THESE UNUSUAL INSTITUTIONS CELEBRATE EVERYTHING FROM BIKINIS AND BAD ART TO NEON SIGNS AND UNDERWATER SCULPTURE Museums throughout the world showcase the boundless and varied potential of human creativity Renowned institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art Uffizi Galleries and the Louvre offer an enriching high-culture experience with galleries of masterpieces from the world’s most celebrated artists But look further afield and discover lesser-known collections that celebrate the weird wacky and wonderful elements of the creative spirit From the kaleidoscopic spectacle of the Neon Museum in Las Vegas to the somewhat macabre exploration of funereal artifacts at the Museum for Sepulchral Culture in Kassel this list of quirky museums around the world will take you down a path less traveled and may just inspire you to broaden the itinerary of your next cultural vacation Photo by Florian Busch © Bikini Art Museum ‘Lucy in the Field with Flowers,’ artist unknown ANDREW NODELL is a contributor to Intelligent Collector is set to be transported from the Technik Museum Speyer to its final destination at the Technik-Museum Sinsheim on Sunday On Sunday the U-boat will be transported on the first leg of the journey from the museum in Speyer to the Rhine at Auwald natural harbor The move involves a large-scale heavy transport by road and Rhine and Neckar rivers necessitating significant road closures and traffic restrictions Transporting the submarine poses a number of logistiical challenges As it is too large for several bridges over the smaller Neckar river on the way to the museum the submarine has to be tilted by 70 degrees and will travel the river on its side Spectators are advised not to travel by car due to the lack of parking spaces along the detour and transport route The city suggests using large public parking lots in the city instead The sidewalk along Industriestraße will provide a good vantage point for viewing U-17 was the first German submarine in American waters after World War II and the first submarine to enter the port of Baltimore after the last submarine anchored there in 1916 The extensive transportation route for U-17 continues beyond June 30: A 350-tonne German navy submarine is currently halfway through a four-week journey to its new home - travelling by road and river rather than the ocean The decommissioned U-Boat U17 – which was operated by the German navy from 1973 until 2010 – is making a slow and careful journey to its final destination of the Technik Museum Sinsheim Large-scale heavy transporters have been tackling the journey by roads and waterways The submarine travelled by river barge earlier on its route but the team members handling the boat are now negotiating more than 50 kilometres of land travel to reach its final destination it poses numerous logistical challenges while being transported this way Due to it being too large to fit under several bridges the submarine had to be tilted on its side U17 - Der letzte Landgang – ein gelungener Roll-off in Haßmersheim 13. Juli 2024Es war ein beeindruckender Anblick, als der Ponton quer im Neckar lag und der 30-Achsen-Tieflader vorsichtig unter U17 fuhr. Ein großartiger Moment für alle Beteiligten!#U17#Ubootpic.twitter.com/A4J7iCbX0p The Technik Museum is also live-streaming the submarine's journey Most recently the museum shared that on its adventure it "slowly and carefully" crossed the railway crossing in Bad Rappenau the team manoeuvred the U17 into Wimpfener Straße and pulled the "metal colossus" past the houses This 350 tonne submarine is currently half-way through a four-week journey on German roads and rivers.Operated by the Germany Navy from 1973-2010, the U17 sub is due at @museumtechnik later this month where it will then go on display. pic.twitter.com/vuPDMPhNst „Hallo Chef, ich kann heute leider nicht zur Arbeit kommen.“„Wieso?“„Ein U-Boot hat mich eingeparkt.“„???“ pic.twitter.com/BokKkK40DM Please select at least one newsletter to subscribe to: This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page JAMESTOWN – A local news broadcast finished with a clip of US presidential nominee Donald Trump standing before a giant NRA poster The 2016 Republican candidate gripped a podium’s sides tightly raised a bushy eyebrow before promising to bring back the American dream Lore Hornung set her liverwurst on rye down and pointed excitedly at the television set “The names we had for Hitler are like what we have for Trump,” Hornung said the 84-year-old woman recalled the day Adolf Hitler declared war on Czechoslovakia in 1939 Huddled around the “people’s receiver” radio with her four siblings and parents Hitler’s rhetoric then reminds her of Trump’s promises today to make a country great again “The hateful rhetoric is what is frightening,” she said national pride interchangeably with broken dreams Hornung had no choice but to don the navy blue dress and the brown jacket emblazoned with the Nazi badge “We had a good life before the war and could even afford a maid and a cleaning lady,” Hornung said The day after Hitler’s declaration of war against Czechoslovakia went to all local stores hunting salamis and storable foodstuffs and for the first six months everything was quiet.” “You would be lucky if you got one pair of shoes a year.”  roasted corn and chicory sweetened with beet sugar.  Stylish new clothes were impossible to find International radio broadcasts were replaced by propaganda and speeches by Hitler and party propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as the Nazi juggernaut conquered one sovereign nation after another the paramilitary wing of the Nazi party marched into town brown shirts and riding boots,” Hornung said Young teachers were drafted to the front lines stricter teachers wielding bamboo sticks for punishment replaced them He walked into school in the mornings with a Nazi salute.Living in a town of 2,500 people Hornung wasn’t subjected to the brainwashing techniques many other students her age in larger cities endured and later in the League of German Girls or the BDM were spent primarily crafting wooden elves as Christmas presents and singing nationalistic songs such as the Horst Wessel Once a month her entire school of 18 students – four girls – watched a motion picture featuring German victories and the ever-present propaganda Many were assigned day duties in the fields before returning to a nearby prisoner of war camp Her father rushed to discover what was happening “I had never seen my dad so mad,” Hornung said He said three Jewish families in town were attacked according to the Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust four Jews were killed and a Jewish shop was destroyed in Bad Rappenau no Jews remained; all were deported to the Gurs Concentration Camp in southwestern France At a time when anything but mass conformity was persecuted she wore a bikini to practice diving.  