On Sunday 09 June 2013, I went to Mannheim with friend Pablo Jimenez Hernandez. Our main purpose was to visit the temporary exhibition "Die Medici" in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen:
http://www.medici2013.de/, together with the photo exhibition "Die Shaolin Mönche". While the former is very complete and didactic, with special emphasis on the Medicis heath condition, the latter seemed disappointing to us: whereas you should take more than 1 hour to see the essentials of The Medici, 15 minutes is more than enough to see The Monks. Photography isn't allowed, thus I merely present an outside view.
On our way to the museums, we visited the castle, which houses an interesting museum, here with a refractor by Jesse Ramsden and the Reading Cabinet, and a small Catholic Church (here the organ).
Nearby is a magnificent Jesuit Church, flanked by the Old Observatory. The latter was undergoing an overhaul, so that we couldn't see it, even from the outside.
By Jean-Luc Dighaye
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