In a lame attempt to diffuse the previous posting's saucy subject matter, I'm taking this post a little upmarket. Here's a shot of Nuremberg's Neues Museum, dedicated to contemporary and modern art, taken from the side of the building. The Neues Museum (German for "New Museum") has a curved front of mirrored glass. As a bit of a bonus, the museum shop is a lesser-known and quite underrated place-- it holds a lot of art, design and architecture books (at least 20-25% in English), plus the excellent Wallpaper City Guide travel book series, and an entire section dedicated to cool design-y gifts. Having been to a show or 2 at the Neues, I can safely say that the museum store is the better bet.
2 comments:
That sounds like exactly the kind of place
A) I'd love, and
B) you need a local insider to tell you about, since museum shops so often aren't worth it.
Thanks for the tip! I'll be in Nürnberg again in April at the latest, and probably earlier. Maybe even for longer than a day, giving me a chance to check it out.
Further info: The museum shop is actually to the right of where this photo was taken-- in other words, on Luitpoldstr. (the North side of the building, catty-corner from Der Beck) and not accessible by the main entrance on the East side.
Give me a holla when you're coming on over!
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