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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN: The Vasa Ship Museum

Easily accessible by Stockholm's pedestrian ferry system, the Vasa Ship Museum is a both fascinating and fun slice of history. Much of...

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN: The old town as guide to history up to the 19th Century

In geographic terms, what we now see on the map as Sweden was a relatively late arrival in Europe. For more than a hundred thousand years...

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY

Like a lot of Rhine cities, Düsseldorf was a border region in Roman times, with Germanic tribes on the eastern side of the river and...

KUNSTPALAST DÜSSELDORF: Glass Art

The Kunstpalast has an entire wing dedicated to glass art, and has one of the finest glass collections in the world. The Glasmuseum...

KUNSTPALAST DÜSSELDORF: Paintings, Sculpture, and Mixed Media

(A separate post on the Kunstpalast's collection of glass art can be found here.) The Kunstpalast Düsseldorf is just one of the city's...

METTMAN, GERMANY: Neanderthal Museum

Less than an hour by train from Düsseldorf, Germany (a separate post on which is here), near the town of Mettman, is one of the most...