up that made a point and made me laugh. This is the angle you first see the room from:

Comments

[Becky]

That is funny! What a cool event! Though the name makes me think, "Night of the Long Knives," every time I see it in print.

[Juniper]

I want a postal carriage mobile! I love the last photo... I'm afraid I wouldn't be allowed to curate many exhibits because scenes this that would be too tempting... Looks like it was a great time.

[Matt]

Good thinking, blue guys. You definitely do not want to pull something up there.

I looked it up - it's a picture of the Deutscher Dom from the steps of the Concert Hall.

[Nick Fury]

I think those blue folks liked Avatar a bit too much...