Walking in Moscow

Dear Friends
the last M.Polo Lecture: Walking in Moscow, by myself held on 25/04/2012 at the
EPO was well attended and successful. Notwithstanding a precedent event in the room, the
Lecture started regularly, although I regret that a M-Polo member coming from outside the EPO was not allowed to access the room of the Lecture. Such a possible situation will be taken into account in organizing future M.Polo public events. The Lecture run smooth, but let me say that I was particularly delight by the lot of questions from the public concerning practical aspects and tipps for visiting the town of Moscow (Moscow card, money change, payements, restaurants, russian food specialities, visas, specialised travel agencies for Russia, Siberia and Far East). The following images (although of not very high quality) document the development of the Lecture. The full set of images of the lecture is available on request. Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Die Weltenältesten - vom ABC bis zur Apokalypse

Dear Friends
yesterday I was at the Bayerisches Staatlische Bibliothek for giving back a book, when I was surprised to see strange "sculptures" in the entrance hall and along the stairway. Two boards atop of the stairway advertised the exhibitions: Die Weltenältesten
http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Einzeldarstellung.403+M59dba07cda9.0.html
and vom ABC bis zur Apokalypse:
http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/xylographa-ausstellungvirtuell#I
Concerning the first one, I have to say that the meaning of the exhibition, or the message that it tries to communicate is quite obscure. Probably, it methaphorically refers to the transformation of inhanimated matter into living, acrobatic creatures. By means of the following images, you can form your personal opinion.
Concerning the second one, unfortunately, I cannot supply you images because take images was not allowed. However, the information and the images of the books, expecially the Calendar of Regiomontanus, the Chiromantie, the Mirabilia Romae and the Antichrist, are sufficiently complete for giving you an idea of the fascinating content of the exhibition. My only question is: why don't allow to take images if a lot of them, also of very high quality and in 3D, are already in internet ?
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

 

Zoological Museum - Moscow

Dear Friends
the Zoological Museum of the Moscow University http://zmmu.msu.ru/eng/ , not far from the Saviour Cathedral, presents its collections of insects, birds, fisches and an impressive parade of skeletons of present animals of all the environments. Of particolar interest the skeleton of a mamonth. In visiting the museums of Moscow, I realised that I not had the time of visiting churches and monasteries, but it would be the subject of a next visit to Moscow.
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Saluti
Giancarlo

State Geology Museum - Moscow

Dear Friends
the State Geology Museum in Moscow presents not only native forms of minerals but also
aspects related to the exploration of the far regions of Russia as well as animals of these regions. But, I visited the Museum because interested to its collection of meteorits Both metallic and carbonaceous. The following images give you an idea of the collections of the Museum.
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Technology Museum - Moscow

Dear Friends
of interest in Moscow is also the Technology Museum http://www.moscow.info/museums/polytechnical-museum-at-the-ilinsky-gates.aspx
similar, in its conception to the Deutsches Museum in Munich. It presents the Russian and Soviet achievements in the different field of the technology. It has a section devoted to the space technology, but no so so spectacular as the sections of the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in the same Moscow. Of interest the full scale model of the first soviet atomic bomb, similar to the second american atomic bomb. A board inform the visitor that the model does not include the atomic explosive.
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Palaeonthology Museum - Moscow

Dear Friends
if you will be in Moscow, don't miss the occasion to visit the Palaeonthology Museum ( http://www.russianmuseums.info/M416 ) located near the underground station Tioply Stan. The Museum located in a modern designed red building strongly contrasted with the r white colour of the sorrounding nature. It presents, not in chronological order, Permian dinosaurs, Giurassic dinosaurs and Olocen speleo bears, mamonths and carnivors. In particular, I have to say that in many Palaeonthology museums I visited (London, Paris, Berlin, Milano), there are preserved sculls and parts of the bones of the Indricotherium a mammal preceding the mamonths and bigger than them. But, I was very surprised to see at the Museum of Moscow two impressive skelets of Indricotherium Transuralicus practically complete.
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo