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Globe Museum, Vienna — October 2006
Globenmuseum! This place is awesome. It's a small museum, but it's full of beautiful displays and really lovingly curated.
I started off not being terribly interested in seeing the globe museum, then started joking about going there because my friend Ben is so into maps and geography and stuff, and then the more I thought about the place the more I decided I was actually really really excited about going. I'd also joked with Ben over e-mail that I'd read there was an Esperanto museum in Vienna, too, and that's another geeky thing he's into, so it was pretty amazing when I finally went to the globe museum and saw that it's housed in the same building as the Esperanto museum. We went to both; the Esperanto museum gallery is up next.
Globes! I've already resigned myself to the fact that there's not gonna be a lot I can really say in captions for these photos. Pretty much just, "Globes!" They're really pretty globes, though.
Globes!
Jeez, this is a mighty fancy hallway to display a couple of nerdy ol' globes in.
Globes! And Tami!
Flaccid globes!
This is where baby globes come from!
Metal globe!
Space globes!
More space globes!
Okay, you get it by now.
This was maybe my favorite thing in the globe museum: "The Earth and its Inhabitants" — a tiny globe in a box that came with a little booklet showing (for the most part) horribly misinformed drawings of the various peoples of the Earth.
Spaniard, Scotsman, Frenchman. These aren't so bad, but there were some pretty hilarious pictures of native Africans, Asians, American Indians, etc, but my photos of those didn't come out too good.
After we were all globed out, we hit the Esperanto Museum...
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