Yesterday Frankfurt put on a really neat event for Sqeze’s birthday 
It started at 7 p.m. and went on until 2 a.m. In fact it is an annual event and just happened to fall on the 24th April this year. 47 museums in and around Frankfurt open up their doors and put on special events all for the price of 13€ a nose. As we had never been before and have been meaning to visit some of the other museums in Frankfurt before we move on to warmer climes, we decided to go. Apart from being able to visit the museums themselves, some of the museums had live bands and music and dancing.
We only visited 3 of the museums before getting tired feet and exhibit overload. We went to the museum of applied art where we saw some amazingly old and beautiful wooden cupboards and chests of drawers, including this 18th century example, where the tumbling blocks marquetry caught my eye.
Next stop was the museum of world cultures which is quite small, but also has an impressive collection of objects including some wonderful textiles. Unfortunately it was too dark to get any good photos of those, but these neat masks in the education department did photograph well.
And in case you were wondering what they are made of, here’s the answer:
Kitchen sieves!
Final stop was the museum of communication where there was a live band playing with people dancing. There was an interesting exhibition of faked digital images, some of which were really very good. It was very popular though and quite crowded. In fact we even had to queue up to leave the museum!
We’ve had the first warm weekend of the year, so it was quite pleasant walking around Frankfurt at night. Considering that fact that we had frost 3 nights in a row in the week it was quite a change.
It’s been quite a week of culture, because on Wednesday evening we went on a guided tour around the Uwe Lausen exhibition too. You can’t help wondering whether he would be much better known if he had lived a bit longer than 31 years.
