Lätzte Ölung Nigerdelta

Dear Friends
the most impressive exhibition Jean-Luc and me visited at the State Museum of Ethnology here in Munich was the Lätzte Ölung Nigerdelta, devoted to the tremendous and sometime destructive impact of the oil economy on the Nigerian environment and etno-cultures. Apparently, as shown by the images, said cultures suffer from the rapid changes imposed not only on their cultural being but also in their economic life and react sometime by developing guerilla movements and attacks against the oil installations. More info about the exhibition at:
http://www.mpz.bayern.de/mpz-aktuell/sonderausstellungen/staatliches-museum-fr-vlkerkunde/letzte-oelung-nigerdelta.html
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

  

Netzwerk Exotik

Dear Friends
the second temporary exhibition we visited last Sunday was the Netzwerk Exotik - 150 Jahre Völkerkundemuseum München. The exhibition proposes original pieces in the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Museum, collected by German ethnologists in the past for providing the public with an idea about foreign cultures and the function executed by an Ethnology museum. More information about the exhibition at:
http://www.br.de/themen/kultur/inhalt/voelkerkundemuseum-muenchen-jubilaeum100.html
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Des Kaisers geschenkte Kleider

Dear Friends

first of all let me apologize for the lack in the advertising of the temporary exhibitions at the State Museum of Ethnology (Staatlische Museum für Völkerkunde) here in Munich. The decision of visiting said temporary exhibitions was taken late on last Friday.

Anyway, the exhibition Des Kaisers geschenkte Kleider presented precious oriental objects and dresses decorated with dragons ad vegetable motifs sometimes carried out by gold threads. If the dresses in themselves suggest power and solemnity, this motifs, I think, give an idea of movement and lightness to these otherwise heavy dresses.
More info about the exhibition at:
http://www.mpz.bayern.de/mpz-aktuell/sonderausstellungen/staatliches-museum-fr-vlkerkunde/des-kaisers-geschenkte-kleider.html

Any comment from your side is welcome.

Salutations
Giancarlo

  

Das Rätsel der Antimaterie

Dear Friends
Tuesday of last week, Jean-Luc and me attended the Lecture: Das Rätsel der Antimaterie by the joung professor P. Fierlinger of the Exzellenzcluster Universe at the Café & Cosmos here in Munich. As prof. Fierlinger explained the observed magnetic dipole momentum of the neutrons suggests that they are not elementary particles, but, their possible electric dipole momentum, to be confirmed, would given hints about the violation of the CP symmetry in the first phases of the Universe evolution and about the asymmetry today observed between matter and antimatter. More information about the subject of the Lecture at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_magnetic_moment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_electric_dipole_moment
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

The experiment of Magdeburg

Dear Friends
in our excursion to Magdeburg, Jean-Luc and me were particularly attracted by the living reevocation of the historical experiment of Otto von Guerike of 1656 named also experiment of the hemispheres of Magdeburg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_hemispheres . With this experiment it was possible, for the first time, to create the vacuum and demonstrate the pressure of our atmosphere. In the reevocation, up to six pairs of horses at each side were unable to separate the joined hemispheres. Only at the end by restoring the normal pressure inside, the hemispheres disjoined themselves. The images give you an impression of the exciting atmosphere of the reevocaton.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Magdeburg

Dear Friends
last Sunday, thanks to the perfect organisation by Jean-Luc, the announced M.Polo excursion to Magdeburg took place. During the journey by train to the town we remarked  many buildings and industrial plants, mainly built by bricks, of the former East-Germany in a totally abandoned and degraded state. Anyway, Magdeburg presents itself as a modern and lively town in which ancient corners have been preserved. One corner is that of the  Cathedral. Its luminous interior impresses the visitor and the prayer with the sense of ascension typical of the gothic style. Two big organs, a classical and a modern one:
http://sd2cx1.webring.org/l/rd?ring=pipeorganring;id=47;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emagdeburgerdommusik%2Ede%2Fhtml%2Fenglish%2Ehtml , tower over the entrances and religious sculptures communicates joi and pain. On the exterior a rich collection of gargoyles. The following images illustrates our visit of the Cathedral. The visit of the exhibition Otto der Grosse and das Römische Reich - Kaisertum der Antike zum Mittelalter http://www.otto2012.de/ permitted to us to admire original documents signed by Otto with his caracteristic ligature. Unfortunately, at the exhibition, it was not allowed to take images.
Salutations
Giancarlo