The Berlin Schatzkammer (Treasure Room).

I thought Alex would really like this room...it was a room in the basement of the Berlin Museum of Communications. It was very dark and had a series of circular cases, each one only had one object in it and the light only came on as you approached it. The objects all had interesting stories .. my favourite two were some slightly burnt letters from the Hindenburg and Joseph Beuy's Tin can telephone. I did a rather rushed drawing in my notebook...but it might help you imagine the room.
It worked to help you really concentrate on the object in front of you and not be distracted by other things or people....you were stood in the dark with this object and its story.

I looked up the meaning of SCHATZKAMMER:-

"Schatzkammer is a German word which translates as Treasure Room, and is a term also used in English for the collection of treasures, especially those in precious metals and jewels, of a ruler or other collector, kept in a secure room, often in the basement of a palace or castle. It also often included the wider types of object typical of the Renaissance cabinet of curiosities."

Museum Postcards from Berlin

 Just back from a very windy trip to Berlin, where we spent a lot of time in Museums.

I don't want to overload this site with museum cards..but I am interested in what objects get chosen to be put on the limited selection of cards in the Museum shop and how the objects are photographed.

Communication Museum and Natural History Museum

Communication Museum and Natural History Museum

Medical History Museum

Medical History Museum

Vorderasiatisches Museum