she said she used to climb cherry trees for a snack stole away from Hitler Youth duties to swim my classmates tried to pressure me into going to help pick peas I had already made my plans to go swimming She was worried about what her father would say “Never lie,” Hornung said her father told her Her father was a member of the National Socialist Party for the first year after war broke out “For the first year or so my father supported them and then he left the party and refused to wear his Nazi pin.” When the Allies began bombing campaigns in Germany Hornung and her sisters refused to leave the upstairs open window They knew their small town of 2,500 would be of little interest to the invaders “We would open the window up and start counting how many airplanes and sometimes as many as 60 or 70 were missing.”  Her father would encourage them to go downstairs into the basement for safety but usually end up watching the spectacle with them forcing her and her family to spend the night in their basement as everyone knew an armaments factory was nearby the Allies dropped 1,168 bombs on the city more than 6,500 residents died during a second bombing raid The Americans invaded Hornung’s town first From her kitchen window she watched as a tank parked in her front yard “He asked me if there were any German soldiers “Then he filled his steel helmet with potatoes me meat.’ And then he spoke a lot of English I didn’t understand and took me toward another tank they are going to take me away,’ but he gave me a large tin of ham." while riding her bike she came across chickens She crashed in front of a group of US soldiers “I was so afraid they were going to hit me for running over a chicken,” she said but instead they helped bandage my scuffed arm The tomboy in Hornung refused to let the US soldiers have free rein with local swimming pools local residents were not permitted to swim She and her family had no idea of how Jews had been treated across Europe.  not until the newspapers began reporting on it and then we saw the people coming in Some of them walked for two weeks surviving on what farmers fed them we hardly kept anything to remember those days,” Hornung said just in my hometown with two thousand or so people.” The majority of Germans in her area shared her relief “But there were some then who were like those today crazy about some politicians,” she said Some took advantage of the lack of a functioning government Fortunately Hornung escaped some of the post war hardships by traveling to Switzerland and working as an au pair and did not return until she heard her father was seriously ill At the time Glen was serving in West Germany as a Jeep mechanic who was a private when he set foot in Germany People had nothing to work with.” He too was a self-admitted ‘outlaw,’ and spent his first years in the military drinking and chased Hornung for nearly two-and-a-half years before she agreed to marry him “I lost more stripes than most people ever make,” Glen said.  and has never taken another sip of alcohol since The Hornungs boarded the USS Upshaw from Bremen to New York City in 1956 they moved their family around the world until eventually resettling in Glen’s hometown By Alicia Underlee NelsonMore than 1,000 pro-worker events are planned for Thursday East Grand Forks and Bismarck will host protests… By Prairie Rose Seminolems.prairierose@gmail.com I was a child who walked behind my parents into classrooms and kitchens where teachings lived in the air and settled on my shoulders There’s a silent art auction with music by Low Standards and DJ Star IV By Sabrina Hornungsabrina@hpr1.comIt’s no secret that there are folks among us who make our communities a more vibrant place through both their actions and means of creative expression you could be one of them yourself.… By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comWhat age has been 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Facility Stable Wing Available at Reiterhof Wensing on Dutch/German border Real Estate: Well-Appointed Country House with Extensive Equestrian Facility in the U.K. Rémi Blot will be deployed to enable travel from Sinsheim to Heidenheim and back without needing to change There will be other stops in the Heilbronn region. All normal tickets shall be valid on the train the Baden-Württemberg-Ticket and the Bahncard 100 The address for the visiting parking lot for cars is: "In der Schwende 6 89522 Heidenheim". Due to the congested traffic situation in Heidenheim we recommend leaving the A7 only at exit 117 – Giengen Herbrechtingen. Take exit 117 - Giengen towards Herbrechtingen/Sontheim/Brenz/Dillingen Then turn onto the B19 towards Heidenheim. If you follow the football symbol after entering the town you will easily find the Voith-Arena -> Please follow the street Katzental and keep left at the turn-off to the Voith-Arena in the direction of Mergestetter Reute -> At the pedestrian lights please turn left and then immediately left again The SV Mergelstetten (SVM) sports facilities are already signposted here There are plenty of parking spaces for visiting supporters at the SV Mergelstetten sports facilities From there it is a 10-15 minute walk to the away sector The footpath leads along the street "Mergelstetter Reute" to the "Baseball Ballpark" entrance or the FCH training grounds "Heerackerweg" Pass the Baseball Ballpark and walk down the hill on the right for about 500 metres until you reach the away sector of the Voith-Arena Fan buses and small buses shall park directly at the entrance to the away block via the 'Baseball Ballpark' or the FCH training grounds 'Heeräcker' (see signs) The best bet is to enter the following address in your navigation system: "Heerackerweg 23 follow the narrow road until you arrive directly at the away block Security guards will direct you to the parking spaces The stadium will open 120 minutes prior to the game Payment is exclusively 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