MUSIC MUSEUMS WORLDWIDE

If you are planning a trip to another city or country, or in your own home town or city, you might want to add in a music museum.

UK

Horniman Museum S London.

Huge cllection of instruments. Listening posts at teach section. 

The museum is free. 

Also outdoors where is a large item with different sounds which children can strike and hear the different sounds.

USA

Scottsdale

The world's largest music museum.

New Orleans

Jazz mussum

Touring

National Guitar Museum

AUSTRALIA

Museum with large Guitar statue outside.

Big Golden Guitar, (about 40 feet tall) outside the Gallery of Stars Wax Museum.

AUSTRIA

1 Museic Mile, Vienna.

5 point stars to Smetana, Strauss and many more.

2 Vienna cemetery with composers' corner.

3 Sound of Musidc Movie Cemetery site

The cemetery where the stars of the film hid was reproduced in the studio. Here in the video is the original which inspired the movie scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC5eXUl9pOw

FINLAND

Sibelius Museum, Turku

FRANCE

Paris

Edith Piaf

Chopin 

JAMAICA

Bob Marley

Reggae

POLAND

Chopin

RUSSIA

Tchaikovsky

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_museums

https://www.nationalguitarmuseum.com/

Sound of Music cemetery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC5eXUl9pOw

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Interfaith Worship Spaces - where are they?

USA

When my family lived in the USA we were invited to meetings in a buidling which was a symagogue on Saturday and a church on Sunday. As the congregation left after a service, the the last person to leave was the minister bringing up the rear. He surreptitiously turned the signboard. The signboard was rotated to show the name of the other congregation.

What were the advantages? Nothing to do with co-operation. Sheer economics. It halved the cost of the meeting place for both communities. It halved the cost of building. Repairs. Cleaning. Cutting the grass. Paying the local taxes. 

It halved the cost of any caretaker or security device. It reduced the chance of vandalism by switching the identity. Also it ensured the building was kept in use. People coming and going. Not left empty. 

Both groups had cupboards to store books and artifacts. Curtains could be drawn, adorned with suitable symbols. The board outside announced the name of your congregation or the venue for your event. 

Until you saw the signboard turn, you had no idea. It was surreal. Like something out of a Kafka dream. Or a TV comedy.

The congregations could meet jointly for events. They, the priest and rabbi, and committees, could meet administratively to discuss practical matters such as repairs and decoration and maintenance.

ABU DHABI 

In 2023 in Abu Dhabi another type of project was produced. Three buildings, a mosque, a church, and a synagogue, form a unified complex. 

SPAIN

Cathedral–Mosque of Córdoba, Initially a pagan worship place, then converted into church and then, the Umayyad Moors built a mosque on the site, which is now reconverted into a Christian cathedral.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfaith_worship_spaces

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_Family_House

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque%E2%80%93Cathedral_of_C%C3%B3rdoba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conversion_of_non-Christian_religious_buildings_and_structures_into_churches

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianized_sites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagogue_of_El_Tr%C3%A1nsito

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Sit alongside a statue - Mr Bean In London, Belsen stragglers in the north

Memorial to a soldier who had helped liberate Belsen concentration camp in German where Anne Frank and her sister had died earlier that year.

On a jollier note, you can sit beside Mr Bean in Leicester Square, London, England.

The sculptor was a friend of the former soldier.

Useful Websites

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Gilroy_and_the_Belsen_Stragglers

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Sit Beside Benjamin Franklin in the USA

 The statue is in the sculpture garden in Phildelphia, USA.

Benjamin Franklin supposedly said, a place for everything and everything in its place.

He also invented bifocals. And the lightning conductor. He signed the declaration of independence and wrote some of it.

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Santa Claus, Moomins And Attractions To See In Finland and Moomins Worldwide

 What to see in Finland? First, where is it? the easterly of the Scandinavian countries, bordering Russia. You could travel on Finnish Air to Helsinki Airport.

1 Moomin Shop at Helsinki Airport

Get acqauinted with the Moomins. The shop is on the arrivals side, so you can see it on arrival or departure or as a side trip.

Moomin shops in the UK are in Covent Garden and Camden Market.

2 Sibelius Musum, Helsinki.

3 Harbour market 

Fish is sold from the boats.

4 Take a ferry ride to the fortress.

The fortress dates back to the 1700s.

5 Santa Express Train

Travel overnight about 10 hours on the Santa Express train from Helsinki to Santa Claus area of Lapland.

At Rovaneimi, gateway to the arctic, you have a choice of two Santa Calus atractions, or do both. Meet Santa. 

6 Santa Claus Village.

7 Mrs Claus Cottage. 

Mrs Claus bakes cookies. 

Children can take a craft class.

8 Santa Claus ...

9 Reindeer sleigh.

With bells on it. The reindeer's antlers look spiky but they are apparently quite shy. You are asked to stay calm and quiet, not to shout and scream excitedly. A good rule around all animals.

10 Dog sledge

11 Cross Country skiing.

12 Snowshoeing.

10

Useful Websites

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Muumimaailma

https://www.moomin.com/en/

https://www.moomin.com/en/locations/

https://sibeliusmuseum.fi/en/

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See The Tree At Heathrow Airport, London

 

Tree at heathrow airport, London. Photo by Angela Lansbury

The tree greets you on arrivals at Heathrow Airport. A spiral of purple up a cone of white fairy lights. With a five point star on top.

Not green, and not tree shape. Yet it is unmiskably a Christmas tree, or what nowadays reminisces of one. All electric. No dropping leaves nor spikes. Clean and efficient. Modern. Like a plane.

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Lights to brighten up the early nights. In Singapore dusk was at 7 pm all year. In London, England, days are shorter in winter.

Sit beside a seated statue - Agatha Christie, Wallingford, UK, or see a speaking statue

A seated statue of Agatha Christie is in Wallingford, England, UK. You can photograph the statue. Or photograph yourself seated beside her. She has a book in her hands. You could mimic her pose. Take a book as a prop.

Agatha Christie Memorials

1 Westminster, London, England.

2 Torquay, Devon, England.

3 Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England.

I looked in Wikipedia for statues of authors. I found talking statues included one of Hans Christian Andersen in Denmark.

 Useful Websites

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/11/agatha-christie-statue-takes-seat-on-bench-in-oxfordshire-town

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Statues

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