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2025-07-17 01:01
in Computers, Museums, Sciencemuseums, Uk
This was a surprise in Cambridge, but maybe shouldn't have been given that Acorn/ARM was founded there and responsible for a sizeable portion of computer history.
One huge highlight was the wall computer chip that a single engineer built and that was running, showing all its insides:
After seeing Teamlabs in Tokyo, I learned that Arte Museum was a competitor from Korea, and while it wasn't quite as impressive as Teamlabs in Tokyo, it was still very impressive and fun visual museum:
Teamlab Borderless in Tokyo (Mori Building), is simply amazing. Frist, you need to know that it books out weeks in advance, so this is something you have to book before you go to Japan, or waste a lot of time to hope and get a last minute cancellation, but your odds are going to be low. I had to do it the hard way, I do not recommend that :)
It took a while to find the building museum at the basement of a building, but found it eventually:
One inside, it was very nice:
The very impressive hanging LED room:
And the Tea Room was simply amazing. That was beautiful and magical at the same time:
Summary of Instagram Videos:
Long story short, absolutely recommended, book early.
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2024-05-02 01:01
in Greece2024, Monuments, Museums
The Panatheanic Stadium was rebuilt for the 2004 greece olympics, and it does look quite good. Much better than the original site at Olympia which wasn't very stadium-like by our current standards :)
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2024-05-02 01:01
in Greece2024, Monuments, Museums
Day #2 in Athens was to go through museums, and of course Acropolis Museum was a major one to see. It was very well built and layed out, and looked well done. It was nowhere close in size, but it was Louvre quality.
storing black powder and ammunition there during the war
turned out to be a big mistake and responsible for most of the damage seen today
The 2nd of the 2 major museums in Athens is indeed the Archeological Museum. It's a bit outside the main town area and unfortunately due to orthodox easter that week, it was only half open, which was pretty disappointing (it was not a national holiday, just not enough staff showed up for work to staff all the rooms, sigh...)
We was available of the collection, though, was first rate: