The Hedeby Viking Museum and reconstructed houses at Haithabu in northern Germany is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed site one of the top sights to see in Schleswig-Holstein. The Wikinger Museum Haithabu (Hedeby Viking Museum) is one of the most important archaeology museums in Germany with an important collection of items dating from the Viking period. … Read more
The wood-carved Bordesholm Altar and marble cenotaph of Danish King Fredrick I are art highlights in the brick Gothic St Peter’s Cathedral in Schleswig. St. Petri Dom zu Schleswig (Cathedral of St Peter at Schleswig) is one of the most important and most impressive historic buildings in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. It combines Romanesque and … Read more
The colorful weekly show cheese market in Alkmaar in North Holland is the most-famous and most-picturesque kaasmarkt in the Netherlands. The cheese market in Alkmaar, Noord Holland, is one of the top tourist highlights to see when visiting the Netherlands. This kaasmarkt is now staged for tourists but still use the traditional auction rituals and … Read more
Tickets for Schloss Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam are sold online or from the palace. Tours are a further advance reservation option to see Frederick the Great’s favorite residence. Tickets to see Fredrick the Great of Prussia’s favorite palace, Schloss Sanssouci, in Potsdam near Berlin may be bought online or at the palace itself. Guided tours … Read more
The German Tank Museum (Deutsches Panzermuseum) has around 150 tanks and related vehicles on display from the earliest examples to modern NATO equipment. The German Tank Museum (Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster) explains the history and development of tanks from the First World War to the present. The museum has around 150 tanks and similar armored vehicles … Read more
Eurostar, Thalys TGV and ICE trains make rail travel from London in England to Cologne (Köln) and Aachen in Germany time competitive with flying. High-speed trains make railways a good option when traveling between London in the UK and Cologne (Köln) and Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) in the western parts of Germany. The basic routing is the … Read more
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will mark 2019 as the “Year of Rembrandt” with a special exhibition of all the museum’s Rembrandt works. Special Rembrandt exhibitions in Amsterdam in 2019 will mark the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt van Rijn’s death. The highlight is undoubtedly the Alle Rembrandts (All the Rembrandts) exhibition in the Rijksmuseum from 15 … Read more
In 2019, temporary exhibitions in Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart include solo retrospectives of Jack Whitten, Otto Mueller and Emil Nolde. The Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart is the leading museum of contemporary art in Berlin. As the Museum for the Present, it houses the large collection of post-1960 art of the … Read more
The Deutsches Spionagemuseum in Berlin is an interesting museum on the history of spying, agent gadgets and surveillance. The German Spy Museum (Deutsches Spionagemuseum) in Berlin is the only museum in Germany focusing exclusively on international spying. It covers the history of spying with interesting information, videos and around 350 spy-related equipment and agent gadgets. … Read more
Top temporary art exhibitions in Berlin 2019 feature Mantegna and Bellini, Gustave Caillebotte, Adolph Menzel and early 20th-century female artists. The exhibition Mantegna and Bellini. Masters of the Renaissance travels from London’s National Gallery to the Gemäldegalerie as the top temporary art exhibition in Berlin in 2019. The Alte Nationalgalerie will feature impressionist Gustave Caillebotte … Read more