Frankfurt. December 30th, 2006.
We wanted to visit Explora museum in Frankfurt and went were at the very end of 2006. Explora is a private museum featuring a collection of amusements like anaglyphs, holograms, visual illusions and other similar stuff. It looked very promising on their Web site but actually you get have the whole thing in about an hour.Anyways, we had the rest of the day to spend somewhere and went to the post and communication museum, pointing our heads up on skyscrapers on our way:
The communications museum is worth visiting, same as radio museum in Furth. We love those things. This one in Frankfurt has a big collection of all kinds of post-related items and communication devices as opposed to pure radio- and television-oriented museum in Furth. Before this trip, I've never seen (only read about) the first telegraph devices where letters were indicated by a rotating arrow:
And this one looks even older:
And you can't miss some kitsch culture for telephones:
The museum has a special workshop where you can construct toys and other unnecessary stuff from dismantled electronic equipment. It costs 1 Euro an hour with materials and tools provided - cool! We did it twice in a row. You have to see the happy kids getting out at the end of the hour, holding old graphic cards glued to retail cashier LCD displays etc.
While my son was having fun in the workshop, I went out to make a couple of photos of Main river in the evening.
This one was on our way back to the train station:
