The great baroque composer and impresario Georg Friedrich Händel was born in Halle in the year 1685. His birth house and several adjoining buildings have been nicely renovated and now form the Händel House and Music Museum of the City of Halle, along with the Center for Händel Research. In the nineteenth Read More …
This Art Nouveau building from the year 1899 was originally built for the “Old England” department store. After the store moved out some seventy years later, the building stood empty for a long time and must have been quite an eyesore in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. In recent years Read More …
When I bought my ticket for the Vienna Art History Museum (KHM = Kunsthistorisches Museum), I was told that the ticket was also valid for admission to the three departments of the museum that were located across the street in the Neue Burg (“New Castle”). To find the entrance to the Read More …