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| We really liked Munich. We stayed on the outskirts of the city in an affordable hotel and took the tram a few stop to the center of things. |
One of Munich's most famous landmarks, The Walking Man, will soon be 10 years old.
If this giant figure were actually walking it would have circled the Earth 21½ times by now.
The Walking Man was created by the American artist Jonathan Barofsky.
Barofsky has exhibited numerous other giant walking figures all over the world including Berlin, Frankfurt, Strasbourg, Tokyo, Seoul, and New York.
Curiously, Barofsky also spent 7 years of his life counting. Yes, counting. Sequentially, from one towards infinity. He wrote down the numbers in series across pieces of paper. The 1976 exhibit was a tall stack of sheets with the numbers 1 to 3,227,146. Apparently he still spends a few hours a week counting. Art, or compulsive disorder?
If this giant figure were actually walking it would have circled the Earth 21½ times by now.
The Walking Man was created by the American artist Jonathan Barofsky.
Barofsky has exhibited numerous other giant walking figures all over the world including Berlin, Frankfurt, Strasbourg, Tokyo, Seoul, and New York.
Curiously, Barofsky also spent 7 years of his life counting. Yes, counting. Sequentially, from one towards infinity. He wrote down the numbers in series across pieces of paper. The 1976 exhibit was a tall stack of sheets with the numbers 1 to 3,227,146. Apparently he still spends a few hours a week counting. Art, or compulsive disorder?
We walked by this guy several times and the girls delighted in running around and screaming as if he was going to step on them.
Our first day was rainy, so we, like the all families in Munich, went to the Deutsches Museum.
It is the Museum of Science and Technology. It is an enormous museum and we just explored a fraction of it. There are miles of tunnels in the mining area showing you what different kinds of mines look like.
It is the Museum of Science and Technology. It is an enormous museum and we just explored a fraction of it. There are miles of tunnels in the mining area showing you what different kinds of mines look like.
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| Lil on the hamster wheel. |
They have a big children's museum area and our girls could have stayed there all day.
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| Sylvia inside the enormous guitar. |
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