The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is today's #MidweekMuseum and it's a place worth seeing for the building itself as much as the exhibits. It's a great example of Victorian Neo-Gothic design in iron and glass. There are some lovely pieces to see in the museum, of course, but we took most joy in being allowed to touch the 4.5 billion years old Nantan iron meteorite.

#Museum #Oxford #NaturalHistory #Meteorite #Architecture #NeoGothic #Victorian

My #MidweekMuseum today is the #Vasa #Museum in #Stockholm, #Sweden. Vasa was a 17th century #warship, intended to be the flagship of a squadron based in the Swedish Archipelago, but she was over-designed to be dangerously top-heavy by the king, Gustavus Adolphus, sailed out before a watching crowd, caught a small breeze, flooded through the open gun ports, and sank into mud that preserved her this well.

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My #MidweekMuseum recommendation is Zadar Archaeological Museum. If you like Roman artifacts in very good condition and the sense of stepping back in time when you're up close to them then this is a great place to explore, and right outside the museum are more ruins of pillars than you can shake a historical stick at in the old Roman Forum.

#Museum #History #Zadar #Croatia #Roman #Mosaic

My #MidweekMuseum today is the Norsk Folkemuseum (or Norwegian Museum of Cultural History) at Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. It's an open-air museum housing dozens of historical buildings relocated to this area for preservation, and home of the Gol Stave Church (circa 1200 CE), one of three stave churches we've now visited in Norway when travelling. Who doesn't love a stave church?

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Museum #Norway #Church #StaveChurch #Oslo #Bygdoy #Norsk

This week's #MidweekMuseum recommendation - after a short break - is the Nonsense Museum in Ísafjörður, Iceland. This is a museum dedicated to collections of collections. The pictures here show alcohol miniatures, playing cards, police helmets, shot glasses, Pez dispensers, perfume and testers, but there were also airplane models, pens, cigarette packets, monkeys, spoons, and more. All fascinating and fun nonsense.

#Museum #Travel #Isafjordur #Iceland #NonsenseMuseum #Nonsense

Today's #MidweekMuseum is Bangsbo Fort and Bunker Museum, located in Frederikshavn, Denmark. This World War 2 structure is a series of wartime bunkers built as part of Germany's Atlantic Wall coastal defences. Fabulous views out from this high vantage point, and the various bunkers you can enter and large guns you can see up close give a good feel for conditions of the time.

#Museum #BangsboFort #Bangsbo #AtlanticWall #WorldWarII #WorldWar2 #Denmark #Frederikshavn #Bunker #Travel #Photography

#MidweekMuseum moves to #Oxford this week and the #Ashmolean #Museum. Oxford isn't short of museums to visit, but if you're going to just see one of them then this is probably the most famous in the city and the one you're most likely to hit. Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Assyrian artifacts will satisfy your deep historical cravings and there is plenty for fans of paintings and objects such as violins and timepieces too.

#Photography #Hieroglyphics #Roman #Egyptian #Greek #Sphinx

This week's #MidweekMuseum is the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Dulles, Washington, part of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. This was the year I went to America and left my camera at home so excuse the old Nokia phone shots. Some incredible craft to see, spent ages looking, and pictured here are an early MiG jet fighter, the Enola Gay, an SR-71 Blackbird, and the Space Shuttle Discovery.

#Museum #Travel #Photography #Smithsonian #SpaceShuttle #Blackbird #EnolaGay #Dulles

I’ve spent in all several hours over three visits to Gropius Bau. IMO the best Berlin museum for contemporary art and photo. #MidweekMuseum

My #MidweekMuseum recommendation this week is #Laufás folk and heritage #museum in #Iceland, not too far from #Akureyri in the north of the country. This is not your normal turf house, as it was a wealthy manor house and vicarage. There's a church there you can visit too, but the house is the main star, and is TARDIS-like in its size inside with corridors and rooms off everywhere in the grassy landscape.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #TurfHouse #GrassRoof #FolkMuseum #Folk

My family at Václavské náměstí in front of the National Museum, Prague 2022 #MidweekMuseum

North Tower Pool at 9/11 Memorial & Museum, NYC 2016 #MidweekMuseum

My #MidweekMuseum post this week is the Museo do Pobo Galego, which if you're ever visiting #SantiagoDeCompostela I highly recommend. Not only super cheap, not only a very interesting look at the Galician way of life and language, but the building is a former convent, includes a church, folk and art exhibitions, and some incredible triple helix stairs designed to confuse visitors. Worth a visit for those stairs alone.

#Museum #Spain #Galicia #Stairs #Travel

My wife and kid at GASK - Galerie Středočeského kraje or Central Bohemian Art Gallery, Kutná Hora CZ #MidweekMuseum

This week's #MidweekMuseum recommendation is just a ten-minute walk from our house, and it's the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum. We've lived in Portsmouth all our lives but it took until 2017 for us to finally pop in and see the home that the famous author was born in. Dickens wouldn't have known much about the house or city as his family left when he was three, but it's a lovely Victorian home to nose around, nonetheless.

#Portsmouth #Museum #CharlesDickens #Victorian

The gorgeous Altes Museum in Berlin with notable Roman and Greek antiquities #MidweekMuseum

Franz Kafka Museum, a great collection of original letters and manuscripts in Prague #MidweekMuseum

My #MidweekMuseum recommendation this week is the best #museum in the world, hands down. This is the Museum of Everyday Life in Ísafjörður, #Iceland. It's a feast for the senses. Touch wool. Look at old photos and read local people's memories of the day. Hold old shoes and listen to Icelanders recall a story about the shoe on old phones. Unscrew jars and smell memory items (school crayons, seaweed, socks, etc.). Small, perfect, just fantastic.

https://everydaylife.is/

#Travel #Isafjordur

Atrium stairs at The Dalí Museum, St Pete FL #MidweekMuseum

My #MidweekMuseum recommendation today is a series of locations dotted across #Lisbon in #Portugal that together make up the Museu da Água, or #WaterMuseum. Pictured here is the impressive Águas Livres #Aqueduct (from which great views of the city can be had), the Mãe d’Água and the Reservatório da Patriarcal #reservoirs, and the latter's 400 metre long #tunnel that makes its way under the city to Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara.

#Museum #Reservoir #Travel #TravelPhotography #Photography