Belgrad's Military Museum

Dear Friends
If you will be in Belgrade (SB) don't miss the visit of the Military Museum located in the Kalemegdan Fortress. I think that the most impressive characteristic of this Museum is its collection of tanks and guns of the WWII, exposed at the open air. The following images are for you.
Salutations
Giancarlo

 

Die Donau in Österreich

Dear Friends

the Danube, as well as Sava, is a river well in the collective immaginary of Serbians. So I don't was particularly surprised to see in Belgrade (SB) this open air exhibition: Die Donau in Österreich. The exhibition provide the public with picturesques aspects of the Austrian Danube, giving, in my opinion the sensation of the quiet force of the river, which, sometimes is not the case.

Salutations
Giancarlo

Russia. A New Look

Dear Friends

I was in Belgrade last September for attending the Conference: At the Source of Science and Culture, in which I presented a paper devoted to the deciphering of the Linear A inscription on the golden signet of Mavro Spelio (Crete). The day after the arrival I had time to visit the open air exhibition: Russia. A New Look, III. Annual Exhibition of contemporary Russian Photography, which try to give hint about Russian sensitiveness suspended between new creativity and relics of the sovietism. Some images for you, and please let me know your opinion.

Salutations

Giancarlo

Oktoberfest

Dear Friends

in this last day of the Oktoberfest here in Munich, let me say that this 2012 edition appeared to Gianni and me a bit less attended as in the past. It was a sign of the crisis in Europe ? In any case, the Theresienwise and the sheds of the different Beerhouses, invaded by visitors also this year were spectacular. I send you some image.

Salutations
Giancarlo

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