Tag - Museum

DUBAI MUSEUM OF THE FUTURE

We parked at the garage (🅿️10 AED) below The Museum of the Future to admire its fantastic architecture made of stainless steel and glass adorned with poetic Arabic calligraphy. The museum is an engineering marvel and a striking addition to the Dubai skyline. Each part of its design nods...

TATRA TRUCKS MUSEUM

It took us a few hours to explore the really nice newly opened museum of Tatra Trucks in Kopřivnice (🎟️ 220 CZK). It presents a unique collection of 80 TATRA trucks and chassis in ​​more than 5,000 square meters. The core of the collection is the original collection of Jiří Hlach, a...

ITHRA

We stopped at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, known as “Ithra” (‘enrichment’ in Arabic). It opened in 2017 and immediately became an icon and symbol of changes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And not only because of its jaw-dropping design, which...

BAY OF BONES

We knew that Museum on the water is closed on Monday, but since it was on the way to St Naum Monastery, we gave it a try. And we were lucky enough to find a friendly guard, who opened it for us (entrance 150 MKD). In prehistoric times Lake Ohrid was home to a settlement of pile dwellers...

OLSZTYNEK

Our first stop in Eastern Poland was The Folk Architecture Museum and Ethnographic Park in Olsztynek (entrance 17 PLN, parking 15 PLN). It was established in 1909 when the authorities of Königsberg (the present-day Kaliningrad) decided to establish a museum of rural architecture in the...

KYSUCE VILLAGE

The open-air museum of Kysuce Village (entrance 5 EUR) is located near the village Nová Bystrica in the beautiful countryside surrounding of protected area Kysuce, in the mountains Kysucká Highlands. One of the main reasons for village creation was the construction of a new water...

SLOVAK VILLAGE

We spent the whole afternoon in The Museum of the Slovak Village. It is the largest ethnographic open-air exposition in Slovakia (entrance 4 EUR). The museum, located in Jahodnícke Háje in the southeastern part of the town of Martin, has been built by the Slovak National Museum in Martin...

PRIBYLINA

After a rich breakfast in the truck, we took a leisure walk through the open-air museum of Liptov Village in Pribylina. We have admired the wooden folk architecture of homes of higher social classes of this region in the past (entrance 6 EUR). It features buildings from the flooded area...

NUCLEAR BASE

We made overnight deep in the forest at ex-Soviet Nuclear Missile Base in Plokščiai. The former underground missile base hosts the Cold War Museum. There was no guided tour available so we have got a chance to explore the underground and the missile silos labyrinth by ourselves. Ten...

OSTERØY

The weather in Bergen was not so good today, so we have decided to make a one-day outing. We drove through tunnels and narrow roads to the Osterøy museum. It is a folk museum beautifully located at Gjerstad near Osterøy (about 30 minutes from Bergen). The abandoned museum houses with...